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Weekly Art Therapy activities to do at home 29th June 2020Hello its Fiona the school Art Therapist. I hope you have found the Quarantine Quilt: Loving Connections video I made and are making or thinking about what you can make. We are collecting images until the summer holidays so please keep sending them in when you get the time or ideas. Really looking forward to seeing them.These activities are for children and adults so you can either do them together or by yourselves at different times in the day. For these activities find a table where you can draw and have your art materials around you. If possible close the door and let anyone in the house know you are having some ‘quiet time’ doing some art making. Or if you choose to do these activities together that’s ok too. Just check with each child/adult what they would prefer and if you can use all materials.Before both of these activities it is helpful to ground yourself and settle into being in the present moment before starting to draw. I invite you to practice the breathing exercise I introduced last week before starting each activity.NOTICING OUR HEART AND MIND You will need 2 pieces of paper & drawing materialsOn the first piece of paper draw a heart as large as you want. Then close your eyes and put your hands on your heart to really try and tune in to what you are feeling in your heart.Ask yourself ‘What is my heart feeling right now ?’ Hope, sadness, anger perhaps. Then open your eyes and try and use a colour for each different feeling and draw what those feelings might look like either inside or outside the heart. Don’t get too stuck on what you will draw, just choose a colour and start doing the first strokes and things will unfold.Then take your second piece of paper and this time use words and write down all the different things you have been thinking about recently. Write anything. It might be what your going to each, your family, coronavirus. Fill the whole paper with all the words you can start to add images and colours. So you will now have 2 different piece of paper. Have a look at both different pieces of paper and see what you notice. Notice if there are any similarities in the things you have been thinking on your ‘mind’ page and anything you notice on your heart page. Shapes.I hope you try this exercise and to see if you can find out more about yourself. It’s a way to give yourself space to notice what you thinking and feeling. You can either then share your work with a family member or a friend who you trust if you want share any thoughts or feelings that you may have not understood before but of course you don’t have to it can be just your work to reflect on. Once you have finished sit back down in the chair and close your eyes and take you attention to your breathing and how you feel now. COMMENTS ABOUT THESE ACTIVITIES PLEASE It would be lovely to hear from children, parents, carers who have been using these prompts whilst in lockdown and during COVID-19. If you could send comments about your experiences and comments that would be so great to see. If you could aks the children and write word for word what they say they have liked, enjoyed, learnt about these.All comments are welcome and helpful and can help me shape these activities for the weeks to come.I hope you enjoy these activities, just create and notice how you feel, this is a special time for you to tap into your creativity and play. Warm Wishes, Fiona Fitzpatrick, Art Therapist ................
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