Lining up mittens.

Frost on the windows. 

   I have new warmy mittens handmade by a good friend. She  makes them using repurrposed wool sweaters. 

There are several children's stories and rhymes about lost mittens.  "Three little kittens..." 

Vintage story book from 1960
by MERRIL COMPANY PUBLISHERS

THERE are story books about mittens for sale on Ebay for interactive story telling.    
Here are the names of some of them: 
 The Mitten.  M is for Mitten, Oatmeal Mittens, Missing Mittens, Noah's Mittens, The Mitten Tree,  One Mitten Lewis,  The Missing Mitten Mystery,  Big Mitten, A Mountain of Mittens,  Ice Harbor Mittens, My Red Mittens.

ACTIVITY FOR ALL AGES:  Make felt or paper mittens and decorate. Hang on a door.  Or make a paper card and write your mitten story in it.  (Trace around your own hand.  Hold your four fingers together and shape around hand and thumb.)
  

Deuteronomy 32:2 

A small rain at HollyhockJunction

And a smile from XYZinnia     

Ripped Paper: Make an owl.

November Greetings!

                                                                             

     Rita in a skilled facility, made an  owl card and wrote her own verse, and smiled,       "It's good to have purpose," she said.   

She asked to be  wheeled down the hall and into another room where sat Gordon, an amputee resident in a wheel chair.  Rita tenderly handed him the card, and he, the retired pastor wept, and they touched each others hands.  It   brightened the day  for both of them.

  

  Trace the owl outline  below on a square of construction paper, or  on repurposed pulp paper. (Use medium weight paper that tears easily.)   

  Hold the square of paper between finger and thumb and cut it tear around the lines carefully.      Tear varied shapes for  the wings, eyes, beak, legs, tree limb, and leaf. 

Owl outline

Arrange and glue the paper pieces onto paper.

This is a  good project for adult day care. 

Consider making your own animal shapes: 

Make a  turkey shape using an outline that  looks like a plump bowling ball,  and  add multi color feathers! 
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Fimo Clay Play

The daughter, an artist who watercolor paints
Sought creative day care for her mother Edith.
The helper brought Fimo clay.
The first day, Edith made a doll with many details - perfectly complete and sweet.
Edith and  the helper were pleased. 
And so was the  daughter who  never realized her mother had this talent.

Fimo  clay play - young and old  fun !

Deuteronomy 32:2  Small rain upon the tender herb... at HollyhockJunction