Activity | Description |
Draw Your Safe Place | Draw a place where you feel safe and secure. Think about colors and shapes that bring you comfort. |
Express Your Feelings | Use colors and shapes to express a feeling you’ve had this week. Don’t focus on creating a perfect picture, just let your emotions guide you. |
Mask Making | Create a mask that represents what you show to the outside world versus what you feel internally. |
Write and Draw | Write a short paragraph about a recent challenging experience and then draw your feelings about this experience. |
Collage Your Journey | Create a collage that represents your life journey, including key moments and how they’ve shaped you. |
Paint to Music | Listen to a piece of music that resonates with you and paint what you feel as you listen. |
Sculpt Your Emotions | Use clay or another sculpting material to represent an emotion you’ve been carrying around. |
Color Your Stress | Use colors that you associate with stress to fill a page. Reflect on what the colors and patterns might represent about your stress. |
Future Self Portrait | Draw or paint a portrait of yourself in the future. How do you see yourself? What emotions do you feel about the future? |
Healing Symbols | Draw symbols that represent healing or recovery to you. Reflect on why these symbols are meaningful. |
Malchiodi, C. A. (2012). Handbook of Art Therapy. New York: Guilford Press.
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Please note: There may be a more up-to-date and editable version of this worksheet available here which may be more suitable to present to clients if you are a therapist or to use in a classroom as a teacher or guidance counsellor.
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