Day opportunities online archive

Prepare a simple tuna salad with Sophie from Mencap

D is for Denmark – Craft around the world with Lorraine and make a mermaid plate.

Ben Greatbatch, Special Olympics Basketball Player, teaches us some basketball skills.

Get active with Minstead Movers with Zoe

Matthew from Mencap cooks a lasagne.

Sow and Grow – how to propagate climbers – wisteria, honeysuckle and clematis

Learn to draw with Tris from Mencap.

Craft around the world with Lorraine – create an Egyptian sunset picture

Test your general knowledge with Deano from Mencap.

Craft around the world with Lorraine – F is for France, make a sunflower

Flower arranging at Minstead Lodge.

Veg identity surprise!

Dough handprints with Mencap.

Craft around the world with Lorraine – Brazil. Make and paint a snake

Get active with a Minstead Movers session.

Get crafty with Lorraine

Make a totem pole with Lorraine.

Sow seeds with John.

Create a pair of ruby slippers with Amy from Hanger Farm Community Theatre

Hugo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre recaps his sound sessions on the Wizard of Oz.

Garden craft: make a loom

Minstead Movers.

Jo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre rounds off the work on the Wizard of Oz

Yoga with Zoe

Craft around the world with Lorraine – Sydney Opera House picture

Craft around the world with Lorraine – Make a kangaroo

Companion planting with John’s Sow and Grow

Jo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre help us to think about what home means to us

Creating a soundscape for home with Hugo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre

Garden craft with Tom.

Lorraine shows us how to make a silver picture frame.

Make a cushion cover with Hanger Farm Community Theatre

Lorraine shows us how to make a flower pot card.

Harry and Ismail from Mencap on lockdown lifting.

Under the sea collage.

Make a craft aquarium with Lorraine.

Flower pressing with Tom from the Minstead Lodge greenhouse.

Emerald City stage make-up with Amy from Hanger Farm Community Theatre

Potato patterns from Mencap.

Sow and Grow grass

Here is Libby with this morning’s Hanger Farm Community Theatre piece.

Join Jo for some games at the Emerald City

Create the Wizard of Oz’s voice with Hugo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre

Yoga with Zoe

Minstead Movers with Zoe

Minstead Movers with Zoe

Bake Banana Bread with Mencap

Tim Selwood’s view from the hill

Create a flying monkey soundscape with Hugo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre

Join Jo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre for a fun games session

John from New Forest Day Opportunities shows us how we will be social distancing in the greenhouse at Minstead Lodge

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Join Zoe from Minstead Movers for some chair-based exercise.

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Have a good sing along at this choir session with Lorraine.

Libby from Hanger Farm Community Theatre reads an extract from The Wizard of Oz

Sow and grow with John – Planting out tomato plants

Meet the goats at Minstead Trust with John and Helen

Yoga with Zoe from Minstead Movers

Friday afternoon is Minstead Trust Fete day – so you can take the afternoon off!

Chair-based exercise to music.

Minstead Movers with Zoe

A simple curry recipe from Mark at Mencap.

Join John for his sow and grow session from the veg garden at Minstead Lodge. Planting a chilli plant and making comfrey compost.

A tour of the Minstead Lodge greenhouse with John.

Join Jo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre for a relaxation session

Hugo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre talks us through creating a soundscape for the poppyfield in the Wizard of Oz

Zoe brings us an energetic Minstead Movers session to get us all active.

Today John gives us some tips for planting potatoes, winter cabbages and leeks. It’s also time to take a look at that confrey compost!

Harvesting vegetables with Tom at Minstead Lodge

Join Lorraine as she creates a mandala with toilet roll tubes

Make a paper bead bracelet.

Make a lion costume with Amy from Hanger Farm Community Theatre

Finger painting with Lorraine.

It’s a crafty takeover. This afternoon’s session is hand painting with Lorraine.

It’s all about the Lion from The Wizard of Oz today as Jo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre shows us how to act as the cowardly lion.

Libby from Hanger Farm Community Theatre teaches us to sing and sign the cowardly lions song – If I only had a nerve.

Hugo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre creates a soundtrack for the lion

Bake cookies with Jane.

Make a jellyfish with Lorraine

Vijay’s epic sports quiz!

Yoga with Zoe

Tim Selwood tells you about the time a digger disappeared in Furzey lake!

Lorraine shows you how to print a vibrant under the sea picture at home.

Jo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre shows us how to become the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz.

Make and bake scones with Jane.

In the Veg Garden with John from New Forest Day Opportunities – potting on tomato plants, sowing zinnia seeds and sowing carrotts and radishes straight into the ground.

A Mencap takeover with a simple outdoor exercise routine from Ahsan.

Join Libby from Hanger Farm Community Theatre for a singing and signing session.

