Thank you to Cheryl Smith & Zoe Dummett for volunteering to facilitate our arts and craft activities at short notice this week. The group decorated tote bags, which they said they will use when they go shopping. Arts and crafts are a fantastic outlet for self expression, patience, concentration, planning, mental health, and wellbeing.
At Tuesday’s crafts session (our first of 2024) with Cheryl Smith from the Parent Network Community Forum, members made Valentine’s trees and love heart wooden plaques. It was great to get back to what the members love. Thank you to Zoe for volunteering at this group.
Yesterday was our final crafts session of 2023, during which the group made Christmas decorations. Thank you to Cheryl and Zoe from the Parent Network Community Forum for sharing their crafting skills throughout the year – they have assisted the group in crafting some great personalised keepsake. Our sessions have brought individuals out of isolation and loneliness, created new friendships and improved mental health, and we’re looking forward to seeing what everyone crafts next year.
Following the craft session, we held our office Christmas party, when the group enjoyed some delicious food and cake, and were visited by Santa who handed out selection boxes to everyone.
How awesome are these Christmas platters designed by our members? Thank you to Cheryl Smith Zoe Dummett from The Parent Network Community Forum for sharing your crafting skills with our focus group members.
Last week at at our crafts session our members designed their own Christmas stockings using stencils, felts and metallic pens. Thanks to Cheryl Smith from The Parent Network Community Forum for getting everyone into the Christmas spirit; the stockings look great.
Tuesday afternoon marked the beginning of our Christmas Craft sessions, and Caerphilly People First members and volunteers made a start on making their own advent calendars. We used toilet roll holders and stapled them together to make a Christmas tree shape and covered them in tissue paper. At the next craft session we will continue decorating the trees and filling them with goodies ready for December.
Thanks to Cheryl Smith and Zoe Dummett from the Parent Network Community Forum for facilitating the group.
At yesterday’s craft session our members and volunteers created wall art and had some spooky Halloween photos taken. Thanks to Cheryl from the Parent Network Community Forum for running the session. Crafts sessions usually occur every other Tuesday but we have an extra session next week, so if you would like to join us from 12:30pm onwards, please get in touch.
At last week’s crafts session our members had a go at making spooky lanterns with our volunteer Cheryl Smith from The Parent Network Community Forum. Check out their spooktacular work in the pics below.
Thank you to Cheryl Smith from the Parent Network Community Forum for our spooktacular get Crafty session today. Our members had fun making masks and decorations to use at our Halloween party on 27th October. Our next craft session will be on Tuesday 24th October from 12.30pm. Please contact enquiries@caerphillypeoplefirst.org if you would like to join us.
Yesterday our focus group took part in an Arts and Crafts session with Cheryl and Zoey from the Parent Network Community Forum. We made Halloween paper chains and coloured in Halloween templates ready for the trunk or treat event with the Parent Network in Morrisons underground car park on Monday 30th October. Our next craft session will be Tuesday 10th October, and if you’d like to book your place please contact Ffion on 07488 350518.
