All children regardless of their life situation shall enjoy life and learn equal. The benefits of art therapy in educating children would be similar to children with special needs. The following are examples of art therapy activities where they can engage into:
Collage
It is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. A collage may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork, photographs, a piece of moss, glued to a piece of paper or canvas.
Paper-mâché
Paper-mâché, ( French 'chewed-up paper' due to its appearance ) is a construction material that consists of pieces of paper, sometimes reinforced with textiles, stuck together using a wet paste (e.g., glue, starc, or wallpaper adhesive). The crafted object becomes solid when the paste dries.
Clay
With the use of clay, children are encouraged to mold objects of different shapes, which includes letters and numbers for younger children. They can either paint them with tempera paint or watercolour after the clay has been dried.
Doll Making
A doll is an object that bears a close resemblance to a human being. Dolls have been around since the dawn of human civilization, and have been fashioned from a vast array of materials, ranging from stone, clay, wood, bone, cloth and paper, to porcelain, china, rubber and plastic. Kids could dress up the dolls with different materials.
Batik
Batik is a cloth which traditionally uses a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. Due to modern advances in the textile industry, the term has been extended to include fabrics which incorporate traditional batik patterns even if they are not produced using the wax-resist dyeing techniques.
Basket weaving
Basket weaving (also basketry, basket making, or basketmaking) is the process of weaving unspun vegetable fibers into a basket or other similar form. Basketry is made from a variety of fibrous or pliable materials—anything that will bend and form a shape. Examples include pine straw, animal hair, hide, grasses, thread, and wood.
Quilting
It is a sewing method done to join two or more layers of material together to make a thicker padded material. The process of quilting uses a needle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_needle and thread to join two or more layers of material together to make a quilt. Typical quilting is done with three layers: the top fabric or quilt top, batting, or insulating material and backing material.
Weaving
It is the textile art in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads, called the warp and the filling or weft (older woof), are interlaced with each other to form a fabric or cloth. The warp threads run lengthways of the piece of cloth, and the weft runs across from side to side. Cloth is woven on a loom, a device for holding the warp threads in place while the filling threads are woven through them.
Rug hooking
Rug hooking is a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen or rug warp. The loops are pulled through the backing material by using a crochet-type hook mounted in a handle (usually wood) for leverage. In contrast latch-hooking uses a hinged hook to form a knotted pile from short, pre-cut pieces of yarn.
Pottery
Pottery is made by forming a clay body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures in a kiln to induce reactions that lead to permanent changes, including increasing their strength and hardening and setting their shape.
Stained Glass
The term stained glass can refer to colored glass as a material or to works made from it. Stained glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to conceive an appropriate and workable design, and the engineering skills to assemble the piece.
Origami
Origami (折り紙?, from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper") is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century CE and was popularized in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form. The goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques, and as such the use of cuts or glue are not considered to be origami.
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