Methods of art therapy, entertaining exercises, coloring mandalas, an antistress ball, pillows, toys will help relieve nervous tension and relax. Sometimes it is not easy to cope with a bad mood, nervous tension. Specially designed art therapy exercises will help get rid of this; pillows, antistress toys; balls that are so nice to wrinkle in your hands.
Art therapy methods and exercises for blues
Art therapy is one of the methods of dealing with stress. It includes artistic and creative techniques. Simple exercises show the physical and mental state of a person, heals this and that. Adults become children for a while, forget about their problems, get great pleasure from what funny art therapy exercises include.
Here are the most popular types of such psychotherapy. It:
- IZO therapy, when a person finds peace of mind through drawing;
- game therapy;
- fairy tale therapy;
- dance therapy (dancing);
- music therapy;
- bibliotherapy (reading certain books);
- color therapy;
- sand;
- photo therapy;
- multi-therapy;
- mask therapy (drawings on the face).
As you can see, everyone can find something to their liking. At the same time, it is not necessary to be able to draw, even blots on a sheet can turn into fashionable art. One of the art therapy exercises is based on this. First exercise
For it you will need:
- ink;
- ink;
- water;
- gouache;
- sheet of whatman paper;
- brush.
Dilute the gouache in water, drop the resulting solution several times into the center of the Whatman paper, make spots nearby with ink and mascara. Fold the sheet in half, gently pressing the two halves together. Expand the resulting creation. Connect your imagination, thinking what exactly you managed to portray.
Second exercise
It will also unleash your imagination and artistic ability. Take for him:
- felt-tip pen or pencil;
- paper;
- paints.
With a writing object, move along the sheet of paper, creating various lines. See what happened. Cover parts of the drawing with paints to create accents. Come up with a short story that evokes the art you received.
Do this art therapy with your children. After creating the drawing, the children will come up with a plot based on it, and you tell a little story that your creation will bring back to you. Third exercise
Take for him:
- several sheets of whatman paper;
- glue;
- a pen or pencil;
- paints;
- brush.
This training should be done together. Glue the sheets together, lie on them. Have a helper trace the contours of your body. Stand up, color your self-portrait to convey your inner world. Use a certain color for different parts of the body, combine colors.
Fourth exercise
It is based on the collage technique you are already familiar with. Create it using all kinds of materials: magazine illustrations; natural materials; unnecessary things; Photo.
As you can see, for such a collage, old headphones were used, wires from them, a giraffe figurine, a tassel, a button. Stick the whole thing onto a sheet of Styrofoam glued to the cardboard. Spray some bronze spray paint on top and here's an antique engraving in front of you.
How to deal with the blues of mandalas with coloring pages?
They will also help you find peace of mind, reveal your potential, abilities. Mandalas are Buddhist symbols, each of which is drawn on a specific occasion. Well, this is traditional. You can choose the template you like, you need to paint it, thereby show your imagination, but without going beyond the provided framework. The result is patterns called zendals.
This coloring of art therapy involves the use of 4 colors: green; yellow; red and blue. But if you wish, you can use any color. They create patterns on a black and white mandala using only crayons. Paints, felt-tip pens, markers are not used. Pencils help you focus, immerse yourself in the picture, color it the way you want.
In this case, some parts of the pattern can be left unscathed. A person practicing this technique becomes calmer and more balanced. Check out the examples to see what anti-stress patterns you can create.
For the first, only shades of blue were used. The pattern, designed in a single color scheme, looks calm and pacifying. For those who love holidays, bright colors, we can recommend the second mandala. The first means thoughtfulness. If it is closer to you in spirit, you can download an anti-stress pattern to print and color.
The second mandala is called “Festive”. If you are in such a mood, download it, decorate it as you like.
Coloring antistress for adults can be different, include images of nature, animals, plants. Think about what you have a soul for, use such pictures for creativity.
As you can see, the creator of this canvas made a dark background to highlight fragments of his creation. Various shades were used for the flowers, green tones for the foliage. The owl looks more like a fairy-tale character, drawn with a blue pencil.
In the second photo we see the underwater world. You can download this picture, color it as you like.
When there is snow outside the window, it is pleasant to look at the scarlet berries of wild strawberries, white flowers, juicy green foliage. All this you will create, with the help of another coloring picture.
How to make an antistress ball from the blues yourself?
How pleasant it is to wrinkle this pliable product in your hands, giving it a different shape. All kinds of bulk products, water, glass stones, plasticine can serve as a filler for such a ball. If you have any sculpting mass or soft clay left over, use them.
