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Arts For Wellbeing - Ages 9-11 PDF
Arts For Wellbeing - Ages 9-11 PDF
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Identifying one’s emotions plays an important role in creating a self-image for every
child. Prompting children to talk about their emotions, helps them identify coping
strategies that are constructive and helpful in building positive images about the self
and the world.
1. Activities 1 and 2 in each activity set are built on the theme of ‘Identifying
emotions’.
2. The activities are built to ask the individual to reflect on their emotions and help
them express it through art (i.e. colours, body movements, talk and thought).
3. Every activity begins with asking the individual their current emotional state based
on a situation or the range of emotions that they have experienced.
4. If your child has difficulty in putting into words what their emotions are, give them
examples with leading words such as ‘happy’, ‘sad’, ‘angry’, ‘excited’ and so on.
5. Identifying emotions is the first step towards dealing with them. Ensure you
approach your child with care, caution and an open mind which allows them to
express freely both their positive and negative emotions.
6. When children express their negative emotions, talk to them about why they felt
that emotion. Treat the emotion with care, without being dismissive of the causes of
the negative emotion.
7. Help them complete the activity on the theme. Once you complete the activity, ask
your child if doing the activity made them feel good and if they were able to express
all the emotions they were feeling.
Materials required
1. A printout of the ‘Feeling face’ card. Character
2. Small mirror(5cm x 5cm), Pencil,
eraser, Paint/ crayons/colour emotions chart
pencils.
Instructions
1. Take a printout of the ‘Feeling face’
card.
2. Ask your child to close his/her eyes
and think of situations that made
her /him happy, sad, surprised and
angry for a minute.
3. Ask them to say how it feels inside
the body and where it feels so. Have
a conversation on why they feel so?
How do you think it affects your
body and others?
4. Now ask them to show each
emotion (happy, sad, surprised and
angry – one by one).
5. Then ask them to see how it looks
and draw it in their own ‘Feeling
face’ card.
6. Then ask them to colour them with
whichever colour they feel like.
7. Ask the child why they chose the
particular colours for each emotion.
Resource link:
Feeling face card: https://in.pinterest.
com/pin/673780794233071804/
Reference for parents:
https://in.pinterest.com/
pin/713679872179464430/
Happy Sad
Surprised Angry
Happy Sad
Surprised Angry
Materials required
Third page:
1. Use the mirror and see the colour of All about me
your eyes. Now use that colour to
fill in the given space. Now observe
the colour of your hair. Colour it in
the given space.
2. Write what you like about your eyes
and hair in the given space.
Fourth page:
1. Using the mirror, see your face
and sketch a portrait of yourself
and color it.
2. Write what you like about your face
in the given space.
My name has
letters
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My eye
colour is
My hair
colour is
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1. Activities 3 to 18 in this activity set are built on the theme of ‘Coping strategies’.
2. The activities are built to ask the individual to engage in an activity which reflects
their emotional state and work constructively towards generating and sustaining
positivity through it.
3. The activities are scaffolded in such a way that engagement for young children
might be on concepts of family and bonding and as they age there is a staggered
rise in complexity of the activities, allowing them to express complex feelings in a
variety of ways.
4. At the beginning of the activity, ask your child about their current emotional state.
5. Help them complete the activity.
6. If your child was feeling negative emotions at the beginning of the activity, ask
them if doing the activity made them feel better or if it provided them a creative and
productive outlet to vent their feelings.
7. If you child was feeling positive emotions at the beginning of the activity, ask them if
doing the activity helped them retain those positive emotions and helped them build
on their happiness.
8. As a critical thinking exercise, at the end of the activity, you could ask your child
if the activity helped them think about their emotions and why they felt those
emotions. Ask them if they now know how to deal with emotions that cause them
pain and sadness.
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Materials required
1. A printout of the ‘Self-talk’ journal.
2. Pencil, eraser, Paint/ crayons/color
pencils,pen.
