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Spring Awakening - Activity #2 - FOR KIDS
F E E L Take a comfortable position and close your eyesWhat is the f irst colour that comes to your mind today?
What colour represents how you feel today?
Take a few breaths
Focus on the colour. How does i t feel?
Open your eyes slowly
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1Take some t ime to notice what's around you and really be in the moment.
Find a place in your home.It could be beside the window in the l iving room, your bedroom, your favourite spot in
the kitchen, anywhere you ’d l ike.
Add to your journey map from last t ime or start a new one on any drawing surface.
A journey map is a place for you to reflect .Document you and your l i fe r ight now.
Come back to i t anytime.
Write, draw, colour anything you want
Share your new creation, your discoveries from your walk, or send us a picture of yourjourney map!
Ask your parent/guardian to share with our Swallowing Clouds community!
You can choose to do the Discovery Walk activity from last week again or skip ahead to:
RECREATE!Use clothes and blankets (or anything you f ind in your home) and a clear space on a table
or f loor to temporari ly recreate some of the images you saw on your discovery walk.Ask your parents/guardians for permission to use the materials before you start and
remember to clean up when you ’re done!
Check out some of our examples (ask your parent/guardian)Look at the Getty Museum Challenge for inspiration
Take a photo or shoot a video of you creating and share i t with us!(You can try to use slow/stop motion video or a t ime lapse, i f you'd l ike)
Step 1:
Take a deep breathand look around
you.
Step 2:
Do you see:
Shapes?
Colours?
Anything that matches yourcheck- in colour?
Step 3:
Take the object thatmatches your check- incolour (or any object) :
Look at i t closely
Look at i t f rom far away
How is i t dif ferent f rombefore?
Step 4:
Once you feel ready, youcan begin the next act iv i ty!
*Optional: Share the colour you were thinking of with each other.
Try to be precise on the tone of the colour by using an adjective to describe i t .
(example: bright green, baby blue, shiny pink.. . )
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