We have been very busy creating our Christmas craft barn orders: decopauge Christmas themed bottles, frosted candle jars and Christmas gift labels. We also took part in creating a piece for the E-card Christmas card. We used recycled materials to create “Santas window” and used other pieces of cardboard and polystyrene to
On Friday 10th December and Tuesday 14th December the Centre held 2 Christmas quizzes via zoom and we where joined by our friends from the Residential home and the Nursing Home. Friday’s quiz was great fun we had 4 teams taking part: Santa’s little helpers ( Blackstone) The Reindeers– ( Music Room)
During the month of December we really enjoying taking part in various different Christmas activities. Some of this years activities included: Making a Christmas tree decoration out of milk bottle lids which was then used for the company e-card Making handmade personalised Christmas cards Christmas Crafts for the Craft Barn Christmas bingo
Travelling to and from the Centre we enjoy seeing the swans on the local Broadwater/towpath. We thought this would make an interesting choice to do a mini project on so we could learn some facts and info on swans. Did you know a swan can fly up to 60mph and has around
The music room/gallery have been taking part in some household management tasks recently in line with their chosen outcomes set at their reviews. John, Corrine, Linda and Rosemary chose a worksheet to match the correct items needed to complete the household tasks. Everyone enjoyed taking part in the cut, stick and matching
The clients finished the last of the 6 week art therapy course run by Nikki. We created affirmation books, using a wide range of design methods including, dying paper with coloured tissue paper, and experimenting with different ways of applying paints like using string rather than a brush. We all thoroughly enjoyed
This week’s class at Aghalee Village Hall and Empathy Creations we completed a worksheet on what makes us cross/upset/angry and pushes our buttons and different coping strategies to help with these. Continuing with the button theme we made small Christmas wreaths by threading buttons onto wire and shaping them. We also used
Week 3 of our art therapy course at Aghalee Village Hall we talked about our favourite types of music and how to incorporate this into art. We listened to a piece by Beethoven and a piece by Chopin and drew one line on the page to re-present the music we listened to-
The 3 groups at the Centre have thoroughly enjoyed making a mask for Halloween. During the last key group meeting the Blackstone group thought it would be great fun to make masks for Halloween with a prize for the best mask in each group. We then asked Jenny and a few clients
Week 2 the group did work on the power of crystals, and the Tree of Life. We discussed our birthstone colours, and who/what is important in our lives to help us grow and nurture. We then had great fun making our tree of life brooches by bending and twisting wire and adding
Coming into Autumn brings some of our favourite weather , stormy and windy! Whilst some of us prefer the sunshine, snow or rain… We decided to do a project on the weather and the different types of weather that we see through the different months of the year. We researched why different
The Blackstone group have started a 6 week Art Therapy course run by Nikki ( Empathy Creations) Funded by Aghalee Village Hall . We started off the first workshop by completing a worksheet on the colour wheel, the importance of colour around us including primary, secondary colours, warm and cool colours, and