3. A5 blank sheets and sticky notes.
Positive self-talk
journal
Instructions
1. This activity is appropriate to do at
I felt good when… I am proud of myself Something that went
the end of the day because… well today was…
Resource link:
https://in.pinterest.com/
pin/586171707732165150/
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Materials required
1. A printout of the ‘Thankfulness’
sheet.
2. Pencil/pen, paint/ crayons/colour
pencils. Thankfulness sheet
3. Sheet of paper and sticky notes.
Instructions
1. On the printout of the
‘Thankfulness’ sheet, ask your
child to fill in one answer for all the
questions in each cell.
2. Use a sticky note to write the
answer.
3. Spend some time with your child,
talking about what they are
thankful for and what you are
thankful for.
4. Ask your child to choose any of the
five things they have written and
illustrate it to relive those memories.
Resource link:
https://in.pinterest.com
pin/225250418846404150/
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What act of
What location What product What teacher What room in
kindness are
are you are you are you home are you
you grateful
grateful for? grateful for? thankful for? thankful for?
for?
What trait
What part of What What happened
What ordinary of your
your day are household toady that you
object make personality are
you thankful task are you are thankful
you grateful? you grateful
for? grateful for? for?
for?
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Materials required
1. A printout of the ‘All About Me!’
sheet.
About me
2. Pencil/pen and paint/ crayons/ My Favorite colour is.. My Favorite subject is.. I’m most happy when i..
colour pencils.
Instructions
1. This activity can be conducted with The last movie i watched
was..
My Favorite food is.. I really hate it when
Resource link:
https://in.pinterest.com/
pin/788833690960213839/
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The last movie i watched My Favorite food is.. I really hate it when
was..
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Materials required
1. A printout of the ‘Feelings’ sheet.
2. A printout of the ‘Coping’ sheet.
What a feelings
3. Pencil/pen, woolen thread /twine sheet looks like
and glue.
Instructions
1. Give your child the ‘Feelings’ sheet
and ask them to pick a colour for
each of the negative emotions they
feel and ask them to write why they
feel the emotion in the given space.
2. Give them the ‘Coping’ sheet and
ask them to write down how they
would cope up with the emotion.
3. Once the Feelings sheet and the
Coping sheet is done stick this
coping sheet behind the feeling
sheet.
4. Then place the Feelings and the
Coping sheet together and make a
hole at the top of each sheet and tie
them with a woolen thread /twine.
5. Ask your child to keep these sheets
safe for revisiting this when in need.
Ask your child to pick two of their
most favourite moments from the
sheet and draw a picture of it.
Resource link:
1. Coping ideas prompt for the
parent : https://in.pinterest.com/
pin/425308758561277970/
2. Coping ideas output will be
like: https://in.pinterest.com/
pin/801148221203037690/
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Materials required
1. A printout of the ‘Behind My Anger’
sheet. Behind my anger
2. A pencil/pen.
Instructions
1. Ask your child to write out why
they feel the emotions (fear,
hurt,guilt,confusion,fear, loneliness
etc.) in the ‘Behind My Anger’ sheet.
2. Ask them to write their coping
techniques for the same.
3. Assure your child that they will not
be judged for whatever they write
on the sheet and that they can
choose to not write either.
4. Talk to your child if they want to
have a conversation on what’s
behind the anger.
5. If the child does not wish to talk
to you, spend some time talking to
your child saying that you are there
to support them and assure them
that you will help them overcome
their negative emotions.
Resource link:
1. https://in.pinterest.com/
pin/342414377922402446/
2. Reading material for parents :
https://washburn.org/resources/
for-families/resources/children-and-
feelings/
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Anger
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Instructions
1. Give your child a printout of the
Emotion Reaction sheet.
2. Ask them to stick the checkered
flags inside the appropriate box
according to the questions being Emotion reaction
asked. They can stick the flags in sheet
more than one box if they feel the
need to do so.
3. Ask the following questions:
a) What do you do when you have
a fight with your friend?
b) What do you do when your
parents scream at you?
c) What would you do if you lost
something you really like?
d) What would you do if you’re
having a bad day?
e) What would you do if you fail
your exam?
f) What would you do if you fight
with a sibling/family member?
