Becoming Creative:
Sharing visual art for wellbeing with children & young people
Becoming Creative is a flexible course to use in your own time at home or anywhere. Over 5 units, the course explores different ways of sharing visual art for wellbeing with children and teenagers. There are varied activity suggestions and ideas to adjust to different age groups.
The course should be suitable for anyone sharing art with children and/or young people to explore how they feel and boost their wellbeing – such as:
- play leaders
- counsellors
- therapists
- teachers
- youth leaders
- childcare providers
- parents or carers
- wellbeing practitioners
- artists
Each of the five units takes a particular theme, highlighting how and why it might be important, and setting out varied, practical ideas, as well as presenting three specific activities with example images:
Unit 1: Introduction – Art Day By Day
Unit 2: Narrative
Unit 3: Abstract
Unit 4: Wide, Wide World
Unit 5: Self & Other
Sign up for Becoming Creative here for £20, and you will be sent the course units.
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