We’ve been really lucky to receive boxes from Ticky at MakingSenseCIC that have inspired and guided some lovely sensory experiences during our time shielding. “makingsense@home is a MakingSenseCIC project to provide sensory resources and activity ideas in collaboration with artists and arts venues across North Wales. We are making sensory activity packs and digital resources for…
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Returning to craft
It’s the 10th of January 2021. Dan has been shielding from Covid-19 since 17th March. We’ve not needed the focus from the creative challenge as much over the autumn, when shielding officially ended Dan was able to go out for distanced walks and bike rides. I also managed to track down an affordable inflatable hot…
BCC day 2 Favourite meal
Dans chippy tea x As we’d just finished our 2 week cooking challenge we’d recently sampled some of our favourites including Mum’s roast dinner so for today’s challenge we went with chippy tea! As we are shielding Dan we couldn’t go to the chip shop so Mum looked up a recipe for a light gluten…
Be creative challenge
Day 1, Pond life We started our Be Creative Challenge full of energy to have a new focus to the day. I made a plan for day 1 and ordered supplies with our supermarket delivery to create our delicious, gooey, sensory experience of a pond! I made a speeded up video of our pond experience…
Finding a focus
At the start of lockdown I noticed a lot of chat about what people were doing ‘to keep busy’. This was a bit of an odd concept to me which many carers will identify with. I had moved back into my parents house to shield my brother Dan. When you live with someone with PMLD…
Lockdown life
I was asked to write a short piece about how things currently are for us during the Covid-19 lockdown. It’s ATR-X awareness day today and yesterday was the first ever ATR-X day of remembrance so I thought I’d share. As cases of covid-19 arrived in the UK our family were taking steps to protect my…
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