Express Yourself: Creative Art Therapy
Express Yourself: Creative Art Therapy
Lesson duration is: 20 minItems in this lesson
Express Yourself: Creative Art Therapy
What do you already know about expressing feelings through art?
Learning Objective
At the end of the lesson you will have experienced one creative activity to help you express your thoughts and feelings through art in your private book.
How Can Art Help Us?
Art gives us a safe way to show our feelings, worries and dreams without using words. Using colours, shapes and pictures, we can feel calmer and understand ourselves better.
Your Private Art Book
Your art book is yours only. You can draw, write, and create anything inside. You can share if you want, but it is private and personal.
Week 1: Colour & Mood
Choose colours that match your feelings today. Fill one page with these colours as patterns or shapes. No need to draw anything real, just show how you feel with colours!
Week 2: Scribble Out the Stress
Close your eyes and make big, free scribbles on a page. Look at them and turn the scribbles into something new, like a creature or shape. How does it feel?
Week 3: My Safe Place
Imagine a place where you feel happy and safe. Draw or paint it! Add as many details as you want, using words or pictures.
Week 4: Shape Your Worries
Draw your worries as shapes, lines, or monsters. Give them colours and names. After, you can talk to them or change them to make them friendlier.
Week 5: Positive Words Collage
Find positive, kind words in magazines or write your own. Cut them out and stick them to make a colourful, happy collage.
Week 6: Express with Lines
Try drawing only with different kinds of lines: zigzags, curves, dots. Show how you feel without using pictures, just with lines and space.
Week 7: Draw Your Superpower
What is a strength or talent you have? Draw yourself as a superhero with that superpower! Add symbols and colours that match your skills.
Week 8: Mandala Moments
Draw a simple mandala with repeating shapes or patterns. Colour it in. Focus on how you feel as you create, letting your mind relax.
Week 9: Me in Symbols
Choose symbols and objects that show who you are (like a sun, a favourite animal, music). Draw them together on one page to build your identity.
Week 10: Looking Back & Looking Ahead
Flip through your art book. Notice any changes or favourites. Create one page of things you want to leave behind and another page for future wishes.
Exit Ticket
I'm now going to set the time for one minute and I want you to free write.
This is meant for your eyes only and may be a series of gobbledegook, or squiggles, or repetitive language or sentences.
There are no wrong ideas :