Fill a ball with one of these masses, tie it with a ribbon, decorate it to your liking. If you want to make funny little people, then glue the eyes to them, paint the facial features with a marker or felt-tip pen. Decorate the upper part with threads, fabric, you can tie an elastic for hair here.
It's nice to twirl such a trinket in your hands, giving it a different shape.
Such an antistress ball can be filled with flour, and so that it keeps its shape - with plasticine. But in the latter case, it will turn out to be rather tight. If you want to see how to make the filler so that it is pliable on the one hand and keeps its shape on the other, then read about it.
Take:
- spoon;
- a bowl;
- cheap hair conditioner - 3/4 cup;
- corn starch - one and a half cups.
Knead the mixture of starch and conditioner into a container. It's nice to knead it in your hands, to feel the delicious smell of the conditioner.
This mass is filled with anti-stress balls. Crafts from this homemade plasticine will help you get in a good mood. You can decompose the mass into separate containers, add dyes, mix.
Children will be happy to make ice cream, cake for dolls from such plasticine.
And here's another way to make an anti-stress ball. For him, take:
- starch;
- paper;
- balloon;
- scissors;
- marker.
Roll a sheet of paper like a funnel, pour starch here.
Tie the end of the ball into a knot, tighten well, cut off the top rubber ring. Draw facial features with a marker. When they dry up, you can take a new toy in your hands, wrinkle it heartily.
The next anti-stress ball is not only pleasant to the touch, but also looks very beautiful.
For this thing, take:
- dense ball;
- water;
- decorative glass stones;
- plastic bottle;
- plastic container;
- scissors.
Place the pebbles in a plastic container, rinse them with water, and drain. Pour into a plastic bottle, fill with water. Pull a transparent ball over the neck, transfer the contents of the bottle into it.
Tie the top end well, after which you can try the toy in action.
Take a transparent ball so that colored stones can be seen through it. To increase strength, you can take not one, but two balls, put the first in the second. You can make anti-stress balls a little different. Fill a regular ball with starch, tie, and a nice toy for snapping is ready. Nowadays balls in a grid are very popular.
When pressing on a toy, it is interesting to watch how its parts pass through the holes, then return to their original position. For this anti-stress you will need:
- regular rubber balloon;
- for filling balls Orbiz or a viscous mixture of Slime;
- a piece of a fishing net;
- scissors.
Place the slime or orbiz balls in the balloon, tie it on top. Cut a circle of the desired size from the net, lift its edges up, tie. Now you can press on the toy, thereby relieving nervous tension.
Pillow toy for relaxation with blues
They are done in such a way that a person can put a pillow under his neck while lying or sitting in a chair and relieve muscle tension. Such a piece of furniture pleases with its appearance, has a pleasant texture to the touch.
An antistress cat pillow is created from:
- felt;
- fleece;
- filler: padding polyester, holofiber, barn owl;
- threads.
- Resize the presented pattern. Choose fleece in matching colors. Cut out the details of the torso on this fabric. As you can see, it consists of several parts. They need to be sewn together, leaving the holes not yet sewn into which you will sew the tail and paws. Also, do not grind your head yet.
- Cut out the eyes and nose from black and white felt, sew these details on the cat's face. Sew the two halves of the ears, pin them between the face and the neck of the animal, sew on the wrong side.
- Align the cat's tummy with its upper part, placing two front paws on the side. Turn the workpiece out through the hole on the rump to the front side, fill it with filler. Put the 2 hind legs of the cat here, the tail, sew the resulting hole on the hands with a blind stitch.
- To add volume to the legs and tail, fill them with filler. Push it in with the back of your pencil.
- Mark the animal's fingers with thread stitches using a needle. Sew the cat's whiskers, the toy pillow is ready.
If you have remnants of fur, old tights, you will get a wonderful anti-stress toy.
For her you will need:
- a piece of fur;
- the remains of knitted fabric or children's tights;
- threads;
- filler;
- scissors;
- needle;
- cord.
Various materials can be used as a filler: sand; cereals; Styrofoam. In this case, the seeds of plums were taken, but other berries or fruits are also possible. The bones must be well washed and dried completely so that they do not rot later. Cut off the toe or other part from the children's tights. Sew on one side, lay in filler, sew up hole.
You now have a padded inner case. Sew a loop, thread or piece of fur to it, which will soon become the hair of the antistress toy.
To make an outer cover, place the blank on a piece of fur or soft, tactile fabric. Cut it in a circle, collect the edges on a needle, tighten, cut off its excess, having previously tied a couple of knots.
After you sew on the eyes, you can use the toy for its intended purpose. It will appeal not only to adults, but also to children; it will help them develop fine motor skills.
If you are interested in other tempting ideas on this topic, check out how three balloons and air can be used to make a nice anti-stress toy.
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