Activity: Tracing Leaves from outside, tracing leaves from pre-made stencils or drawing your own leaves. Use realistic coloured construction paper and clear scotch tape to put them up on any windows or doors.
Tracing can be done hand-over-hand or if the client can draw on their own, tape down a leaf and get them to trace around it.
The leaves give the room atmosphere!
I've noticed that I am lacking in fridge magnets and did not want to spend too much money. I made my own for 1 dollar. I just put some glue on the magnet and dipped it into the pot of beads. This can be an easy craft to do with adults or children.
What do you need?
-- Buy a pack of magnets from dollarama
(mine came with 7 in a package... I bought large round ones)
-- Glue gun with glue sticks (you can get one at the dollar store as well.
-- Old beads (or buy some at the dollar store)
I work with a man who loves to do tasks. I needed a creative project that he would be interested in. Little did I know he would love painting a mural. As he cannot reach to paint the wall himself, his tasks involved choosing colours and telling me where he wanted to colours on the wall. He would also remind me to paint each day and was the manager of this project until every inch was covered in paint.
I decided to transform an old ugly corkboard wall into a colourful mural that the clients can look at and interpret in their own way. My helper chose the colours and we worked on the wall over a few weeks. I painted 2-3 different colour lines each day with my helper's encouragement and it became an activity that he looked forward to each day.
