![]() ![]() She provides practical, simple suggestions for calming and relaxation activities for children.Īnother method of drawing for relaxation is with a mandala. Kim Peterson, Licensed Professional Counselor, provides practical suggestions on Creating a Calm Down Box on her Kim’s Counseling Corner website. If you are interested in testing the app features out, the tools are available to doodle with on the developers website, Silk-Interactive .ĭon’t have a mobile device you would give to your student? There are many calming and relaxation activities available. Silk app also provides music (not customizable) for a calming effect for those that relax when creating visual designs and music.ĭesigns can be shared and saved. Silk app (2.99) for iPhone/iPad is another drawing app that creates interesting drawings with a few tools to create symmetrical or asymmetrical drawings with different colors that can be blended. The creation can also be saved as an image to your Photo Library. When completed, you can replay a video of your kaleidoscope drawing providing a visual sensory treat. Sounds and visual effects when drawing are added in the mix of the kaleidoscope creation. 99) for iPhone/iPad is a new app that creates a kaleidoscope drawing with a variety of colors, backgrounds and stamp features. It is easy to create the drawings, requiring only basic swipes to create a kaleidoscope design. ) that would fit as an electronic doodle providing visual and sounds/music for adults and students: Here are a couple of apps, one new and one shared (Thank you, Cindi P. Using a mobile device might just be the tool for some who is not exactly artistically inclined, but still like to be creative, like symmetrical visualizations which can be relaxing. Not always do you have access to paper and pencil to draw or you may not exactly have the drawing skills to allow you to doodle (I would resemble that!). They describe art as a method that helps refocus mental energies. The Calm Clinic in their online article “Fool Proof Anxiety Relaxation Techniques”, defines a variety of different strategies including breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, aromatherapy, positive affirmations as well as using art as a form of relaxation. I have students who doodle or draw for relaxation at school, as long as it does not distract from learning – or occlude all of the work on their paper, as a way to relax. Activities that relax come in many forms and are individual for everyone. ![]()
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