My aim is to help keep our elderly and less-abled folk busy and happy! However...many of the crafts and activities will also appeal to all ages and abilities, so do have a browse...Loads of different crafts and quizzes - very easy to find by clicking on category buttons below! Have also introduced some discussion on ACEO Miniature watercolour painting - a new hobby?
Sunday 23 February 2014
Six Printable Birthday Placemats to Colour In!
Make someone's birthday really special - when you lay the table for breakfast or for any other meal or at teatime - print, colour-in and place on the table, one of our Birthday Placemats - right where that special person will be sitting...
Here are 6 Birthday Placemats
Thursday 23 January 2014
Printable Easy Geography Quiz!
Printable Easy Geography Quiz
to test your knowledge of our wonderful world...
In which US State is the Grand Canyon located?
In which city is the statue "Christ the Redeemer" located?
Click on the link to download and print the
20 Easy Geography questions and answers
Want more quizzes???
Have a look at my
Printable Quizzes - eBook - 41 EASY QUIZZES with Answers
Everyone loves a quiz!
Want more quizzes???
Have a look at my
Printable Quizzes - eBook - 41 EASY QUIZZES with Answers
Everyone loves a quiz!
Friday 17 January 2014
Butterflies and Flowers Collage in a Vase!
Following on from making our Collage Calendar, our group made collages of vases of flowers, mounted onto black card. Some were made into calendars by adding a calendar tab and others were just a bright picture to hang on the wall!
Here are some samples of their creations...
Even the least artistic member of the group will end up with a very pleasing picture - on A4 piece of card - cutting, sticking and enhancing with stickers, buttons, ribbon bows etc
Have a go with your groups!
Labels:
A4,
brownies,
butterflies,
buttons,
card,
collage,
craft,
elderly,
elderly craft,
embellishments,
flowers,
kids,
kids craft,
senior carft,
stickers,
vase
Tuesday 31 December 2013
Calendar Collage to make for 2014 - a Tutorial
This Calendar Collage is for any year - so easy to put together and a great deal of fun for your groups.
It is a good idea to have some sort of theme - mine was based around UK, choosing pictures of different people in our country and of course a little map. To finish off, I cut out words I thought were appropriate to the theme...
Your theme could be food (lots to choose from in most magazines!), animals (wild or maybe pet animals), jewellery, hair styles, fashion (clothes or shoes maybe) or celebrities - there will be many more themes that will come to you as you browse through your magazines.
You could also just have a colour theme - say purple and yellow or green and red or black and orange - endless choices here!
So you will need...
Magazines (mine were just Sunday newspaper magazines)
Glue
A4 Paper
A4 Black or other coloured card
Calendar Tab for appropriate year
Ribbon or string (about 15cms)
Putting your Calendar Collage together...
Having got all your cut-outs together, stick them first onto an A4 piece of ordinary paper from your printer. Overlapping them will give you a cleaner finish so decide on the order of sticking, before you start...
Then when dry, cut around your pictures, so no white paper is showing.
Stick this collage onto an A4 sheet of dark card (I used black) and attach you calendar tab and then add a loop of ribbon or string at the top, for hanging.
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