Heart of Kindness

We made this heart in time for Valentine's Day. My residents had great fun painting the seperate panels and when we put it all together they were amazed. We laminated each panel before glueing it together to give it stability. We are not allowed to put things on the walls, so we hung it from the ceiling. Everything thought it was lovely. What do you think? X

My group loved this activity - each person completed their piece independently using their own ideas and ability, and they were thrilled to see how the pieces fitted together to make a collaborative art work. They were all so pleased to point out which bit of the heart they’d completed.

Thank you for your praise Maria I am so glad this worked out for you and your residents enjoyed it

Hi
I am a health care assistant and i work in a day hospital as an activity co-ordinator. I joined this web site in may and i have to say i think it is brilliant. The heart of kindness is just a brilliant activity to do over a period of three to four weeks. We did ours by using crepe paper rolling it up into small balls and gluing them onto paper. we stuck all of the pieces together onto a black background we put red crepe paper onto the edges of the heart and filled all of the white spaces in with different colours it turned out lovely. we found this a great group activity for reminiscing and it was very therapeutic. All in all every patient and staff found this activity wonderful. Thank you Golden carers keep up the great work. Well Done.

Lorna

We did this this for mothers day with patterned pages they enjoyed doing it and just loved the end result. We put crepe paper frill round and decorated it with flowers. Size of pattern was great.

We also completed the heart with decorative ribbons ,lace, printed papers to make a very pretty heart. All residents that participated in this activity was delighted with their efforts. Found this activity provided achievable goals and a great small group activity. We used as part of decoration for our Mothers Day High Tea. Agree with Alison the size of heart is good size.

We completed our heart with the pattern panels, really looks good. Also asked the group to give us words of kindness which we put around the outside of the heart.

Good size, for everyone to see.