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This activity encouraged everyone to explore the textures, colours, and smells of natural pigments as they made a painting for all of the senses. Everyone independently explored their own creative and artistic skills to support their personal wellbeing and self-esteem.

Resources

Access to water
Paint brushes
Something to protect surfaces (for example, newspaper or tablecloths)
Natural pigment powders (see instructions)

Instructions

Natural colours
The person leading the activity should split everyone into small groups. Everyone should move to sit with the rest of their group.
The person leading the activity should give each group a set of natural pigments in pots.
Each group should chat about what the powders smell like. What colour paint do they think each pigment will make?
Remind everyone not to sniff too close to the powders – if they get too close, some of the powder might go up their nose!
Each group should slowly add water to one of powders and mix it with a paint brush to make a paste.
Some groups may need adult support to pour the water and mix the paste. Encourage everyone to give it a go and take it in turns to pour and mix.
Each group should repeat step three with their other powders to make a set of paint pastes.
Everyone should chat about whether the powders turned into the paint colour they were expecting. Were there any surprises?
We’ve included some questions to help you reflect in the pink box below.
Earth painting
Everyone should get a piece of paper and put it in front of them.
Everyone should look at the paste paints they’ve made and decide what they’d like to paint with them.
Some people may need help choosing what to paint. It could be something from their imagination, or they could be inspired by the smell of the paints or the things they can see around the room.
Everyone should spend some time using the paste paints to create their own work of art.
You may need to remind people to wash their paint brushes when they switch colours (or to use a different paint brush for each colour of paint).
Once everyone’s had enough time to finish their paintings, they should take it in turns to show the rest of their small group their pictures.
Every small group should talk about the pictures everyone’s created, how they chose what to paint, and how they used the natural paints.
Everyone should share one thing that they like about each person in their group’s picture.

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