Practice gratitude by creating an art piece as a gift for someone special you’re grateful to have in your life.

Craft a yarn painting on cardboard using Mod Podge, lay yarn to form a star and its outline, then add a tan interior and gray border.

Create abstract artwork with oil pastels while listening to music, blending colors with cloth, and exploring mood and tempo to guide artistic expression; consider oil pastels as a go-to medium.

Draw in the dark to relax before sleep, moving your pen without seeing the paper to quiet self-talk and ease nighttime emotions.

Art therapy exercises help you heal by closing your eyes and drawing whatever comes to mind to process emotions, relax before bed, and transform spontaneous sketches into evolving artworks.

Choose to send a message in a bottle by releasing negativity or sharing positivity, using a note or drawing to send away negative emotions or offer encouragement.

Choose colors to express personal meaning by tracing or coloring the provided abstract turtle image, using the attached file to color in any way you see fit.

Create a handmade booklet to map your ideal day from morning to evening, using folding and cutting to produce six to eight pages for this art therapy exercise.

Document a minimal color ideal day booklet with morning dog care, client walks, work from home, house projects, and a meal, then reflect on how the day matched the ideal.

Practice coffee-filter art by coloring the outer circle, drying with clips, then transfer the dried design to thick watercolor paper to create a vibrant tie-dye effect.

Engage in an art therapy exercise that guides you to confront mirror-based self-criticism and replace it with affirmations posted around the mirror, recited for 21 days to foster self-acceptance.

Create positivity rocks that reflect your mood with words, doodles, and color to support healing through art therapy. Experiment with magazine words and animal-print designs for relaxation and inspiration.

Create a collage of your favorite season using magazine cutouts, scissors, and glue to highlight its standout aspects, guiding reflection and healing through art therapy.

Depict a summer scene using a single color and varied patterns, with leaves, dots, squiggly lines, and a straight cross, created with green and brown pens for mindful healing.

Explore how color relates to emotion by drawing color squares for each color, labeling associated emotions, and illustrating current feelings in a brain diagram.

Explore Guatemalan worry dolls and the Mayan practice of placing dolls under the pillow to shed worries, and learn to craft your own worry doll as an art therapy exercise.

Create a dream catcher to catch negative thoughts and bad dreams that keep you awake, using two popsicle sticks and yarn to hang above your bed for better sleep.

Create a personalized dream catcher using household supplies like coffee stir sticks or popsicle sticks, yarn, and optional beads, feathers, and ribbon, weaving a web to catch dreams.

Express yourself through henna art by drawing designs on your hands with cones. Watch colors shift from dark to orange to brown as the paste dries, inspired by online motifs.

Perform a 60-second brain dump of negative emotions on a lined piece of paper without stopping to think, then review what surfaced—anxiety, fears, anger, and resentment.

Forget perfection and celebrate your unique experiences by creating the ugliest piece of art on a flat surface, then reflect on how imperfection shapes healing.

Create a foil animal that represents you and imagine its actions, then elevate it on a stick with a foil river beneath as part of the sculpture exercise.

Join the secret Facebook group Creating with Tatyana to connect with Tatiana Ambrose and fellow students, discuss creativity, current projects, and course questions.

End this art therapy course and explore future expansions with personalized one-on-one help. Leave a review to help future students and reflect on 1–2 ideas that sparked your creativity.