If you have ever traveled to another state or country there is always a snow globe in the gift shop at the airport. Headed to any tourist spots in NYC or other major cool places like NASA or fun spots and there is a snow globe on the shelves. For a brief time I had a collection of snow globes that lived on some shelves in my room growing up. They were typically from places my family or friends or myself had visited around the world.
When I was in high school I stayed home sick one day from school. I was sick. But it wasn’t “that sick”. If you know what I mean. ;-). So about halfway through the day I got super bored and decided that I was going to paint a wall mural in my bedroom.
For whatever ridiculous reason I painted a shadowed image of the Egyptian pyramids with a bunch of shadow images of ancient Egyptians dancing around in front of the pyramid, a dangerous snake that spiraled from the bottom of the wall curling and swirling and all the way up until its head swallowed my light switch.
Recently as I was scrolling through Pinterest I found this really cute, very quick little fun activity with dots of acrylic paint and whatever kind of paper or canvas you’d like to use and a scraping tool. It was so simple and yet so creative that I grabbed my materials and got started on this cute little project, known as Dot Art, with my art camp students.
I like to buy those small 2 ounce bottles of acrylic paint. I get whatever is available at the craft store or the dollar store, whatever is cheapest. It really doesn’t matter too much, especially for what we’re doing here today. There are several brands that you can use, I don’t have a special one I prefer.
What is art therapy? Art therapy is a new technique in terms of therapy styles that have been around since Freud was coming up with his odd therapeutic styles and practices.
Some of it was seriously unusual and yet, he is the Father of Modern Psychotherapy. Of course that was over 100 years ago and since then the world has come a very long way.
Be Creative . . .it’s an order, basically and let me tell you why! For so many of us, staying motivated and productive can be a huge struggle when you are facing a crisis. If it’s a pandemic or another sort of natural disaster like a flood or tornado these are still very stressful events for both individuals and communities. It’s normal to feel some stress and anxiety, and that stress can be amplified by your work or home environment.