Face Painting Extraordinaire's!

Yesterday saw the Rouse Hill Families Connect team spend the morning facepainting at Woodford Community Centre, to help out one of our sister programs hold a community christmas party there!

It was a lovely morning: warm sun, sausages on the barbie, loads of games and even 'the man in red' made an appearance-escorted by the local police to ensure that he arrived on time!

                           (some of the painting that was done....the penguins were a hit!)

We also had a volunteer morning tea in the garden for all the people that helped out on building the Kids Patch with scones (and jam and cream of course), mince pies, punch-and a chance to pick your own vegies from the Kids Patch!

Please, feel free to pop by and give the plants a water, pick some of the vegies, or even just have a look and a play in the playground!

On another note, the Christmas tree is up in the office, and we have been busy decorating: here is how we made some stars:

Christmas Stars
What You Need:
thick card (like a detergent box)
scissors
glue
foil candy/chocolate wrappers
hole punch
sequin stars
gold cord

What You Do:
*Draw the outline of a star onto the thick card (you can make it any size-we did all different sizes) and cut out.
*Tear the foil into small random sized pieces. Glue pieces onto the star, so they are overlapping until the entire star is covered. Leave to dry.
*Glue the sequin stars onto both sides of the foil covered star. Leave to dry.
*Using the hole punch, make a hole in the top of one of the points of the star. Thread the gold cord through the hole and tie in a knot - and then hang on the tree!!

Enjoy the decorating--we did!