Busy Saturday in the playroom! Ice cream sensory play this morning with 'taste safe' sand, which changed to construction this afternoon with diggers! And wooden butterfly decorating with all the messy craft 🖍🎨🦋🍦🏖

👩‍⚕️Celebrating International Nurses Day👨🏼‍⚕️ The children on the ward have been loving our nurses role play area this weekend 🌟 Thank you to all the nurses on the ward for always working hard and giving our patients the best care 🩷

May is #MentalHealthAwareness month 🩷 Be kind to yourself 💜 Check in on others 💚 Communicate and talk 💛 Celebrate your progress ❤️ Remember it's okay to not be okay 🩵 Surround yourself with what makes you happy

The children have loved playing in the animal sensory tuff tray today! Taste safe sand, weetabix, rice and water 💧⏳️🦒🐷

Our lovely student Sofia bought the playroom some new toys to say thank you today as she had her last shift with us ❤️ Thank you so much and we wish you all the best on the rest of your nursing journey 🥰

Thank you SO much to the Boffey family who have donated these amazing items to us from our Amazon wishlist! We are so grateful for your generosity ❤️

⭐️ If anyone has any unwanted crayons or pencils our lovely colleagues in PRH A&E would be very grateful to take them for the children and young people in their department ⭐️

💫International day of play💫 "Play in hospital provides normality & positive experience during an unfamiliar & stressful time, whilst reducing fear & anxiety of hospital procedures" Thank you to our play team across PRH & RSH for helping provide a better hospital experience 🙌

One of our patients loved lottie so much this week that she drew a picture of her for us 🥰

Happy Fathers day to all the dads, step dads, uncles, grandads and all other special father figures in your lives 💙 photo backdrop and props in the playroom for anyone wanting a photo today. The Euros will be showing in the Adolescent room all day! ⚽️

A patient on the ward wanted to do a darts competition with staff today 🎯 but nobody was beating Dani's score of 270! Well played everyone 👏

Our next Young People’s Engagement session takes place this Saturday morning at PRH! If you are 11-17 and would like to join us drop us a Whats App message 💬

Ward 19 supporting England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

There is a patient currently under the playteam who needs an NG tube passing as part of his treatment. He is very anxious about this and we are hoping this prep doll we have made will make it easier to explain and process ✨️☺️

Quick cheese break for our PAT dog Lottie before continuing her round on the ward! 🐶🧀

Thinking of all those affected by the recent events in Southport and keeping the staff at 🏥 Alder Hey 💙 in our thoughts as they continue to work extremely hard 🤍

Some of the children have been busy doing Olympic ring painting this morning! 🎨 🖌

Thank you to Wrekin Juniors Lions who visited us on Sunday at the start of their fundraiser! Thank you for thinking of us and we wish you all the best for the season ahead ⚽️

Wishing Lottie, our Pets As Therapy dog, a very happy 8th birthday! 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