Arts & Craft

Easy paper flowers to decorate your facility on all occasions.

Here's a lovely craft activity for St. Patrick's Day.

Lovely wall art for all occasions! Video instructions included.

Here is an activity that offers social opportunity and can make your facility look festive on all occasions.

Create these lovely paper chains to decorate your facility in time for Chinese New Year!

Use your old newspapers to make this beautiful Christmas wreath.Video instructions included!

Christmas themed colouring-in templates to decorate your facility!

These cute fabric angels are easy to make and very attractive to use on the table or mantel piece, windowsill, shelves or to hang from ceiling.

These beautiful wreaths can also be made with corks, large buttons, shells, and unshelled nuts.

Use old cards to make ornaments for your Christmas tree or string them along to make a garland for walls or windows.

There are dozens of ways to make Advent calendars from recycled material. This is just one of them.

Make a few of these lovely doves and place them on your Christmas table as a container for chocolate, cookies and marshmallows.

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Beautiful hats made from paper plates, servettes, wrapping paper, bows, feathers and tule.

This is an easy craft that can be run over 2 craft sessions.

These turkeys can be used as table decorations, or placed on window sills or furniture.

Air Dry clay is a creative and therapeutic craft product suitable for people from 8 to 80 years old. It is easy to shape, decorate and paint; no kilns or ovens are necessary and it does not shrink when drying. It could be given to a volunteer as a gift.

Here are some art templates for World Animal Day

Celebrate Picasso's birthday with some art inspired by Picasso.

Here is a craft activity for Halloween using recyclable materials.

These are easy to make decorations using egg cartons.

Ideal for men, this activity will foster friendship and bring much laughter. It would be helpful if you could find a male volunteer to sit with participants and remind them of different ways to make paper airplanes.

For cereal and seed craft you may use: bird seed, all colors of beans, corn kernels, sunflower seeds, rice, pasta, all colours of lentils, nuts and small pebbles and sand (whatever you have handy) .

Get a few ladies together with a nice cup of tea and teach them how to make these wonderful crafts.

Some artwork templates for June!

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I find this activity very rewarding. Participants can have the pleasure of holding dough in their hands for fun; no need for gloves like when they are cooking.

This is another great craft to do and ideal to decorate your facility for parties or a Spring Festival. Offer lots of decoration options and let participants express themselves artistically.

These are lovely balls to decorate your facility at your annual Summer Ball. These spring balls are very satisfying, rewarding, and fun to make!

Lovely artwork templates including a floral photo frame, butterflies, jar with flowers and a stylized cat.

Another way of making lovely tissue flowers for Mother's Day - video included!

This game is played as the highlight of the party – at both children and adults parties. Video included!

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Here are a couple of easy Easter bonnets for your parade! I have included some templates for the decorations but let your clients express their artistic flair by encouraging them to decorate as they please.

Create and decorate your own banners for special events!

Arts and crafts templates for Easter

Recycle egg cartons and make your facility look festive by hanging these colourful flowers everywhere.

Visual stimulation offers the broadest range of possibilities. The elderly, who may spend long stretches of time in bed due to medical diagnosis, can benefit from bright objects and pictures hanging on their windows. Here is an activity you may engage your able clients to do for those no longer capable of participating actively.

Making mobiles or sun catchers are activities that low care residents can do for frail people in Nursing Homes. Mobiles and sun catchers can act as a visual stimulation to those no longer able to participate in activities. Craft knives are not recommended for elderly participants.

Beautiful hanging sun catchers for any season!

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Lovely decorations for St. Patrick's Day!

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Make it more interesting by having small groups of participants to share in the creation of each Leprechaun; two or three people taking turns in tracing, cutting, gluing and decorating the hat, legs, jacket and vest. You will be amazed by the results!

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These easy percussion instruments will reward you with a happy and very noisy sing-a-long! Remind participants how important percussion instruments are for mankind; African tribes, American Indians, Australian Aborigines, indeed every culture has some sort of percussion musical instrument.

Easy and fun, this activity takes roughly one hour to make. This is an ideal inexpensive gift to make for a volunteer or to offer as a birthday gift.

Here are some templates to be coloured in and decorated for Guy Fawkes Day!

Here are some ideas on how to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night

Make a special Guy Fawkes hat to place on his head!

Stunning hanging decorations for Thanksgiving and other celebrations!

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Create your own beautiful hats to be worn on Melbourne Cup Day!

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Create a fantastic Melbourne Cup piece of art in this activity!

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Beautiful mandala templates to decorate in a relaxing and creative activity

A fun Halloween craft activity using recycled egg cartons.

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Halloween styled table decorations!

Improve dexterity. Provide enjoyment.

To promote interaction and sharing. To enhance self-esteem

Provide stimulation and encourage choices.

To promote friendship. Maintain skills.

These lovely leaves will look great hanging from ceilings, decorating glass windows and walls or made into mobiles for people who spend long periods of time in bed.

Stunning snow-flakes to decorate any room. They are so simple to make and just beautiful.

Help celebrate the oceans rich diversity of life. Have fun by turning a wall in your facility into your own ocean or aquarium.

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To observe cultural dates. To engage residents in reminiscing

Download the 'Happy Easter' letters and have your residents paint and decorate them to create a beautiful banner for your facility!

Lovely Easter baskets you can make with recycled paintings and paper.

Celebrate Mother's Day with beautiful floral decorations with photo centerpieces!

A lovely arts & craft activity for Mother's Day!

To celebrate spring make a 'dream' tree composed of spring flowers and blossoms. This activity includes 8 spring flower templates for you to download. You may also include recycled paper flowers with painted flowers as per the example spring tree above.

A Leprechaun is a devious little troll who is capable of turning into a frog to escape capture. Leprechauns are shoe-makers who dress in suites with waist coats, hats and buckled shoes. Every Leprechaun has a 'pot of gold'. Here is my version of the pot of gold.

St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. His life is shrouded in legend and it is said that on his death bed he urged friends not to lament, but to celebrate his comfortable exit by taking a small drop of something to drink to ease their pain. Legend has it that this is how the Irish have come to love their alcohol!

It's Winter Olympics time! Have fun decorating international flags.

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Cultural observance. Reminiscing.

Take your residents on a fascinating cultural experience – celebrate Chinese New Year!

Australian Aboriginals use plant shoots, Echidna quills and small twigs to paint their dream time stories.

Decorate your facility with these easy to make paper chains.

Celebrate cultural uniqueness and promote friendship and sharing.

Easy and fun to make! Give the bookmarks as souvenirs to friends, staff and relatives.

This is folk art and maybe some of your residents will remember playing with it as a child. Video included!

Maintenance of dexterity. Promote sense of accomplishment.

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Make your own game for Melbourne Cup Celebrations!

Enhance self esteem. Have fun with arts and crafts!

Socialization with peers in a group setting. Sense of accomplishment. Video included!

Potential for reminiscing. Personal satisfaction. Video included!

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Encourage creative expression. Improve dexterity.

VIDEO Instructions included! Make bow ties in a craft session and give it to your male residents on Father’s Day to help celebrate this festive occasion.

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VIDEO Instructions included! Object: maintain social skills and reinforce friendships. Sensory stimulation.

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Improve hand-eye coordination and enhance motor skills

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Hand-eye coordination. Upper body movements (exercise).

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Promote recognition of colours. Develop motor skills.

Versatile and interesting activity. Maintains and improves dexterity.

Enhance spiritual fulfillment. Improve dexterity.

To promote fine motor movements. To have fun!

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Eye-hand coordination practice and fine motor skill exercise