Creative Mindfulness: Mandalas Program
From: $386.00
The Therapy at Home Creative Mindfulness: Mandalas Program has been specially designed by our occupational therapists to guide children through a series of hands-on projects for exploring, creating, designing and making a variety of mandalas on a range of mediums.
As children engage with the creative activities, they will have opportunities to build and develop their fine motor skills, executive functioning skills, creativity and self-confidence. To accompany these activities, there are guided mindfulness moments to further encourage and promote relaxation, reflection, present moment awareness and self-regulation.
Created for ages 7 – 16 years.
A block of Group Telehealth Sessions are included with this program.
- Description
- What's in the toolbox?
- What are the benefits?
- What are the goals?
- What skills will we build?
- Telehealth
- Outcome Report
The Therapy at Home Creative Mindfulness: Mandalas Program focuses on guiding children through a series of 5 projects based around exploring, drawing, painting and building mandalas using a variety of different tools. The projects work in order of complexity, so that children can be gradually supported to create more involved artworks over the course of the program.
Through the guided videos and step-by-step instruction cards, children will first explore the creative techniques used to design mandalas. This understanding will then be applied to draw guided mandalas, paint mandalas and construct 3D mandalas using a range of tools and mediums. The culminating activity involves making and painting a coil clay pot to showcase the skills developed throughout the program.
The creative activities are all accompanied by a guided mindfulness moment to encourage and promote relaxation and reflection. These are offered as opportunities to cultivate present moment awareness and develop tools for self-regulation.
The Creative Mindfulness: Mandalas Program can also be purchased as part of the Therapy at Home 2.0 Bundle, which includes the Time in Nature Program and the Movement 2.0 Program.
PLEASE NOTE: The essential components of the toolbox generally don’t change over time unless we are making improvements to the overall program. The specific tools included may differ at times in terms of brand, colour, and other cosmetic differences due to sourcing factors out of our control. This will not affect the therapeutic benefits of the program as intended for the participant. We recommend you only order one program per child to ensure the appropriate use of funds. We cannot tailor toolboxes or programs to suit specific requests at this time. If you order a program for multiple children they will receive the same program and toolbox. All shop listing images are representative of the program theme and not necessarily literal representations of what’s in the toolbox.
What's in the toolbox?
The Therapy at Home Creative Mindfulness: Mandalas Program comes with a toolbox of resources delivered to your door that aligns with the skill building modules in the online program. This toolbox provides a practical and playful element that your child can engage with as they follow along with the videos.
The toolbox includes*:
✓ Paintbrushes, cotton tips, paint pallet and acrylic paints for painting mandalas on various mediums
✓ Round canvas for creating a mandala to display
✓ The Play Way’s A4 creative art pad for designing and creating artworks throughout the program and beyond
✓ Pencil case with HB pencils and coloured marker pens for constructing and decorating mandalas
✓ Air drying clay for creating clay pot mandalas
✓ River stones for creating a mandala to use for mindfulness and meditation
✓ Compass and ruler for constructing mandala patterns
✓ Paper plate, bumper craft bag and craft glue for making 3D mandalas
✓ The Play Way apron to protect clothes while painting
✓ Printed templates to guide the planning and design of the mandala artworks
✓ Instruction card set containing detailed, step-by-step instructions
✓ Facilitator guide to support the delivery of the program at home
* The essential components of the toolbox generally don’t change over time unless we are making improvements to the overall program. The specific tools included may differ at times in terms of brand, colour, and other cosmetic differences due to sourcing factors out of our control. This will not affect the therapeutic benefits of the program as intended for the participant.
What are the benefits?
The Therapy at Home Creative Mindfulness: Mandalas Program aims to deliver the following benefits:
✓ Step-by-step video and written instructions to support children in creating a range of beautiful mandala artworks
✓ Gradually increasing level of difficulty to move children from beginner level mandala projects to more complex tasks
✓ Guided mindfulness moments at the end of each creative activity to support present moment awareness and develop tools for emotional regulation
✓ Improved self-confidence as children are encouraged and supported to express themselves through art
What are the goals?
The Therapy at Home Creative Mindfulness: Mandalas Program aims to achieve the following goals:
✓ Increase ability to follow instructions and maintain attention
✓ Build concentration and sustained focus
✓ Develop task autonomy
✓ Strengthen the small muscles of the hand to help grasp and manipulate objects
✓ Develop fine motor skills
✓ Develop artworks and provide opportunity for engagement in creative exploration and expression
✓ Develop executive function including planning, organising and sequencing
✓ Improve self confidence
✓ Develop strategies for mindfulness, emotional regulation and stress reduction
What skills will we build?
The Therapy at Home Creative Mindfulness: Mandalas Program focuses on skill development in the following areas:
✓ Fine motor skills through manipulating objects and tools, such as cotton tips and paintbrushes
✓ Sensory exploration as children engage with different materials and activate their sense of sight, touch and smell
✓ Following instructions by engaging with step-by-step guided activities to produce various artworks
✓ Giving instructions as children take on the role of guide and coach a partner to create a mandala
✓ Cognitive skills built progressively across the program as children work towards developing their own ideas and designs
✓ Creativity and artistic skills through engagement with tasks that develop different painting and drawing skills, including using acrylic paints and a compass
✓ Emotional regulation by engaging with the guided mindfulness moments for relaxation and reflection
✓ Self-expression and task autonomy as children explore their emotions and thoughts and various ways of expressing these using art
✓ Self-confidence and pride as children design, draw, paint and create artworks from scratch to display and showcase
Telehealth
This program includes a block of Group Telehealth Sessions to support you in successfully implementing this program. To read more about the Group Telehealth inclusion please visit our FAQs.
Outcome Report
This program does not include an outcome report. You can add one next to the ‘Add to cart’ button in the shop and it will appear in your cart as an additional charge.
Therapy at Home provides the option for an outcome report to be included with all Programs. These reports are a summary of the specific program outcomes measured as a result of participating in a specific Therapy at Home Program. This is not a report for decision-making at the full plan level. This is not a report for an end-of-plan review from which a planner can use to make decisions about future funds at a whole plan level.
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