Saturday, 15 March 2014

Easter Bunting to Celebrate Spring! Tutorials!












We made our Easter Bunting using different shapes as well as the traditional triangular flags. The Easter Eggs you see were made following this great tutorial
Paper Strip Easter Egg  by Merrilee.

We also printed bunny pictures (loads to be found on Google) which were coloured-in and stuck on.

Below, the black flags have been decorated with Easter die cuts (found on eBay) and pom poms.

The chicks we bought ready-made and made them a "nest" with two small paper plates. See here how to do this.


For more Easter ideas click on the Easter button at the top of my Blog - have fun with your groups...

Friday, 28 February 2014

Printable Quiz - Fill in the Gaps - Capital Cities of the World...




This quiz is about Capital Cities of the World - but to help you along I have given you some of the letters in each of the city names. 




 Here is the link - Quiz and Answers!

Capital Cities of the World


If you want more quizzes for your groups have a look at my eBook - 


Loads of fun, with a variety of Quiz subjects...

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!
 

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!

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.





Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Three New Printable Christmas Placemats




Here are some more Christmas Placemats to colour-in and use to decorate your Christmas table - either on the day or at your group's Christmas Party!

Three Christmas Placemats

If you want more of my designs to choose from, just enter Christmas Placemats in the Search Box (top right)

They are all ready to print and colour in - whatever the age group, just doing this together will get everyone into the Festive mood...

Still lots to do?? If you want a Christmas Countdown just click on this link...

Friday, 8 November 2013

It's Time to Make Christmas Cards!


We had a really good afternoon at Mencap Art and Craft Group, in Braintree, yesterday. Everyone very excited about the start of the Festive Season. We made our first batch of Christmas cards, using a few ready made (from eBay!) embellishments as well as cutting out our own backing paper and Christmas Trees.

Click here for the Christmas Tree Template

A bit of tinsel, ribbon or rick rack and "Merry Christmas"  and we were very happy with our resulting cards - made with much discussion as to who the recipients would be...

Tea, making Christmas Cards and lots of chat and laughter!

More Cards!

Enjoy making your own Christmas Cards with your groups!

Do send photos of your cards and crafts in to put up in Our Gallery for everyone to share...