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True North Academy
Indianapolis, IN
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Behavioral Arts: Exploring Our Emotions Through Art
Funded Sep 2, 2018
The moment the donated items arrived, we were instantly grateful, humbled, and ready for the next challenge. Most of our students have only been exposed to art through classes in school. It was an entirely new idea to use art to learn about our brains and connect that to our emotions. Many of our students will ask to have their art hung on our walls, showing how proud they are of their work.
One project our students have participated in is creating a sensory bottle. This is a bottle filled with a recipe of ingredients creating an item that fits into the palm of their hands. They watch glitter settle in the bottle as they take slow deep breaths. This calms our students and will hopefully give them the skill of using this practice to "reset" when they are in real world situations.
Our students in middle school enjoy making these and our high school students enjoy delivering these bottles to teachers and administrators and explaining how they reset their amygdala by taking deep breaths for 90 seconds (about how long it takes for the glitter to settle). Without help from our donors, our students would not have experienced this full lesson.”
With gratitude,
Mr. Sprinkle
This classroom project was brought to life by Advancement Center for Washington Township Schools and 6 other donors.

My students come from many walks of life. Each of them has a story they can share in their own words. The personal story of each student allows them to use their voice. At times, it is next to impossible to put some things into words and can be better explored through brief but powerful art projects. Because we are an Alternative school, our students do not have access to many electives such as Art class. We are learning through our students successes that emotional outlets provide the opportunity to recognize and change their mindset enough, that perhaps without even realizing it, they too will succeed. With items such as Vegetable Glycerin and Karo Syrup, our students will make sensory bottles. They will be able to work on focused attention practices with this project. Eventually, we would like to see our students teaching others how to take deep breaths and calm their emotions. Using butcher paper, our students will explore the concept of body image by drawing what they think they look like on the outside. Using copy paper, we will create repeated patterns inside structured shapes as a calming therapeutic practice. We will write words on symbolic comedy/tragedy masks, indicating those things which we do on the outside that do not accurately represent who we are on the inside. These will be destroyed as we remove our masks and learn how to become who we truly are.

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