Gardening with James from Mencap.

Get moving with Zoe from Minstead Movers

Make a cheer flag with Mencap.

Join John in the garden as he shows us how to take cuttings from herbs

Tim Selwood’s View from the Hill – the disappearing honey

Our series of Wizard of Oz sessions from Hanger Farm Community Theatre team continues with a craft lesson on how to make your own scarecrow.

Learn how to act like a scarecrow!

Join Tom to see how you could make your own house for toads in your back garden and do your bit to encourage wildlife.

Libby from Hanger Farm Community Theatre leads you through a sing along of ‘If I only had a brain’ from Wizard of Oz.

Hugo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre helps us to create a scarecrow soundscape

Get moving with Zoe and Minstead Movers

Joe has created his own work out routine called Round the Garden Challenge inspired by Mencap and Sport England’s Round the World Challenge.

Create your own cheer flag with Mencap TV – choose your own message and follow this simple video

When Furzey gallery burnt down – Tim Selwood’s weekly message.

Learn some yoga poses with Zoe.

Learn to sing ‘Follow the Yellow Brick Road’ with Makaton signs. Join Libby from Hanger Farm Community Theatre.

Create a yellow brick road with Amy from Hanger Farm Community Theatre.

A special guest appearance, as Andrew from Mencap gets us up and moving this morning.

Sow and grow with John from New Forest Day Opportunities. This week John is planting leeks, sweetcorn and sweet peas as well as caring for the tomato plants in the greenhouse.

Hugo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre helps us think about the sounds that may make us a soundscape for the journey along the yellow brick road.

Have some fun with Jo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre as she shows us how to make ourselves sound like munchkins.

Learn some new dance moves from Zoe, with a special guest!

Join Minstead Movers Donna and Tatiana for today’s session.

Join the sing-a-long choir with Lorraine

Get arty with Lorraine and create some colourful prints from nature.

This week’s View from the Hill from Tim is fascinating – the story of when Minstead Lodge almost slid down the hill!

Join Jackie to see how the goats are getting on at Minstead Lodge and find out how they are mucked out.

Make a witches hat with Amy from Hanger Farm Community Theatre

Libby from Hanger Farm Community Theatre sings ‘Ding dong the witch is dead’ with makaton signs.

Jane’s cookery session helps you make pizza at home.

Make a bird scarer with Tom from New Forest Day Opportunities

Join John in the Minstead Lodge walled garden to find out how to sow sunflowers and courgettes.

Jo from Hanger Farm Community Theatre show us how to perform as good and evil witches.

Chair based exercises to stay fit and healthy at home.

Make a windmill with Vicky from New Forest Day Opportunities

Home printing with Lorraine.

Make a pencil pot with Lorraine

Tim Selwood’s weekly View from the Hill.

Learn how to make a wind chime for your garden.

Join Jo from our Hanger Farm Community Theatre for a movement class based around a cyclone

Make a bottle bird feeder with Tom from New Forest Day Opportunities.

VE Day crafts with Lorraine

Some great dance exercise for you to keep healthy and active at home.

Click here to view the Minstead Movers session.

You can watch the first 15 minutes online or download the full version to watch whenever you like.

Hugo, from Hanger Farm Community Theatre shows us how to make sound scape with items found around the home.

Make a simple cyclone with Amy from Hanger Farm Community Theatre

VE Day baking with Lorraine.

Sow and grow tomatoes with John from New Forest Day Opportunities

Our Founder Tim Selwood with his weekly Sunday thought for the day.

Zoe (and special guest!) takes you through a simple yoga routine to try at home.

Libby from our Hanger Farm Community Theatre teaches us ‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’ with Makaton

Amy from our community theatre group invites you to make rainbows

Get moving with these chair-based exercises to music with India and Donna.

Join John from New Forest Day Opportunities for his sow and grow session. This week he shows us how to plant runner beans.

Jason has a music quiz for you to try at home.

Join Jo, our drama facilitator from Hanger Farm Community Theatre, for a relaxation technique we can all do at home.

How to make a shaker at home to use during this evening’s clap for carers.

Join Tom in the grounds of Minstead Lodge to find out how to make a bird feeder.

Join Karen for a step by step session on making flowers from card.

Fitness and dance at home with Christina

Tim Selwood’s weekly Sunday message.

A view from the hill – Rev Tim Selwood

Minstead Movers – dance session from Portsmouth

John’s Sow and Grow – session one

John from New Forest Day Opportunities brings you session one on how to sow and grow seeds from home that will bring you vegetables later this summer.

Sit-down dance

A fitness routine to do at home while sitting down, from our dance instructor Christina.

Lorraine’s craft your own windsock

Join Lorraine and the choir for a singalong.

A view from the hill 2 – Rev Tim Selwood