We had a tree-mendous time at our Christmas Craft session on 14th December.
The three sessions offered an hour of festive fun for the whole family to enjoy. The sessions included a selection of crafts to complete, warm drinks, and a tour of the Shelter.
Crafts were demonstrated by the education team, with a selection to choose from including Christmas pom-poms, rabbit baubles, dog biscuits, colouring, letters to Santa, and a keepsake for the young people to take away.
Attendees could take their creations home for their own pets or donate them as a gift to a Shelter resident.
Santa’s Workshop
During the session we enjoyed hot drinks, gingerbread biscuits, and mince pies while making the enrichment items.
The children and young people also had the opportunity to write a letter to Santa, complete Christmas colouring sheets, and make a Christmas tree handprint keepsake to take away.
We would like to thank everyone for supporting our Christmas Craft event and our Animal Experience Days throughout 2024.
As well as learning about pet safety and responsible pet ownership by attending our sessions your children and young people are also helping the animal care team with their daily tasks and giving residents who love to be around people extra respite from their pens/ kennels and human companionship.
Your ticket purchases go towards the running costs of the Shelter so we can continue to help the dogs, cats, and small animals in our care. As an independent Shelter we do not receive government funding with our annual costs now over £1,000,000!
We would not be able to carry out the work we do without the generosity of our supporters. From all the staff, volunteers, and animals thank you.
Thank you to those who made our Shelter residents Christmas a little brighter by donating their craft items to a rescue animal.
These were given to the animals by the animal care team and, as you can see, they really enjoyed their presents!
Our Animal Experience Days run every school holiday except over the Christmas period.
They offer children and young people aged 5-16 a unique opportunity to learn about responsible pet ownership and safety in a fun, relaxed environment.
For more information and to join our mailing list for the sessions please visit our Animal Days page.
