⌛ 15-30 min
🧳 a sheet of paper, colourful pencils/markers/crayons/paint
🧘 project and notice your feelings, release and express your feelings
Instructions:
Put your hand on the paper and draw an outline around it.
When you have the shape of your hand on a paper, take colourful materials and paint it inside without thinking of what you are drawing, just let the shapes and colours appear on the paper.
When you have finished your painting, look at the picture and write on a paper 5 first words that come to your mind (it is okay if they don’t make any sense or seem distracted, just let your associations come to you).
With these 5 words create a poem: it can be short or long, it can rhyme or be freestyle, it can be serious or funny, it can be nonsense or a masterpiece, just see what your poem is today. See what the words tell you.
⌛ 10 min
🧳 Watercolor paper, watercolor paint, brushes, cup with water, straw, marker (optional)
🧘 feel the calm, let go of the need of control, get into the flow
Instructions:
Wet the paper with plain water (using your brush)
Drip, brush, and splatter watercolor paint onto the paper. No need to have a particular pattern or design - just do it randomly.
If you want, use a straw to blow air onto the surface of the paint. This will help merge the colors together and spread them out.
Use a marker to draw around and between the blotches (Optional)
⌛ 1 hours + aprx 1-3 days for painting drying
🧳 Drop cloth or plastic sheeting, gloves, canva, fluid acrylic paints, pouring medium (or to mix water with PVA glue), cups, wood or other materials sticks for canva, straw/blow dryer/heat gun (optional)
🧘 Fluid art is about embracing the unpredictability and enjoying the creative process. Feel free to experiment with colours, techniques, and tools to discover your unique style!
Instructions:
Prepare Your Workspace
- Cover your work place with a drop cloth or plastic sheet
- Put your canva in a level of wood sticks
Mix Your Paints
- In separate cups, mix paint colours with the pouring medium. The ratio of paint to pouring medium can vary, but a common starting point is 3:1 (3 - colours 1 - pouring)
Make a painting
- Quickly and carefully invert the cup onto the canvas.
- Let the paint sit for a few minutes, then remove the glass from the canvas.
- Spread the paint evenly over the canvas, tilting it (canva) in different directions.
Manipulate the Paint (Optional)
- Tilt the canvas to let the paint flow and manipulate it with a straw/blow dryer/heat gun to create interesting patterns. Experiment with different techniques and movements.
Let It Dry
- Allow your painting to dry completely
⌛ 15 min
🧳 a sheet of paper, pen/pencil, colourful pencils/markers, timer
🧘 to let go, evoke the imagination, relax
Instructions
Find a comfortable place for yourself.
Place a sheet of paper in front of you, put a point somewhere on this paper, close your eyes, and move your pencil across the paper in any way you feel, without thinking of the result, just let it go. Keep your eyes closed. And stick the pencil to the paper, without taking it away from your paper.
You can put a timer on for 5 or more minutes, and when the timer rings, stop your drawing, open your eyes and put away the pencil. Or you can draw your lines for as long as you feel like.
For the next part take colourful pencils/markers/crayons/paint and find shapes and figures in your drawing by colouring them. Let your imagination work for you.
If you want, you can put some calming music on the background. Enjoy the process!
⌛ 15-20 minutes
🧳 a pack of plasticine, pen and notebook
🧘 To relax, focus on your senses while creating the art, evoke creativity, and develop motor skills
Instructions:
Think about some animal that gives you a power, or some animal that you like
Knead plasticine in your hands to make it soft
By using colours of your choice, create an animal from the plasticine, making it as detailed as you can: add some little details like eyes, nose, maybe whiskers.
If you want, you can create a surrounding for your animal or even add there some more animals
In your notebook write what this animal is, where it lives and what it is like, and add a superpower to your creature (for example: it can calm me down when I touch its head). Write what you can “take” from this animal and what this superpower means to you.