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3rd Hastings Brownies

The 3rd Hastings Brownies and 10th Haastings Rainbows who meet at St Helens church hall visited the residents in Hastings Court residential care home. Some of the residents came to the lounge to be entertained by the girls singing Christmas songs including the twelve days of Christmas with actions. They then spent time chatting individually to the residents and gave them a handmade Christmas card and a wreath decoration for their room.

The residents had a lovely time listening to the singing and chatting with the girls. The Brownies and Rainbows always enjoy this event that we do each year. A Brownie parent sent Brown Owl a message the next day saying how her daughter had not stopped talking about it and went into school and told everyone there. She told her mum that it was lovely to make them smile, and made her feel really good!

There were some cards and decorations left over so Frances at Hastings Court kept them to distribute to those residents unable to attend the evening, and who do not receive visitors, which was a lovely touch.

Two Brownies also made their promise which the residents enjoyed watching.

Hastings Rangers recently designed their own mugs and coasters . They started off by picking pictures of things that they wanted on their mugs. Some picked clip art pictures from a programme called Cricut space design on a laptop and the mug wrap was made and printed through this programme. Others designed their own by drawing and colouring in with felts or crayons, some did patterns. It was down to them what they wanted. The pictures that were drawn was scanned onto the laptop and printed through Cricut space design program on to sublimation paper using sublimation ink. The printouts were then wrapped around the sublimation mugs and held in place by heat tape coved with butcher paper then placed into a mug press. (leader did the mug pressing bit at home for both mugs and coasters.) The butcher paper and printout were removed once cold. The Rangers then had their own mugs that they had designed. The coasters were design freehand using felt tips and crayons and then were scanned onto the laptop and printed through space design the same as the mugs. The were put onto the coasters by using a large heat press.