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!
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! |
Do send photos of your cards and crafts in to put up in Our Gallery for everyone to share...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Printable General Knowledge Quiz - All About Numbers!
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Time for another quiz I think...
Thirty questions - all the answers are numbers...No not maths! Just general knowledge questions. Things we all come across and work with, in our daily lives - have a go with your group or maybe see how many you know, best over a cup of tea!
Here is the link - can be printed out...
Quiz - All About Numbers!
If you enjoy this one, then do have a look at my Quiz eBook
Printable eBook - 41 Easy Quizzes
Perfect for winter days to keep the mind ticking along...!
Friday, 11 October 2013
Wall Mural - Autumn!
Our Art and Craft group at Mencap (Braintree) made this lovely Autumn Wall Mural - inspired by Shaun, our group leader.
Having decided we wanted a lake and a few hills in the Mural, it then followed that we needed to put in Nessie - the Loch Ness Monster...!
So this became a Scottish Autumn Wall Mural complete with Loch Ness, Nessie and don't you love the Sunset!
The whole background is made from torn pieces of coloured tissue paper glued onto large sheets of white paper. (the whole mural is about 4 x 8 foot) the trees were painted on white paper and then cut out and glued on. All the leaves were made by painting real leaves on the underside with poster paint and then pressing them onto white paper and when dry, cutting them out. All the other creatures and footballer (!) were then coloured-in and stuck on as well...
It took us three afternoons to put together but we were thrilled with the result...
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