Oxford care home residents create poppies out of plastic bottles

Residents at MHA Brookfield cut used plastic bottles to make the flowers and also painted some on a canvas

Care home residents have made more than 100 poppies from recycled bottles.

Methodist Housing Association (MHA) Brookfield in Oxford, Oxfordshire, collected donations of plastic bottles and residents transformed them into poppies as a Remembrance Day display.

The poppies were painted red, purple and white - each colour having a different meaning.

Activity coordinator Victoria Davidson said she hoped it "continues to be a tradition".

Bottle lids were used to make the centre of the poppies, some including a 'please recycle me' message

Residents at the home spent three sessions cutting and painting the poppies - red ones for remembrance and hope, purple ones in memory of the animals that lost their lives during the First World War, and white ones for peace.

Ms Davidson said: "The lids of the bottles are what we used to make the centre of the poppy with and they include a 'please recycle me' message which is what we intend to do.

"We did something similar last year but had just the red poppies and I hope this continues to be a tradition."

MHA activity coordinator Victoria Davidson described the painting sessions as "very relaxing and productive"

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