4. Now after they finish sticking the
flags, ask your ward to color the
center of their sheet with only
colors that calm them. They should
continuously breathe in and breathe
out while coloring.
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Hit/become Keeping
Scream Paint/Draw Cry Play a Sport
violent Quiet
Listen to Do a craft,
Throw things Watch TV Read a book Eat
music Ex: Origami
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Materials required
1. Newspaper/ any other paper to
make a paper bag.
Stress buster bag.
2. Scale.
3. Paper.
4. Sketch pens.
5. Glue (if needed).
Instructions
1. In this session, we will be making a
Stress buster bag.
2. Ask your child to first make a paper
bag.
3. Once they’re done making the bag,
ask them to make chits out of a
piece of paper (chits in a size that
they can write or draw in).
4. Once they’re done with this, ask
them to write or draw on it the
things that are causing them
anxiety and stress right now.
5. Next step is to take these chits and
put it in their stress buster bag and
shake it as vigorously as they can
for 2 mins to try and release all
their stress.
6. After this, ask them to blow into
their paper bag with as much force
as they can, and then crush the bag
with the same amount of force.
7. Ask your ward how they feel after
doing the activity.
Resource link:
https://youtu.be/ESuxIr_i1XI
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Materials required
1. Paint.
2. Brushes.
3. Paper.
4. Some water.
Resource link:
https://theinspiredtreehouse.com/
partner-painting/
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Materials required
1. Sketch pens.
2. Paper.
Sample
3. Colors.
Instructions
1. Ask your child to take a piece of
paper and draw on it things that
make them angry or sad. But there’s
a twist.
2. They have to draw only by tracing
their hands and fingers to create
the drawing. Examples of how
to do it is given in the below
link: https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=XwFFjO_6YKc
3. Once they are done drawing this,
ask your ward to color this as
colorfully as they can!
4. Their hand traced masterpiece is
now ready!
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Materials required
1. Paper.
2. Sketch pens. Simon says
Instructions
1. Play this activity in a spacious
space in the house.
2. When you say Simon says followed
by an instruction, your child has to
follow those instructions.
3. Say the following sentences for the
activity (You can of course add your
sentences to this):
a) Simon says shake your body.
b) Simon says shake out your
anger.
c) Simon says shake out your
stress.
d) Simon says paint what makes
you angry on a piece of paper.
e) Simon says shake your hands
and say things that make you
happy simultaneously.
f) Simon says jump up and down if
you’re happy.
4. After completion of the activity, ask
your child to express how they feel
by drawing it on a piece of paper.
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Materials required
1. Paper.
2. Sketch pens.
Life scenery
3. Colours.
Instructions
1. Ask your ward to draw (only draw
and not color) the scenery given
here.
2. Now ask them to draw or write all
the happy moments of their life on
the mountains and on the clouds,
and all the sad and angry moments
on the valley and on the ground.
3. Now ask them to colour their
drawing according to these
emotions.
4. Once this is complete, you have
your Life Scenery!
Resource link:
https://arttherapytechniques.blogspot.
com/2010/10/september-and-october-
art-therapy-tasks.html
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Materials required
1. Newspaper/magazine.
2. Glue stick. My ideal day
3. Scissors.
4. Paper/any other material to make
collages on, ex: chart paper.
Instructions
1. Your child is going to be making a
collage today!
2. The topic of the collage is “What
would your ideal day look like?”
3. This collage can be as colorful or as
big as your child would like it to be.
4. Help them cut out pictures from the
magazine and paste them on the
chart paper to make their collage.
Resource link:
https://www.expressiveartworkshops.
com/expressive-art-resources/100-art-
therapy-exercises/
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Materials required
1. Colors – Paint/crayons/Color
pencils.
Prayer flag
2. Sketch pens.
3. Paper.
Instructions
1. Your child is going to create a
Prayer flag for the Universe today.
2. Amidst all the panic and stress of
Corona Virus, ask your child to
create a prayer flag for the universe.
3. The prayer flag will consist of all the
things that your child would like to
tell people to help boost positivity
in them. They can make this as
colorful as possible!
