Length: 45 minutes Level: Complex Overview: Add your lyrics to this song. Materials: Speaker, paper and pen. How: Listen to the song ‘Little April Showers’. Encourage participants to create their own lyrics to the song. Write them down and try to sing together. You can also use your homemade shakers from 24 April to shake in time to the
Length: 2 hours Level: Medium Overview: Watch this classic film in the comfort of your own home. Materials: The film, a large screen or projector, comfortable seats, popcorn. How: Gather your group in front of a large screen, pull the curtains shut and make the occasion special with some tasty popcorn. Enjoy singing along to these well-known songs.
Length: 1 hour Level: Easy Overview: The beauty of fresh flowers can be preserved by flower pressing, and used at a later date for cards or other projects. Materials: Flowers, heavy books and paper. How: Pick flowers, or use cut flowers. Place the flowers into a folded piece of paper and slot into a book. Weigh down with other books or
Italian National Day Level: Easy Length: 30 minutes Overview: Create your own pizza flavours for Italian National Day. Materials: Pizza bases, a variety of toppings. How: Apply tomato passata to the pizza base and cover with your favourite toppings. Cook in the oven. Enjoy the delicious flavours of Italy... Buon appetito! Addition: Set the scene
Level: Medium Length: 30 - 60 minutes Overview: Marking on a map where people are from, to inspire conversation. Materials: Large map of the UK and further if you have participants for anywhere else, drawing pins or marker pens. How: Ask people to locate their birthplace with a pin on the map. Discussion of birthplace,
Level: Medium Length: 1 hour Overview: Create beautiful canvases to connect together. Materials: Canvases (you can also use paper/card), paints. How: Choose a theme - flowers, birds, nature. Draw the outline of the image, with the canvases together. Then each participant can paint their canvas individually. Connect the canvases back together to see the full picture. Display
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
