❤ Valentines ❤
As part of our Valentine’s Day work, we focused on ourselves and the importance of Self Love/focusing on ourselves. Clients took part in group chats with their peers, discussing what we thought each others good characteristics are, completed worksheets, created poems and made Valentines day cards, made clay hearts with positive words on them, Valentines […]
Recycled Vases
Clients at the Centre recycled coffee jars to make valentine themed heart vases. We used heart templated to help us create the hearts on our jars. We choose tissue paper to decorate our jars, used lights and flowers to decorate.
Valentines Art Therapy
Over the course of 2 weeks clients enjoyed taking part in a ‘love’ and ‘Valentine’s’ themed art therapy with Nikki Empathy Creations funded by Aghalee Village Hall
Fire Safety
During the week some clients took part in Fire safety Awareness Refresher Training. This gives us the opportunity to refresh and update our current fire safety awareness skills.
Coaster Design
On Friday 31st January. clients enjoyed designing their own coasters. We drew our designs onto a page first and then copied these onto the cork coasters. We used, markers, acrylic pens, paints to make our designs.
Burns Night
Clients at the Centre enjoyed learning about Robert Burns, we typed out facts on him and we listened to songs he created including the very famous ‘Auld Lang Syne’.
Chinese New Year
We enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year, this year is the year of the snake, we made our very own snakes from folded paper.
Blackstone Volcanic Explosion!
We used cardboard do make the base of our volcano. Then we made papermache by tearing up newspapers and adding glue and water into a bowl. When the mache was dry we painted our volcano grey. We then used white vinegar, red food colouring and carbonated soda to make the lava of the volcano. […]
Art Therapy
Today clients enjoyed Art therapy with Nikki funded by Aghalee Village Hall. Nikki discussed information about Chinese New Year and then we painted cat or lantern suncatchers, threaded beads onto wire to hang them up.
Centre Closures for 2025
The Beeches Resource Centre will be closed on the following dates in 2025: New Years Day – Wednesday 1st January St Patricks’ Day – Monday 17th March Easter – Monday 21st, Tuesday 22nd & Wednesday 23rd April Mayday – Monday 5th May Spring Bank Holiday – Monday 26th May July twelfth – Monday 14th July […]