How we are helping Los Angeles Youth

A MENTAL HEALTH CARE RESOURCE FOR LOS ANGELES YOUTH
In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Office of Education Wellbeing and Support Services, we created a new expressive art activity book titled, Discover at the Ocean. We plan to donate these books to youth and families in LA in the coming days and months. There will be an English and Spanish version. View the English version below.

FUNDING NEED
We donated our time and talent in creating the book. We are looking for funding partners to help us cover the printing costs. We are using a printer in Los Angeles. Through our collaboration with the LACOE we have the capacity to reach 1.3 million youth. In addition, we plan to donate these books to the Children's Hospitals in Los Angeles to be used for art therapy and mental health care. We can share details with anyone looking to help!

NEW COLORING PENCILS NEEDED
Students Helping Students
We started a movement across the country of students rallying their friends, family and schools to donate NEW boxes of coloring pencils and crayons. If you are not a student and would like to join us we need you! Let us know if you can join the movement and we'll send you details.

ART AFTER TRAUMA - When children and youth are experiencing something traumatic, they find it difficult to talk about what they are feeling. Creativity allows for a safe way for them to express their emotions. When doing pages in this book with school counselors and teachers, it cultivates connection and opportunity for important conversations to take place.

REGULATING THE NERVOUS SYSTEM - Coloring helps us regulate our nervous system. It is also known that spending time in nature has a powerful way of balancing our natural rhythm and helping us feel calm, grounded and regulated. This is why all of our coloring pages are focused on the beauty of nature and the outdoors. The reflection activities on each page promote positive coping skills and personal growth.

This educational expressive art activity book, Discover at The Ocean, is appropriate for youth grades K-12. Leaders know how to adapt it for each grade level.

A Peek Inside - Discover at The Ocean

A Creative Journey

Discover at The Ocean
a creative journey of hope, healing & growth
Our expressive art coloring activity books take children and youth on a creative discovery that starts on page one and comes full circle on the last page. The beginning of the book presents the idea that a child’s life is like a beautiful tree. As they interact with the reflective questions and express themselves, they cultivate the life of their tree. The coloring pages surround the child with the beauty of nature. From this place, they can learn, discover and grow from a place of peace, openness and curiosity. As they approach the last page, the child shifts from focusing on their own life and begins to realize they have beautiful leaves flowing from their tree that can bring hope, healing and kindness to others. This empowers children and youth to realize they have the ability to make the world a better place, in their own unique and creative way.

  • NATURE

    To discover the beauty of nature and wildlife and how spending time in nature has a powerful way of balancing our natural rhythm and helping us feel calm, clear and regulated.

  • CREATIVITY

    To discover hope, healing and growth in our lives while interacting with the pages of our coloring activity books through creativity, self-expression, writing and coloring.

  • REFLECTION

    To discover how reflecting on a positive question can shift our perspective and help guide our inner transformation while discovering our value and voice.

The Layout

We create high quality educational expressive art coloring activity books to help children and youth discover hope, healing and growth in their lives. Our coloring activity books have 40 interactive pages.
The left side has reflection for personal growth and self-expression.
The right side has a beautiful nature themed coloring page.

Hope * Healing * Growth

Expressive Art

Our high-quality expressive art coloring activity books help children and youth have a safe way to:
Process their Emotions
Self-Regulate
Foster Courage
Develop Positive Coping Skills
Reduce Anxiety
Express Themselves
Discover Hope
Cultivate Healing
Reflect and Grow
Know their Value
Find their Voice
and ultimately...
Realize how they can make a positive difference in this world.

How our books help

"Thank you for your partnership in providing each of my students your Discover Series expressive art coloring activity books. These books have been a FANTASTIC resource to help facilitate and teach social emotional learning and are extremely powerful for me as a school psychologist because of the conversations it helps facilitate with my students. With reflective topics like explore, growth, and kindness, we learned about ourselves, set goals for the future and set ourselves up for success. We had incredible discussions about identity, cultures, customs and what makes us unique. We talked about how to cultivate confidence and how we could lift others up. The books cultivate balance in our students’ lives by providing them an outlet to use their minds to reflect and tap into their hearts and emotions through creativity and coloring. What a lot of students appreciated about this book was it gave them a space to talk about what was on their mind, their feelings, their goals, their hopes, their fears, their dreams. As a school psychologist, this is one of my favorite tools in my work with my students."
Adam Parker
School Psychologist
Heritage Elementary School
Denver, CO

  • FOR WHAT AGE?

    The books are created to meet children and youth where they are.
    They are simple enough you can adapt it for elementary age yet deep enough the middle school age and high school teens can go on a deeper journey of personal enrichment and growth.

  • FOR COUNSELORS

    Art, when used as therapy, is part of nonverbal communication for children who may not be able to articulate their emotions and feelings. The coloring opens up a window into their heart and the reflection creates a safe way to start important conversations.

  • FOR TEACHERS

    Teachers often use these books as a "soft start" for the day. There are 20 key reflective themes that make it easy to focus on one theme per week. This is a tool you can also use for personal enrichment and growth that is easy to flow into your overall planning.