Create a place that feels safe, calming, relaxing and secure to you. What would that place look and feel like? Would it be a place you’ve already been or a place made up in your imagination? Maybe a mix of both? Think about what it means to feel secure and safe, then create an image that embodies those feelings and traits.

Dig into the last seven days and explore some of the positive moments that you’ve had. Is there a theme between them? Is there a word that you can identify that encompasses some of your positive experiences? This prompt asks you to create a symbol that represents something positive in your life recently.

Stressors, we all have them. How do you let your stressor into your life? Sometimes we push them deep down and pretend they’re not there, and they come up in other ways. Sometimes we allow them to take over our mood, our ability to remain present and our relationships. This prompt encourages you to explore a stressor you have been struggling to move past and how you have allowed it to enter and impact your life.

Explore what brings you feelings of calmness and safety. Is it a place, person, experience or environment? Create an image that represents that space for you and begin to recreate those feelings through the art making process.

Create your own poem with the words found from your favorite book. This art therapy prompt combines both writing and art making. Use the words or phrases you find to spark your writing and art process.

Flip through a book to find a word or phrase that stands out to you. Create an image that to explore your connection to the word or phrase that you chose. This free association art prompt takes the thinking out of starting to create. Create whatever image comes up in relation to what you’ve found in the book.

This art prompt starts with one negative emotion, then asking you to explore the opposite emotion. Using bleeding tissue paper and watercolor paper, you will create what each emotion looks like to you by exploring the last time you felt each emotion. This prompt encourages you to explore how you experienced that emotion and how you felt that emotion within your body.

Art Prompt: Create what your identity looks like. Using watercolor pencils and a piece of 4x4 inch watercolor, explore your identity through lines, shapes and colors. The smaller paper as your canvas can help with the broad exploration of your identity. Have you ever really sat down and thought through who you are and what makes you, you?

This art directive incorporates free association into art making. Select an image as your starting point. Create an art response to that image and why that image “spoke” to you today. Use an array of materials in your creative process.

We’re highlighting the positive qualities of others in our lives. Identify someone that you’ve always looked up to and then create an image that highlights one of their positive qualities.

Within this art prompt, you are asked to create an image of what it feels like when things in life are going well. This image explores feelings opposite of stress and fear.

Explore something in your life that appears unexpectedly or suddenly. A person, type of person, feeling, behavior or thought. This directive is called the “pest” because of its nature to show up often unwanted. Explore through art making or journaling.

This prompt encourages exploration of your life’s journey through creative expression. This directive can explore specific defining experiences within your life.

Through art creation, explore your most consistent or powerful emotion this week.