Angel Card Words

Angel Cards [you can make your own]
Turn all the cards face down and get each person to pick one card.

This is the card that they need to think about for the week.
Ask: How does this word apply to you?
Ask: Is it something that you need to work on?

Ask: Is it something that is touching your life rigth now?

Words include things like "peace, transformation, harmony, love"
Write the word down in the centre of a colourtful peice of paper.
Then as a group write down all the things you can think of that apply the word to the person.

painting on styrofoam

These are paintings done by adults with disabilities.
The activity was easy, and the canvases were free! (old pieces of styrofoam packaging)
Painting can be done on anything, including cut up cardboard boxes.
large paintings make good wall decorations and when they are done on something solid (like styrofoam or cardboard, they last longer and stick out against a wall.)

Bean Bags filled with rice

 I made these bean bags out of old fabric and filled them with dollarama rice.

-Cut 2 peices of fabric and place the side of the fabric that looks the nicest inside front to front facing eachother. Therefore the outside of the fabric is the side that you sew on.

- Sew 3 sides; then turn the fabric right-side-out and fill the bag with rice... sew up the 4th side!

The bean bags were made for people to hold in their hands during stretching and tai-chi.

You can make bean bags for the use in games and activities.

Season Window Decorations - Winter

Seasonal Window Decorations - Fall

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!

Fridge Magnets using Beads

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)

Painting a Mural Wall

 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.