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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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Large square cardboard box containing 70 large brown paper mache eggs, the lid is next to it with 70 small eggs
There is a pile of labels (removed from the eggs in front of the boxes

All the eggs have been painted white and are laid out across the table on a sheet of clear plastic

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

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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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

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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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.

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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2 tubs of rainbow coloured beads. One set is painted wood the other coloured glass

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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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 started with a simple flower stencil but the resident continued to cover the card with colour.

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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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

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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A selection of images showing macrame angels and 3d snowflakes
The angels have wooden bead heads and ring halos with brushed out string for the robes and wings
The snowflakes are made from silver wrapping paper

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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