Antiquing

A Good Old Rummage... 

It's always exciting to find something of value amidst the unwanted junk at a car boot sale – perhaps a toy car exactly the same as the one you used to drive along the wall in your back garden, or a china marble you won in battle with the marble champion at school. It's easy to bring that to the care home with a little help from the local second hand shop.

Speak to your local Cancer Research or charity shop owner and ask if you can borrow some items for the day for a small donation. Few are likely to refuse the local Care Home.

Gather up items which you feel would be of interest to residents – common ornaments, shoe kits, types of crockery – anything which is likely to have had its place in a home forty or fifty years ago.

When you get back to the home, lay everything out on a table,, jumbled like a car boot sale and invite residents to have a rummage. (Anything that anyone wants to buy, can – as long as the proceeds go back to the Charity Shop:)

This is an activity that's always different, depending on what you've picked up. Residents will enjoy doing what we all love doing – and why car boot sales continue to draw in the crowds on an early Sunday morning.