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The image below is of a team contract in my team and i came up with

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Our group name is Team Build-A-Buddy Art Group
Our group decided to make a "whatsapp" group chat as a way of communicating with each other outside of class. In this group chat we were then able to share ideas, images and clarify each other about certain things.

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Our main objective is to embrace emotions through art activities.
As a group while we were researching for ideas we seen a common theme coming up fore ideas we liked. This theme was emotions.

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As a group we all had many ideas flowing around our heads! But we knew we would not have time to do them all.

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One of our first ideas as a group was decoupage. This is the art of decorating an object by gluing paper cutout of different patterns or colours on to an object in combination with special paint effects. Most people intend on doing decoupage on a small jewelry box or piece of furniture. you can use different kinds of patterned paper or even use cut-outs from magazines or newspapers.

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My group got different patterned paper and napkins to use and we also got our own jars, cans etc to decoupage. First I had to paint my can in a thin layer of chalk paint. After that was done I then had to wait for the paint to dry and then i had to paint a strip of P.V.A. glue on the can to start sticking the napkin on.

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I had to paint on the P.V.A. glue strip by strip as well as pasting the pattern paper to the can so that it would stick properly. You can use different patterned paper for this.

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Our second idea as a group was Lino Printing. This is a form of fine art printmaking where the printing plate is cut into lino. The lino is then inked, a piece of paper is then placed over it and then you have to roll over it with a lino roll and apply pressure by hand to transfer the ink to the paper.

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These are the materials needed for lino printing.

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Here are some pictures of the Lino Printing my group did.

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Here is another design of lino printing that my group did.

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Our third idea was sewing. We decided to make little stuffed animals.
Rachel had tried it at home so she came up with the idea. As a result of her doing this at home she talked us through making stuffed animals. We used different colours of felt to make the stuffed animals, a needle and thread and then we stuffed the inside with stuffing.

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First, we had to make templates on paper of the stuffed animal we each had chosen. The reason why we had to make these templates was to be able to cut out the shapes of the animal on material. The animal i picked was a unicorn because my niece likes unicorns so when it would be completed i would give it to my niece.

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This is the unicorn template.

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This is the lama template.

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We had loads of different coloured felt to choose from for our stuffed animals.

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When we had all the pieces of felt cut out, we then started sewing them together. the stitching we used was the catch stitch.

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After I had sewn one side of the felt, i could then start stuffing inside the felt.

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Once i had a good bit of stuffing in, i then continued to sew again

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The more i sewed, i then put in more stuffing.

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When i had all the stuffing done on the inside I then sewed all of the unicorn up. Then I started to cut out the unicorn horn and hair out of different colours of felt. I also attached a wing on to the side of the unicorn.

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This is my stuffed animal completed.

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As a group, we enjoyed making and sewing the stuffed animals because of this we then decided to pick this activity as a facilitation. We Found this activity very therapeutic and relaxing. We then started thinking more into this activity and other ideas of doing it for our Facilitation. As we spent more time in class sewing we came across minor barriers that we might have to change for the facilitation. One of these barriers was the needles, as using proper steel needles could be unsafe for the service users in our facilitation. We then tried sewing with the plastic needles and we found that it was too difficult to put the plastic needles through the felt.

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We then as a group came up with the idea of using a stapler to staple the fabric together. Although it worked, it still wasn't the same.

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We also seen this handheld sewing machine in Tiger, so we decided to get it and see would it work. Unfortunately it didn't work on the felt because it was to tough of material to use on.

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We then as a group came up with another plan which was to pre-hole the pieces of felt for the service users as it would be less time consuming and less difficult to sew with the plastic needles if they were pre-holed.

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After our heads were set on doing sewing for our facilitation, we started planning it out and thinking of how we were going to prep for it. We got the plastic needles, we thought of the animals we were going to make the service users could pick, we got all the different colour felt material for the different animals and lastly the thread. Ciara in our group also thought about doing up a leaflet on each animal and what emotion the animal related too.
The animals we decided on were; a Monkey which was to symbolise happiness or being excited. The Lion was to symbolise anger. The Seal was to symbolise sadness. The Lama was to symbolise being stressed or busy and lastly the Unicorn was to symbolise being lonely. Each member of my group picked an animal to help make and talk about in our facilitation with the service users.

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Next we came up with the idea of stations in our facilitation. We had four stations these were; a template station where you picked out the templates of the animal you choose and pick the material that we pre holed. When preparing the material you should consider point size, typeface, paper type, colour and weight. The sewing station where you then start to sew your stuffed animal. The stuffing and scent station where you then start stuffing your stuffed animal and put a scent on it so it can smell nice. the scents we had were lavender, cinnamon and lemongrass. after the stuffing station was the decorating station, this was where you could put any final touches you wanted on to your stuffed animal. Each of us took responsibility for a station.

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These are the items that were in the template stage. Unfortunately, I only have a picture of the monkey template.

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These were the scented flavours drops we used to put on the stuffing

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This is a picture of the monkey being sewn

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This is a picture of the seal after it is sewn up and finished.

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This is a picture of the lion almost finished

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This is a picture of the unicorn being sewn.

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This is a picture of the unicorn finished.

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In my opinion, I feel that my groups facilitation went very well. The service users from St. Hilda's really enjoyed the idea of 'Build-a-Buddy' workshop. Although they found parts of it was difficult they still never gave up and were still interested to keep going. I also found that more time should be allocated to that particular activity also. When the service users from St. Hilda's were finished making their 'Build-a-Buddy' animals we then gave them a pamphlet for their stuffed animal, where they could write the details of their 'Build-a-Buddy' for example; their name, where they were made etc.
I also felt that our idea of having the material being cut out and pre holed worked to our advantage as it gave us more time to sew. Also using the plastic needles worked out perfect it as we knew for sure that no one would get hurt from them.

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