Glass Pebbles

Great for most ages…I recommend 8 and up. You can create with images, magazines, printed copies of your loved ones, and words.

This prompt is great for adults and kids 8 and up. Kids will need some help so a group project together would be ideal if working with kids.

One of the pebbles in the first photo, I made when I was a kid. After one of my loved ones died, I made pebbles for my family members. It was helpful for me as a kiddo and I find myself enjoying doing it as an adult as well. My hope is that you’ll find it cathartic to create. (I am not a medical professional nor do give medical professional advice. All that I put on art your grief is from my own lived in experience).

I hope you’ll find this prompt useful for whatever you are needing. Try not to overthink it - and just start. There is no “correct way” to approach any of our Art Your Grief prompts, each of us will approach and experience them differently.

Creating provides space to exhale, sometimes when our bodies can’t. Creating can also help us step into spicy places and allow us to notice what is going on externally and internally. It can also be used as a way to check out - sometimes with pain this is exactly what’s needed to distract while in physical pain.

My hope is that each prompt can be tucked away to use again and again when needed as another tool to add to your tool kit. Sometimes we notice the feelings coming up as we create and sometimes we are completely unaware. Both serve an important purpose to ground and/or to process.