Art and Mental Health Toolkit by Solent Mind

Art can have a powerful effect on your mental health and wellbeing. It can help to bring you into the moment, calm anxious feelings or express difficult emotions. You don’t need to be a perfect painter or a skilled sculptor, just grab some simple art supplies and get creating!

Ideas: Think painting to music, drawing with your eyes closed, or making abstract lines, shapes, squiggles, or doodles across a page. 

Here's a short guided toolkit to get your creative juices flowing and give you tips for using art to benefit your mental health