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Grieving through Art

Date
January 17, 2011
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Kate's Club
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Art is an excellent form of self-expression, especially for a child dealing with grief. It is healing for the kids in all of us. The image below is of the memory box that Claire Hecht created to remember her dad.

Memory box by Claire as a memorial to her father

The recover-from-grief.com website shares some ideas for projects you can do on your own:

  • Draw out your emotions, with pencil, pastels, and ink
  • Discover the fluid and vivid world of painting
  • Find 3D stress relief through sculpturing
  • Build a memory box to reconnect with your lost one
  • Build a scrapbook together as a family
  • Start your private “grief journal”

Below is a list of supplies to get started on an art project to help celebrate the memory of your loved one:

Art Therapy Children Supplies:
Crayons
Pastels
Colored pencils
Set of brightly colored markers
Tempera paints and/or watercolor set
Spiral bound pads of art paper/ sketch pads
Scissors and glue
Old magazines and for Younger Children:

Finger paint set
Play-Doh set

Would you like to share your story? Please get in touch with Kate's Club! KC has free grief support with grief resources, grief counseling resources, grief training, and volunteer work in Atlanta and surrounding places in Georgia. Kate's Club is a growing nonprofit in Atlanta with grief specialists for kids and young adults going through bereavement. Our goal is to make a world where it is okay to grieve.

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