We had such a lovely morning together! 🥰 Everyone enjoyed a warm breakfast 🥐☕ and then got stuck into some gorgeous Christmas crafts 🎄🎅🎁 There was plenty of chatting, laughing, and learning something new 💬✨ The crafts looked amazing and the room was full of festive cheer! Groups like this make such a difference ❤️ They help people:
⭐ Feel less isolated ⭐ Build friendships ⭐ Learn new skills ⭐ Boost confidence ⭐ Have fun together
Thank you to everyone who joined us — you made the morning special 🤗 Can’t wait for the next one! 🎨💖
Yesterday our members enjoyed another fantastic craft session with Deb and Louise from Multiply. They had a brilliant time designing their own Christmas trees and making festive decorations. 🎨🎅✨ Everyone got creative, learned something new, and made beautiful pieces to take home. We love seeing the confidence and smiles these sessions bring! 💚😊 Great work everyone — your Christmas crafts looked amazing! 🎁🌟
Yesterday our members enjoyed another brilliant Christmas craft session with Louise and the team from Multiply! 🎅🧶 They made the cutest Christmas gonks out of wool, and everyone did an amazing job. ❤️
We all enjoyed a lovely cuppa ☕ and some tasty pastries 🥐 while chatting and socialising together. It was a warm, festive morning filled with fun and creativity! ⭐💬 Don’t forget — our last craft session is next Tuesday! 🎁✨
What a brilliant day at our Meet and Make sessions yesterday! Our members made gorgeous snow globes ❄️⛄ — and they looked absolutely amazing! Our members did a great job learning something new and getting creative. 💙✨
🕙 Session Times:
Morning: 10am – 12pm
Afternoon: 1pm – 3pm
Location: Bargoed YMCA
⭐ How we made our snow globes:
1️⃣ Fill a clean jar with water 2️⃣ Add glitter or fake snow ✨ 3️⃣ Glue a small decoration or figure to the inside of the lid 4️⃣ Screw the lid on tightly 5️⃣ Give it a shake and watch the magic happen! ❄️💙
A huge thank you to Deb and Louise for another fantastic Multiply session 😊 Everyone had fun, learned new skills, and made something special to take home. Can’t wait for next week!
✨ What a fantastic day at Caerphilly People First! ✨ We started the morning with our Breakfast and Belonging session 🥐☕ where everyone enjoyed a warm cuppa, fruit, pastries, crumpets, and a good chat.
This was followed by our very first craft session delivered by Deb and Louise from Multiply 🎨✂️ Our Meet and Make with Multiply sessions will run for the next six weeks with two groups:
🕙 10am – 12pm 🕐 1pm – 3pm
Today everyone enrolled and introduced themselves. The theme was to pick someone in the room and draw a portrait of them! 🖼️👀
Both our morning and afternoon members did an amazing job — and there were plenty of giggles with a fun game of “Guess Who?” once we revealed the finished portraits! 😂🎭 📸 Check out our designs below and see if you can guess who’s who! A big thank you to everyone who joined us today — what a brilliant start to the project! 💛🙌
On Monday we had a lovely visit from Sarah from Multiply to gather feedback on our recent craft sessions. Our members shared how much they enjoyed the sessions – they found them relaxing, educational, and a great way to socialise with each other. They loved making spring wreaths, bracelets, bookmarks, plaques for their bedroom walls, and lots of other fun creations!
A huge thank you to Sarah and the amazing team from Multiply for making these sessions possible, and we hope to see more sessions in the future!
Yesterday, our members got creative, making wooden plaques for their bedroom doors and beautiful spring wreaths to brighten up their homes. We also had a blast playing bingo with the Multiply group at Bargoed YMCA — lots of laughs, friendly competition, and maybe even a few lucky winners!
That wraps up our craft sessions for now, but don’t worry, we’re back next week at 10:30am to chat about travel training on the train! If you fancy joining in, feel free to pop along. See you there!
Whilst I was in Caerphilly People First on Tuesday, me, Ffion Poole, Gethin Chamberlain, Rees Powell & others had a session of making wind chimes with Multiply.
When we all turned up, the materials were already on the table, ready for us to start designing our own creative wind chimes. To start designing them, we had to use PVA/super glue to cover the piece of wood. After we’d done that we used the coloured buttons to create a pattern.
Once everyone had finished designing their own colourful pattern with the buttons, I started making my wind chime. Before I started making it, I had a choice between buttons and coloured beads, whichever one I wanted to use for my wind chime.
This is a report by Morgan Jones, volunteer and Head Gardener:
When I was in Caerphilly People First yesterday, me Ffion, Gethin Chamberlain, Rees Powell and others had a crafts session with Multiply. Whilst I was there, I was given a piece of paper and a pair of scissors so I could cut it down to size, ready for when it was time to make my leather bracelet.
Using the piece of paper I was given, I had to write down either my name, or something else on there. I decided to do my initials. Once I’d done that, out of all the colours of leather that was on the table I chose red as it’s my favourite colour. I cut it to the same size, so it could be the same length as the paper and then went into another room to choose the letters I’d like on bracelet.
After I’d chosen the letters, I had a hammer and I placed each letter onto the leather and tapped them so it made a mark. Then before I went back into the room where I was bracelet making, I had to choose what coloured popper I wanted. The last thing I had to do when I went back into the other room, was to go over the letters with a permanent marker pen.
