Chinese lanterns created by the young people adorn the foliage in the atrium at All Saints Action Network

Day 1 : Christmas Crafts and Healthy Lifestyles

• I like making the baubles because it was fun.
• I felt happy and excited. I really enjoyed with RAW. I liked the Christmas activity.
• ​I found today activities really fun.​
• I felt happy, enjoyed and safe. I enjoyed the most the arts and crafts.

• I liked doing the fruit activity and I felt happy with RAW staff
• I enjoyed doing the Christmas activities and the food activities as you got to taste and design fruits.
• This is the best day!

Day 2 : Tee Shirts and Cardboard afternoon

• It was a great activity, and I loved making the T-Shirt.
• The staff are the best and I loved making my T-Shirt.
• The activities were exquisite today.
• I enjoyed doing cardboard stuff today.
• I feel really happy doing everything. I enjoyed making T-shirt and cardboard. The staff are kind.
• I liked the mermaid cardboard decorating and the T-shirt that we own design.

Day 3 : wooden model making, optical illusions and snake drawings

• I liked the snake drawing. I like doing the illusion drawing.
• I like building my own butterfly.
• It was very fun and exciting.
• I liked doing the optical illusion and liked snake drawing.
• I enjoyed making the wooden crafts because it was fun.
• I really like today, it was really fun. I really enjoyed everything today. I really enjoyed 3D shapes today. Was the best day for me.

Day 4: Chinese New Year and BSL / Deaf awareness and games

Lunch time runarounds!

Survey results

Thank you all for your kindness and support
 
Amazing work all through the week. Hopefully the HAF doesn’t finish as these kids need a place to go and in some cases some food too
 
Real Arts Workshops are great as usual privilege to volunteer for them
 
Amazing!!😀
 
It is very nice when we get to go out to football also 👍

Amazing Art by young people - Wolverhampton Easter HAF 2022

Evidence shows that free holiday clubs can have a positive impact on children and young people, and  provide consistent and easily accessible enrichment activities cover more than just breakfast or lunch use local partnerships and connections, particularly with the voluntary and community organisation sector

​We integrated healthy eating education into our daily activities such as designing Eatwell Posters, healthy eating tags to decorate a colourful and bright cardboard tree and planting herb seeds into decorated tin can planters. ​As always, we were impressed with the creativity of the young people and the individuality of the artwork produced despite the materials and instructions provided being the same for everyone.

“The staff are very kind, they are great at making things enjoyable”
“I enjoyed being hands on and working with the others to make art”
“I enjoyed making something I could use and being able to express myself and my interests through art”
“Because I could do new things and make new friends”
‘Because it made me feel more creative”
 “Because they were really fun, and it was nice to try something new”
“I enjoyed those particular activities because I found them challenging in some way and interesting which made me want to take part more in the activities. The staff are always there to help and give out the steps clearly to support us in every way”
[Parent view] It’s been superb. Everyone is very considerate about his needs. Very co-ordinated. He loves it. Everyone tried to support and help him. Many thanks.”
“I enjoyed them because they were creative and artistic”
“I really enjoyed painting and designing the trees in collaboration with everyone else.”
"I found using watercolours very relaxing."
“Today I had lots of fun - yay!!”
“I liked making cards and making tins. I feel very excited for tomorrow.”
“I have enjoyed today, even though it was my first day. I enjoyed making friends and doing water[colour] painting. I enjoyed everything and I am so glad I came.”
“I enjoyed today because I love art and we did lots of art that I haven’t done before.”