I spent the first half of my day working in a skilled nursing facility. It gave me the perfect opportunity to make some festive flowers! Several people participated in this activity and they really seemed to enjoy making the decorative flora. This lovely rainbow colored flower is now an adornment on the physical therapist's cabinet.
The reactions I get when I start bringing craft supplies out during a treatment session always surprises me. More often than not, people become intimidated or nervous when they think we are doing "art." I usually here something along the lines of "I'm not artistic" or "I can't paint". However, their anxiety is soon dispelled when I show them how easy the activity is or I say "oh that's o.k., you can't mess this up."
I like to take a large tote bag of random craft items with me when I am working in the clinic. You never know what will appeal to people and I like to be somewhat prepared. After paper flowers were made I had a fair amount of tissue scraps and I needed to do something with all this colorful paper! You guessed it! We brushed a decoupage fixative over the wooden beads and used our scraps to cover them. I brought the beads home so I can string them on ribbon or decorative cording and return them as fun jewelry for the folks who made them. As I worked today I thought a little about my blogging theme for the month and I decided to make a little change. I'm making an executive decision, (If Obama can do it so can I) I am changing my theme from "Food, Fiber, Fabric and Fun" to "Paint, Paper and Provisions."
Cute flowers! I want to see the beads when they are done - I bet they are fun.
ReplyDeleteYou definitely can make an executive decision President Rachel. I can't wait to see how the "P"s pan out. :)
~Jil