Flowers

Flower printing and pressing.  We'll be painting Hellebores next time, and more flower pressing.

Plans and paper flowers

More xmas crafts

The last two weeks we've been hard at work painting the salt dough xmas tree shapes, making the mincemeat ready for next time, making real holly and ivy streamers and table decorations.

Xmas tree hangings

Started on salt dough angels, father xmas, snowmen and three ships.  Will cook at home and have planned for xmas wreath, a bit of painting and natural streamers for next couple of weeks.  Return of xmas cake (for decorating and biscuits in last week before xmas!

Rangoli Food Art

This week and last week we've been working on making art from food.  We talked about where food comes from - we used a range of fairtrade and locallly sourced foods for the artwork.

Horse racing at KHCCSP

A great day today, racing the horses made by residents at Evergreen!  We put together a quick video/slide show from photos taken.



Next week I'm planning to bring in all three of our children for a visit to Evergreen, maybe start planning for the next swap - residents, parents and children have all suggested interest in music, but how to do?

27th January

Last week we discussed taking pompom activity further.  We decided to make horse puppets for races at the community centre in a couple of weeks.  Also discussed songs they sang as children, and wondered if we could record and share/swap with the children in future.

20th January at KHCCSP

Shared pompoms and had a play.  Great response from children and parents.  I shared photos with Evergreen residents in afternoon - residents pleased with results and enjoyed playing with Freya again.

13th January Workshop Pompoms

In December I brought in some archive film clips of children playing in the 1940s and began discussion about what residents used to do as children.  I also brought along books of stories, artwork and photos of other intergenerational project work I had been involved in, and start to gauge interest in our project.

Today I brought in wool too, and started to see what crafts residents were already familiar with.  Everyone seemed to have heard of corking and had made pompoms, so this seemed to be a good place to start.  We made eight pompoms between us (photos below) and discussed sharing with Freya's friends at Kings Heath Community Centre Stay and Play.

Freya also had fun playing with wool and residents.