Bensonhurst Senior Center
Blog 8 4/7/22
Flowers & Family Tree
Our seniors are excelling at making paper flowers. They decorate the Family Tree “growing” from the branches adding color and beauty to the ornaments already hanging there. Last week they made magnificent sunflowers in a variety of colors, which await mounting. So Sim, as usual, went a step further and crocheted sunflowers.
Memory games are fun, so we warmed up our brains this morning by memorizing 6 items on a tray, revealed for 10 seconds, before being covered again. Our clever students had no difficulty in recounting what they saw even after 3 different rounds!
We posed the question, “Who would you give your sunflower to?” and “Why?”. As they pondered this, they collected the necessary materials, cardboard, decorative paper, string or ribbon, glue stick and hot glue gun, paper for writing a message and/or a photo. The cardboard was covered with the chosen paper and used as the base for the plaque. Ribbon was attached to the back and secured with masking tape. This was covered with colored paper.
Students designed the layout incorporating the sunflower and their message, supplemented with flourishes using colored paper. Once all the elements were in place they were glued on and the sunflower hot glued into position. Students shared their work, while explaining their designs.
Taking a vote for flower drawing or making another paper flowers they agreed on the latter and so we began the flower popularly called the “pom pom” because it resembles pom poms used by cheerleaders. This activity we’ll complete next week, although I’m sure many of our seniors will forge ahead and work on completing the flower for homework!
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