Becoming Creative

Becoming Creative is a flexible course to use in your own time at home or anywhere. Over 5 units, the course explores different ways of sharing visual art for wellbeing with children and teenagers. There are varied activity suggestions and ideas to adjust to different age groups.

The course should be suitable for anyone sharing art with children and/or young people to explore how they feel and boost their wellbeing – such as:

play leaders
counsellors
therapists
teachers
youth leaders
childcare providers
parents or carers
wellbeing practitioners
artists
Each of the five units takes a particular theme, highlighting how and why it might be important, and setting out varied, practical ideas, as well as presenting three specific activities with example images:

Unit 1: Introduction – Art Day By Day

Unit 2: Narrative

Unit 3: Abstract

Unit 4: Wide, Wide World

Unit 5: Self & Other

Sign up for Becoming Creative at https://medley.live/children for £20. Please note that you can sign up for the course at any time, just ignore the start date and time given.