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Colouring stained glass bookmarks were the 2nd project to start in June but the 1st to finish.
You'll see one lady did her bookmark and then expanded it into a bigger picture

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Forgot to post May's classes 😳
For the first time in 6 years we used glitter, it wasn't too messy.
And then the old favourite, decoupage

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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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Time to start preparing for April's classes.
140 eggs in 4 sizes: 3, 4, 5 & 6 cms.
All have had a coat of gesso, I'll check tomorrow for any missed spots and then bag 10 for each of the 14 classes.
They'll be decorated with marker pens and stick on crystal tiles

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Finishing off this month with a few pics of our Easter baskets
These were incredibly popular, I had to order more kits!

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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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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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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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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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Yikes forgot to post some January craft class pictures

First up some colouring in of doodles

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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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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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Preparing for June's 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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A selection of the planters, tote bags and pictures made in April's Care Home Craft Classes.

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A selection of the planters, tote bags and pictures made over in April's Care Home Craft Classes

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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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Part 2 of this month's Residential Care Home Craft Classes is making birthday cards.
I've a big
stack of blank cards, restocked the washi tape, got a mix of felt tips & pencils, various stickers and embellishments.
Can't think of anything I've forgotten

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A selection of the foam clay pots made this month in the care home craft classes.

Tomorrow we start on Birthday cards. It's another new project so 🤞

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The new (increased) craft class program starts at the residential care homes tomorrow.

We'll begin the year adding colour by filling the vases we decoupaged last year with tissue paper flowers.

Here are the samples I've made

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Last job of the month's admin is putting together the pictures from the Residential Care Home Craft Classes.

Here's a few of the snowflakes/angels we made in December

Got a jam packed year ahead of us with TWENTY FOUR projects planned

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I still have one more October class to go but this is a good day to start the annual process of unpacking and dividing Christmas card embellishments for November's residential care homes craft classes.

I REALLY should get a staple remover 🙄

I used to divide the embellishments into poles for individual classes but now we're up to 14 I simplify it into week 1 & 2.

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Today starts with tidying away last month's craft resources and getting ready for this month’s classes.

Autumn door hangers (wreaths aren't a popular word in a care home)

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A day of preparation for next week's craft classes.

Making pipe cleaner stamen of this morning and cutting out flower inners this afternoon

With these and last week's there is an actual gap in my craft cupboard!

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