Art with Heart
Spreading the healing power of creative expression.
How to Lead Healing Art Activities with Kids
Learning is a direct line to empowerment for both kids and adults. Here, you’ll find resources designed to empower you and help you confidently lead Art with Heart programs with kids.
Learning is a direct line to empowerment for both kids and adults. Here, you’ll find resources designed to empower you and help you confidently lead Art with Heart programs with kids.
"I had the most enlightening conversations about trust - how it's built or broken, who client's trust or don't trust and why. I'll continue to use this activity when I meet with youth."
- Sound Therapist, about using the Safety Net activity in Ink About It
Creative Expression
in One Minute
Leading AwH activities with kids is simple and effective! Our basics contains all the ins and outs like tips for helping kids use creative expression, talking about their art, and using art as a meaningful outlet for emotions.
Activities for Home
Understanding the impacts of COVID is a stressful and confusing time for our community. Here are activities to support healthy conversations about the emotional effects of the virus. We also collaborated with Childhaven on a caregiver’s activity guide and community resource sheet to help families.
How do you feel?
Sometimes it’s hard to know what we’re feeling until we stop and think about it. This is a game to help us connect how we feel, with how we express ourselves.
Grief Resources
Art activities and expert video that use creative expression to help kids process their feelings during the grief journey. Generously funded by Safe Crossings Foundation.
Make Your Emotions Move
Sometimes it’s hard to know what we’re feeling until we stop and think about it. This is a game to help us connect how we feel, with how we express ourselves.
Caregiver Guides
Guides to help Caregivers talk with kids about grief and create a supportive environment of healing. Includes activities to explore grief through creative outlets that encourage sharing and expression. Generously funded by Safe Crossings Foundation.
Helping Kids After A Death
Considerations and art activities that can help you talk with kids about death, create a supportive environment of healing, and help a kid explore their grief.
Talking to Kids When
Anticipating a Death
Examples of how to talk with kids about dying with considerations for age, individual strengths, and cultures to support healthy processing during grieving.
Art Extension Activities
Activities from our curricula that each compliment a page from one of our therapeutic activity books. Along with art-making, each video walks through supportive emotional goals, how to lead the activity, and prompt discussion questions to use in practice.
Art Techniques
Time lapse videos that can help you build technical skills with a variety of mediums.
Learn from the Experts
Click here to listen to our partners and advisors thoughts on how Art with Heart resources are a compliment to classroom SEL programs, before/after school programming, and trauma-informed schools.
Explore Our Partners
Sound is one of King County's most comprehensive providers of mental health and addiction treatment services.
The Eluna Network's camps and online resource center are invaluable for families looking to build community with others facing loss, or experiencing family addiction.
The National Alliance for Grieving Children (NAGC) is a nonprofit organization that raises awareness about the needs of children and teens who are grieving a death.
Friends of Youth partner with youth and families to provide the relationships, resources, and skills they need to attain personal growth and success.
APA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States.
NAMI is the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) brings a singular and comprehensive focus to childhood trauma to raise the standard of care while increasing access to services.
Neighborcare Health provides comprehensive health care to families and individuals who have difficulty accessing care.
Communities in Schools works in public schools to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Seattle Children's provides hope, care, and cures to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible through.
Committee for Children advocates for and researches educational programs to advance the safety and well-being of children through social-emotional learning (SEL).
Boys & Girls Clubs provide millions of kids and teens a safe place to develop essential skills, make lasting connections and have fun.
Seattle Public Schools is the largest K-12 school system in Washington State and has a deep commitment to every student's journey.
YMCA builds communities where all people, especially the young, are encouraged to develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind, and body.
Every student in Highline Public Schools is known by name, strength, and need. They graduate prepared for the future they choose.
The National Funeral Directors Association provides professional resources for all facets of funeral service through education, information, and advocacy.
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