ABSTRACT

This section can be described in the broadest sense as ‘using art’, ie visual and tactile materials such as paint, finger paints, crayons, felt-tipped pens, pastels, paper and glue, clay and dough, Plasticine, newspapers and magazines, plaster bandage (Mod-Roc), glitter glue, felt and foam, card, dried leaves and flowers. Many people feel safer with tangible materials that they can sit and organise. These techniques assist people to expresss their feelings and ideas in different materials and to give form to them.