You’ve got to be yolk-ing: Selston care home residents share their best Easter gags to mark National Humour Month
Nearly 300 residents from a Nottinghamshire care group came together to reveal their favourite Easter-related gags for this month’s National Humour Month – with several of the residents delivering some of their favourites to local nursery children.
Care residents from Wren Hall in Selston, part of Church Farm Care group, teamed up with children from the neighbouring Little Wrens Nursery for a cross-generational laughter session, which saw residents and children deliver one liners to one another.
The joke telling, which helped bridge the generational gap, came about following a poll amongst Church Farm Care, which saw the almost 300 residents who reside within the group put forward their favourite Easter-related gags.
Wren Hall residents then went on to deliver the favourites to the younger generation.
The jokes included:
How does the Easter Bunny travel around? – In a hare-plane!
What do you get if you pour hot water down a rabbit hole? – Hot cross bunnies!
What do you call a rabbit who tells good jokes? – The Easter Funny!
What do you call a mischievous Easter egg? – A practical yolker!
What kind of music does the Easter Bunny like? – Hip-hop!
How does the Easter Bunny stay fit? – Egg-sercise!
Why did the Easter egg go to school? – To get egg-ucated!
Why did the egg fall asleep? – Because it was eggs-hausted!”
Alongside the comedy chatter, the children and residents also helped bake a batch of delicious Easter cakes to help enhance the session.
Sheila Parker, an 87-year-old resident, shared her enthusiasm, saying: "I always enjoy it when the children come round, we play all sorts of games, have snacks and make nice things, they bring so much joy to us all."
Lucy Atkinson, co-owner of Church Farm Care, added: “The family members who live in our homes are wonderful characters and our care team enjoys having fantastic laughs with them.
"So, with April marking National Humour Month, we thought we’d cement some of their funniest one-liners and share them with the children from Little Wrens for some inter-generational laughter.”
“We love tying our activities to awareness days and creating themed sessions for those in our homes, and inter-generational activities are always a hit, so bringing the children in to celebrate both Easter and National Humour Month ticked all the boxes.”