Art Therapy Drawing Worksheets – 97 Prompts

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What's inside this resource

These art therapy worksheets are just the thing you need for any elementary school counseling lesson! Not only are they engaging, but they are the perfect way to support students as they allow those who may struggle with verbal communication be able to express themselves through drawing!

This resource includes 97 different prompts that focus on different topics such as trauma, anxiety, emotions, coping skills, self-esteem and more. The pre-made worksheets can help your students with a more concrete visual of the prompt and is perfect to use in individual and small group counseling sessions.

A google slides presentation and bulleted list of each drawing prompt is perfect for tailoring to each student's specific needs. The presentation and drawing list is even perfect to use in push-in lessons or as a small group activity!

Using art or drawing as a therapeutic tool helps students explore and process complex feelings in a safe and creative way. Younger students typically don't have the language needed to process their emotions, so this resource will help to bridge the gap and break that barrier! These worksheets help to guide students with prompts that explore various social emotional skills, and with so many different methods of delivery included, you are sure to reduce prep time!

What's Included?

❤️ Google Slides Presentation With Each Prompt

❤️ Bulleted List of Drawing Prompts

❤️ 97 Drawing Prompts

❤️ Pre-Made Worksheets

Some Ideas for Use Are:

⭐ Individual Lessons

⭐ Small Groups

⭐ Push-In Lessons

⭐ Social Emotional Morning Meetings

⭐ Emotions Check-In Activity

⭐ Icebreakers

⭐ SEL warm ups

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Express a specific emotion or personal experience through a drawing prompt rather than words.
Practice a coping visualization, such as 'draw your stress monster, then draw yourself defeating it.'
Reflect on personal history by drawing a 'past, present, and future' scene or a postcard of where they were vs. want to be.

Teaching tips

Use the compact bulleted list to quickly choose a prompt suited to a specific student's current concern, then print just that single illustrated page from the 100-page file rather than the whole set.
Pair heavier prompts (e.g., 'draw your trauma,' 'draw your biggest fear') with a follow-up conversation rather than assigning them as standalone independent work.

Skills covered

Emotional self-expression through drawing -- students respond to open-ended prompts (e.g., 'draw your biggest fear,' 'draw your safe place') using visual art rather than words.
Symbolic representation of feelings -- several prompts ask students to design a mask or monster representing a specific emotion such as anxiety, anger, or trauma.
Reflective narrative prompts -- some pages pair a drawing with a 'tell the story' or 'what happened next?' prompt, combining visual and verbal reflection.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

social emotional learning
art therapy
self-expression
counseling

Topics

art therapy drawing prompts social emotional learning art therapy drawing counseling worksheets art therapy worksheets counseling prompts sel

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