Today we did A New Thing at church: summer holiday craft drop-in. The perennial anxiety, 'will anyone come?' This was the painting drying table at snack time 😍 #TinyJoys
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Beautiful. Looks like that's a goer
jul 31, 2025, 7:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Yup! Lots of "see you next week, and we're going to bring our friends" as they left.
jul 31, 2025, 7:45 pm • 6 0 • view
You might need a bigger drying table!
jul 31, 2025, 7:56 pm • 4 0 • view
I imagine there are lots of caregivers and children grateful to be able to do a fun relaxing thing together that doesn’t cost lots of money, and creates the mess somewhere with a wipe clean floor! Sounds like great activity to run.
jul 31, 2025, 9:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes! Painting for 25 children creates pretty much the same amount of clear-up as painting for 2 children, so it makes a lot of sense to do it as a communal activity. A good time had by all.
jul 31, 2025, 9:18 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes, very much this! Also lots more space, which helps, too. I’d love to try something like this (we don’t have to a hard floor, but I’m sure we could think of something).
jul 31, 2025, 9:23 pm • 2 0 • view
A decent-sized groundsheet is an excellent investment for messy activities in a carpeted church, in my experience.
jul 31, 2025, 9:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Wow, that one kid was busy 😜 (glad it went well)
jul 31, 2025, 8:35 pm • 5 0 • view
😂 There definitely were more paintings than kids! And some grown ups had a go too, which was lovely.
jul 31, 2025, 8:41 pm • 2 0 • view
I was similarly worried about our music day last weekend but we had over 30 people. Hopefully 'Granny Caft Day'/ 'Diwrnod Crefftau Nain' this Saturday will be popular too!
jul 31, 2025, 9:55 pm • 3 0 • view
Amused that my brain expects more crafts in Welsh than English due to my Nain being more crafty than my Granny!
jul 31, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I got 500 words of blurb about the summer holiday activities translated by Helo Blod and you get to tell them context, register, and north/south etc so I was able to specify definitely 'Nain'
jul 31, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Grins. I have a complex relationship with these words. My dad's mam is my Nain because although Cardiffian she worked for a Welsh speaking family who used Nain. But I've learnt more south Walian. Oddest was when Granny was ill in my second year & Gog friend asked "Sut mae dy Nain?" My response
jul 31, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Instinctively was "mae Nain yn feeing, mam-gu sy'n sâl "
jul 31, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Ffein silly phone
jul 31, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Just realised I mistyped 'craft'
jul 31, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I refrained from laughing at the typo
jul 31, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ve got a church doing a craft supply swap mid summer to great success!!
jul 31, 2025, 11:26 pm • 1 0 • view
That sounds great!
aug 1, 2025, 7:54 am • 1 0 • view