Arts are very essential in our daily lives since they inspire and delight us. They have many important benefits to the community and to our health. Arts activities in social care institutions is therefore prioritised by the management of care homes to ensure that the residents benefit from the improved quality of life and well-being achieved through art. The management understands that engaging the residents in arts helps them spend their time enjoyably and purposefully doing things that give pleasure and meaning. Many people in the UK are lovers of art and not organising arts activities in care homes is denying the majority of residents a right to be happy. Through arts, the care home is able to provide excellent care and quality of life as arts touches on many attributes such as value of active ageing, creativity, choice and control, interdependence and independence, confidence, emotional stimulation, identity, lifelong learning, intellectual fulfilment and many more. Art is life.

Art classes for care home residents focus on the following activities:
1. Singing
Learning sessions normally start with a song to welcome each and every person individually and involves gentle movements to stimulate the body further. The residents become more awake and alert, awakening their long-term memory through familiar music. Singing transforms the mood of the participants and also the way other people understand them. Other benefits of singing such as preventing depression by use elements which reassure, inspire, surprise, support and re framing negative life view points into positive ones lead to sustained happiness of carers and residents. The singing sessions can be held three times a week, lead by a professional musician. Song books are also given to participants to make sure the songs are well known.
2. Story telling and reciting poems
Telling stories reciting poems champions the power of imagination, team work and creativity. A well organised program set up to retell stories of past heroes and heroines engages carers and residents in listening and speaking skills that greatly improve their memory and expression of ideas and emotions. For children, story telling helps them learn and appreciate history and poetry greatly enhances creativity and articulation of ideas. The residents develop a strong sense of friendship when they sit together and give stories to each other. The session takes a hour or two and the residents are later engaged in a social session over a cup of coffee or tea. This brings a joyful atmosphere that no one would wish to miss.

3. Textile work, embroidery, knitting and sewing classes
This is preferred by many ageing ladies than men and is a great revival of the skills that they had earlier in life. Teaching ageing care home residents on textile work involves a lot of patience since they might not be fast to learn, but they surely keep themselves busy thus alienating any loneliness even when they are alone. These activities improves their creativity.
4. Painting, stone painting, drawing, card making and other visual arts.
This activities engage participants in expressing the beautiful ideas in their minds to something visual. This makes them very happy and classes are held by a professional to ensure the passion for painting is translated to joy for the care home residents. 
Other activities incorporated in art classes for care home residents include film making, photography, animation, dancing, drama, staging exhibitions, performances and shows, cake making and jewellery making.
Generally, art classes for care home alfreton residents aim at improving levels of physical fitness, general health and imparting a beneficial good feeling to all participants.