4. Use the materials to write, colour
and cut out the flag.
5. The prayer flag is now ready, and
you can stick this or hang it on your
wall!
Resource link:
https://arttherapyreflections.blogspot.
com/2010/04/reflecting-on-prayer-
flags.html
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Materials required
1. Newspaper/magazine.
2. Glue. Calming collage
3. Scissors.
4. Paper/any material that they can
be used to make a collage, ex: Chart
paper.
Instructions
1. In this activity, your child will be
making a calming collage.
2. Ask your child to make a collage
out of photos, drawings, words and
sayings that make them feel calm.
3. Also discuss with them the different
things they do to make themselves
feel calm.
Resource link:
https://www.expressiveartworkshops.
com/expressive-art-resources/100-art-
therapy-exercises/
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Materials required
1. Paint.
2. Brushes.
Paint a window
3. Sketches.
4. Paper.
Instructions
1. Ask your child to draw and paint a
window.
2. Once they’re done with this, ask
them to write all the negative things
they want to throw out the window,
around the window and all the
positive things they want to invite
into their life, inside their window.
3. This exercise will help the children
identify the positives and negatives
of their life, and what they would
like to voluntarily invite into their
life. You can now hang or stick your
window on a wall!
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Materials required
1. Emotion cube template.
2. Glue. Feelings cube
3. colour pencils. game
Instructions
1. Using the sample emotion cube
template draw the outline of the
cube on a thick sheet of white paper
2. Draw only positive emoticons on
the six sides
3. Cut along the outline
4. Apply glue where mentioned and
make a dice
5. Children can play the game with
their sibling or you. Role the dice
and ask them to do a role play or
share a situation. Have conversation
around that. Make it light and fun.
6. You can narrate a story or sing a
song on the emotion. You can also
play dumb charade.
Resource link:
https://seedlingmentors.org/feelings-
cube-game/
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1. Activities 19 and 20 in this activity set are built on the theme of ‘Circle of safety’.
2. The activities are designed to help your child think about who and what makes them
feel safe.
3. In order to prompt your child to think about circles of safety, ask them what they
are thankful for and who is their favourite person to talk to about the things they
like and don’t like.
4. Remember to treat your child’s feelings and opinions with care and to not be
dismissive about them.
5. Help them complete the activity.
6. At the end of the activity, ask your child to assess their emotions about engaging in
the activity. Ask them if it made them feel happy.
7. Discuss with your child whom and how they would approach to talk about their
emotions.
8. Ask them how they would help people who ask for their help to talk about similar
feelings and thoughts.
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Materials required
1. Printout of the ‘Being Thankful’
sheet.
Being thankful
2. Pencil/pen.
Instructions
1. This activity has 21 Daily things
that are often taken for granted.
Ask your child to read through it
and respond/write down why they
are thankful for these things.
2. Then ask your child to draw five
things they are grateful for.
Resource link:
Sample layout: https://in.pinterest.
com/pin/593771532103012293/
On the Content:
https://lifestyleanytime.com.au/daily-
things-for-granted/
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Materials required
1. Chart paper
2. Wooden clip Thank you card
3. Glue.
4. Scissors.
5. Water colors
Instructions
1. Encourage your child to draw and
cut out their favourite shape on the
chart paper.
2. Stick the cut-outs to the wooden
clip.
3. Make various sizes of the same
shape or many shapes of the same
size.
4. Colour each shape with different
water colours.
5. Use the shape-stamps you’ve
created to print on greeting cards.
6. Make this thank you card for
anyone at your home and write a
thank you note to them.
Resource link:
https://www.fantasticfunandlearning.
com/diy-heart-stamps.html
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Pray with Us
NalandaWay’s efforts have been towards bringing a little more
kindness and empathy in the world. Through our initiative
‘Art for Wellbeing – A Parent’s Guide’, we hope we can achieve
these goals by seeking to remove fear and anxiety and help
everyone become more empathetic, kind, creative and expressive
individuals.
@nalandawayfoundation | www.nalandaway.org