Level: Medium Length: 1 hour + Overview: Personalise your own deck of playing cards. Materials: Pens, pencils, card, scissors. Optional: Stamps, stickers. How: Cut card into 52 equal sized playing cards. Label cards with their suit and number on one side. Decorate the labelled side of the card using illustration, stamping or stickers. Enjoy a game
World Oceans Day Level: Medium Length: 30 - 60 minutes Overview: Create a group or individual collage using scraps of patterned paper for World Ocean Day. Materials: Large sheet of paper, scraps of patterned/newspaper, pencil, scissors, glue. How: Draw the outline of a fish on a large sheet of paper. Participants can cut or tear up paper
Level: Hard Length: 1 - 2 hours Overview: A fun dance session for everyone to take part in. Materials: Music, various props (feathers, hats, scarves etc.), tea and cake. How: Use a wide selection of music from the 40’s to the 00’s and a range of props. You can start the tea dance with a seated
Level: Medium Length: 30 - 60 minutes Overview: Create beautiful three-dimensional bird and butterfly decorations. Materials: Inkjet Printer, acetate for inkjet printer, scissors, stapler, acrylic paints. How: Print 2 copies of each bird or butterfly onto acetate. Cut out the whole of the first copy and just the wings of the second copy. Participants can colour
Level: Easy Length: 30 minutes Overview: Stencilling to create beautiful images to make cards, pictures etc. Materials: Stencils, paper, paints, sponge/paint brush. How: Lay your stencil on your paper in desired position. Use a sponge or paint brush to apply paint. Peel back stencil to reveal your image. You can also print onto fabric. Addition: You
Level: Easy Length: 30 - 60 minutes Overview: Dancing using props to encourage movement. Materials: Music and various props - feathers, balls etc. How: Warm up by throwing and catching an object to get participants engaged. Passing a ball between people, keeping a balloon afloat and blowing feathers to each other. Exercise through dancing to
Level: Medium Length: 30 - 60 minutes Overview: Create a group mosaic. Materials: Thick board, small pieces of tiles or buttons, PVA glue. Optional – grout, spatula and cloth. How: Draw an outline for your mosaic, you can choose a pattern, theme, animal, object, etc. Select your pieces of tile or buttons. Position and glue down. Leave
Level: Medium Length: 30 - 60 minutes Overview: Stitch into hessian to make small decorated pieces. Materials: Wool, strips of fabric, ribbon, embroidery hoops, hessian, scissors, bodkins. How: Choose wool, ribbon and strips of fabric from a wide range of colours. Place hessian in an embroidery hoop. Use blunt bodkins to stitch into hessian, remembering your favourite
Level: Easy Length: 5 minutes + Overview: Non-verbal communication using rhythmic sounds Materials: Table top, drum or percussive instrument if available. How: Sit facing each other with access to a table top or drum. Person 1 makes a sound. Maintaining eye contact person 2 mimics that sound... and so on. If the person makes vocal
Level: Medium Length: 1 - 2 hours Overview: Bring the seaside inside. Materials: Buckets, spades, sand, seashells, starfish, pebbles, picnic blanket, old holiday postcards, ice cream with cones. How: Allow people to explore the sand with their hands and feet. Pass around the objects and postcards, allowing conversation to flow around memories of holidays to the
