Dates:
- Mon, 19 Oct 2026, 17:00–Mon, 16 Nov 2026, 18:30
Color in Life – Diversity Through Art is an accessible art course for children with special needs and their parents, offering shared creative work with an art-therapeutic approach. During the course, participants explore materials and forms of expression through their own strengths in a safe and encouraging atmosphere.
Color in Life – Diversity Through Art is an accessible art course for children with special needs and their parents, offering a shared creative experience in a supportive setting. The work is based on each participant’s own interests and individual support needs. The child and parent work together as a pair, exploring a variety of materials and tools with guidance from the instructor.
Each pair can move forward calmly at their own pace. A range of supportive tools is available, including visual supports, fidget toys and ear defenders. The course takes a multisensory approach: for some, sensory work based on touch may feel most natural, while others may prefer using a brush, sponge or different printing tools.
During the course, participants explore colours and easy techniques such as salt painting, modelling and printing with a variety of fun objects. They can also make their own fidget toy and print a fabric tote bag to take home.
The course is suitable for children with special needs who benefit from individual support and accessible participation. In art-therapeutic work, the final result is not what matters most; the shared process and the experience of being seen and heard are at the heart o...
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