Luminate@Home Christmas Special

Luminate@Home Christmas Special

Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing organisation, is delighted to introduce a Luminate@Home Christmas special – three festive, creative activities for your residents to enjoy by themselves or in small groups from the comfort of their home.  Watch the film here [ https://vimeo.com/489829089]

In this film artists guide participants through the activities. Residents can watch the film independently, or staff can use it for some inspiration and guide the activities themselves.

Activity 1
Christmas Motif Mosaics (Watch at 00:51 minutes) 

Create Christmas mosaics from card and paper with visual artist Tracy Gorman.

You’ll need:

  • A background sheet of card or paper
  • A selection of different coloured or patterned papers
  • Scissors
  • Glue Stick
  • Pencil
  • Tubs to organise your cut-out paper tiles

Activity 2
Festive creative writing (Watch at 53 minutes) 

Pen your own festive poems or simply create them out loud, with writer Lorna Hill.

There are three optional resources to accompany this session, which can be downloaded here [LINK https://www.luminatescotland.org/resources]

Activity 3
Seated hand jive and Charleston (Watch at 36:06 minutes) 

Some festive dancing without leaving your chair, with dancer Chris Stuart-Wilson

Merry Christmas from everyone at Luminate 

Scotland’s creative ageing organisation 

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