Herefordshire Young and Young Adult Carers CIC
Valentine’s Day is drawing near so Carole has been making some heart-themed crafts this week. This is a craft called dry needle felting and she’s using a felting kit. If you’d like to have a go at this but don’t have a felting kit just let us know and we’ll sort one out for you!
More felt craft from Carole. – this time using soap! If you fancy a go and would like the materials to try this craft, just let us know.
Carole had a couple of Christmas Cookies kits leftover so decided to adapt them to be more seasonal, ready for Valentine’s Day next month. If you fancy a go at cookie baking let us know and we’ll send you a recipe and any extras you need if you don’t already have the ingredients.
Carole’s been experimenting with making bird feeders for our feathered friends now that the cold weather is here. You can hang these up in your garden or outside your window and the local birds will really appreciate it.
Carole makes some festive crafts for you to try at home.
Carole makes some spooky decorations, perfect for Halloween!
We’ve been working with air dry clay this week and I know some of our Young Carers have asked if they can give it a try and they’ll be getting some clay delivered to them very soon.
If you’re looking for ideas of things to make with it, plus top tips on how to stop it drying out and how to get the best results, Carole has some how-to videos below!
I painted the pebbles with white wall paint to make the colours from the pens more vibrant. The idea for drawing the cats came from a design on some wrapping paper.
I drew round the pebbles onto some paper and then sketched the design on with a pencil so I could perfect my design before drawing it onto my pebble (you could use tracing paper to do this if you wanted to.)
Go over the pencil lines with your paint. I used oil based paint pens, but you can use whatever you have – paints, permanent markers or even nail varnish.
Here are some other designs I made:
For Pac Man I drew around the pebble on plain paper and copied the design my friend had sent me.
I painted the stone in black acrylic paint and left to dry. I then added Pac Man in the middle and worked from there.
With the tortoise stone I again drew the design first in pencil then painted with acrylic paint, letting this dry before adding the pen details. I have a desktop fan which helped the pebbles to dry quicker but a hair dryer on a cool setting will do the same if you can’t wait for the layers of paint to dry naturally.
For this pebble I sketched the design, starting with a dot in the middle and made some segments ready to have dots of nail varnish put on.
The design was inspired by painted pebbles on Pinterest.
I roughly measured the height and width of my jar and cut a piece of paper to fit. Then I sketched the houses onto this.
Next I put blue tac on the front of the paper and stuck it to the inside of the vase to give me a guide.
I tested the pens on my glass coffee jar and used the same colour pen for all the windows etc and then moved on to the next coloured pens, rather than keep swapping pens. Be careful not to smudge as you work around the vase.
The finished item! I did a small variation adding a castle and a lighthouse.
This is a slightly different version of the potato based flan I did back in lockdown – click here to see that one.
You can pretty much add whatever you have to this bake, it’s really flexible!
Use a little oil to grease an ovenproof dish. Lay the wafer thin ham as a base, overlapping the slices to cover the bottom and sides of the dish.
As in the recipe for the potato based flan, grill the bacon while lightly frying the garlic, onion and peppers. Pop it all into the ham-lined dish, add the mushrooms, feta cheese, then beat the eggs and milk together and pour into the dish.
Cook in the oven at 160C for around 30-45 mins, depending on the size of the flan. It will be cooked when the egg and milk mixture is set. Serve hot for tea and cold in a picnic – cook once, eat twice!
Do you remember when Carole planted her vegetables back in April? This is the carrot crop! For some reason the purple ones were the smallest and the white ones grew the largest.
Carole had thought they would grow depending on the room they had in the pot, or that the orange ones would grow the largest. There was no waste at all with these as the green carrot tops were delivered to children local to Carole for them to feed to their pet rabbit.
The small tomatoes are also ready for picking, well done Carole!
This week Carole’s been making play dough. Scroll down to watch our video to see how it’s done. If you’d like to try but need help getting hold of the ingredients just let us know and we’ll help you out – here’s what you need: