And in February we made birthday cards

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Continuing to work through this year's craft projects

In October we made jam jar lanterns and paper pumpkins

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Our second December project was painting wooden stars.

We use acrylic paint pens which makes it much easier for the residents

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Need to find a better background than our pale walks but here are 3 types of paper snowflake/star that we'll be making in the Care Homes this month

I wanted to get a picture before they get crumpled in transit

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Had a trial run today of making paper pumpkins for the craft classes
Used strips of Halloween. Autumn and coffee themed craft paper with twisted tissue stalk and leaves

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In July we were painting acrylic pendants and making paper sunflowers. We made pompoms for the centre of the flowers

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A few more sheep from this month's classes.

We'll definitely be making pompoms again, the residents have loved them.

I learnt today that the bottle tops from school milk was originally card with a hole for the straw, making them ideal for pompoms

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Useful large square box filled with different sized brown paper mache eggs

140 paper mache eggs for April's craft classes 😵‍💫

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Time to show you some of this week's makes
The pompom sheep have had a great response in the care homes. 🧶

Even those that couldn't join in the making enjoyed the texture of the hanks of yarn and fluffiness of the finished sheep

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3 pompom sheep (in blue, purple and green) and 2 baskets The larger basket has a handle and is made from orange and blue foam The smaller one is made from card and yellow raffia

Sunday afternoon preparing for March's craft classes.

Time for a Spring theme
1st project is pompom sheep and the 2nd basket making

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First week of Scratch Art Bookmarks (with bonus bracelets) completed

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Two bookmarks 1 horizontal rectangle with Simone, a basic flower and two scrolling lines scraped on it The other is an upright sitting cat shape.

And time to prep for February classes

We'll start with some scratch art bookmarks.

As you can see I am a crafter not an artist 😬

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Followed by some bracelets from the second set of classes

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A mix of blue, black and brown beads

A mix of painted wooden beads

2 tubs of rainbow coloured beads, one set is wooden the other coloured glass

A small amount of bubblegum coloured acrylic beads

I've not finished December craft classes but am already preparing for January's.
Some new types of bead as well as old favourites for bracelet making

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And another week of classes over.
I saw the hanging hearts over on Insta this lunchtime and suggested we have a try after completing our trees.
I think they went rather well.

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Sunday craft prep starting early

176 squares cut from 2 x 10m gold & silver wrapping paper

Another 20 squares green paper for Christmas trees and uncountable leaves for wreaths

3 weeks with 6 days of classes. I have to be organised

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Residential Care Craft Classes I've been running craft classes in a set of residential care home classes since 2017. It started with 7 classes a month and currently I run 26 sessions over 14 days at 8 sites. This

I'm on a roll, a brand new post on my craft classes (to replace the ones I deleted at the start of the year)

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Literally bags of stuff for this week's Christmas card making sessions at the care homes
Stickers, ribbons, stencils, paper, pens

All I'll need to do is top up blank cards and envelopes

Followed by some of last week's creations

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Sofa covered in piles of blankets cards, a large plastic box full of Christmas embellishments and topped off with assorted ribbons and a bag of artificial berries

A new care home group starts next week, taking me up to 8 locations, 15 days and 24 classes!

And November is when the Christmas crafting begins with card making.
So it's time for a stock check before I start buying.

Too much for the dining table, this calls for floor space

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Collection of images each of which has a classes worth of poured paint canvases. Resident had their choice from rainbow colours plus white.

Another collection of class images. Cards stencilled with a range of flower, leaf, insect and bird images

Image startd with a simple flower stencil but the resident continued to cover the card with colour. There's a sun, water, soil and greenery aded.

June's Residential Care Home Craft Classes

The first activity was pouring paint with finger painting and general paint squidging going on.

The second was using stencils to decorate cards
I don't normal highlight a specific piece but the final image deserves it
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4 square cards Top left blue flower with stem & leaves onlight blue background Top right Orange flowerhead on light blue background Bottom left bee on yellow background Bottom right flowerhead in mix of blue, green, purple and grey on light blue background

Preparing for June's residential care home craft classes

The original idea (Oct 23) was "Cameo" but I cannot remember what I planned to do! 🤦‍♀️

But cameo = silhouette ➡️ stencil

The residents can work on square coloured card or blank greetings cards

Here's some pen tests

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Time to show what the residents have been crafting this month.
We've had a mix of #Easter projects from colouring, scratch art, string and sewing.
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