Working on a new activity- or at least new to most of our current clientle. Have secured a huge box of sweaters from a local thrift store ( they are stained, stretched, or other wise not able to be sold) and we are cutting them into small pieces and unraveling them. In just a little bit we will have a mountain of "stuffing" material. We are then making small "tooth fairy" pillows and stuffing them with the unraveled sweater material. Makes so much sense to the folks I care for- they were great re-cyclers in their day, and the cute pillows will be sweet gifts for their great grandchildren- something they will keep because great grandmother "made" it. Win-win. Another cute thing that I made - probably 10 years ago- from the sweaters- I cut the white, green and red ones into 1" squares and the folks on my Alzheimers unit then strung them on yarn with a plastic needle and made the neatest Christmas "swags" for trees, fireplaces or just about anywhere. Some of them had a bead between each square and some were strung so close together that they were very heavy- but they were really neat and the family members who received them as gifts from mom or dad still have and use them at Christmastime. Suppose if you wanted to take the time you could cut teeny hearts and string them for valentine's day.