My client had the sweetest idea — an art therapy truck that drives around town, stopping at the home of anyone who needs a little creativity session. (What if you could call it and it would appear, like the Knight Bus?)
I don’t have a lot of experience with art therapy, although I’d love more. Here are some ideas for supplies to stock the art therapy truck (from this book on homeschooling – I copied the supplies list because it was great and added a few items). If you have ideas or actually practice art therapy, I’d love more suggestions.
Painting: tempera, watercolors, acrylics, puff paints, fat, thin, and foam brushes, sponges cut into shapes
Writing: washable markers, oil pastels, Prisma color colored pencils, charcoal, Flair black pens for outlining, highlighters, chalk, drawing pencils, gel pens for black paper, white board markers and white board
Surfaces: colored and white paper, stationary with pretty borders, brown paper bags, butcher paper, sticky notes, notecards, cardboard, wrapping paper, aluminum foil, poster board, card stock, envelopes, canvas, wooden blocks, river stones, coloring books, felt, black paper for gel pens, tissue paper, boxes, paper plates, coffee filters
Fasteners: glue sticks, glue, glue guns and crazy glue, scotch tape, double-sided tape, glue dots, Mod Podge
Accessories: scissors, googley eyes, pipe cleaners, sequins, stickers, rubber stamps and ink pads, stencils, yarn, modeling clay, Sculpey baking clay, fabric scraps, wallpaper samples, magazines, pompoms, rickrack, popsicle sticks, clothespins, mini shells
