About the Book

“This is an indispensable resource to connect with children and help them share their inner world." —Dr. Steven Baron, author of Teaching With A Strength-Based Approach: How To Motivate Students And Build Relationships

Making art is not only enjoyable for children but significant in their emotional, cognitive, and social development. Draw and Discover: An Art-Making Journal for Kids contains carefully created prompts to help children become aware of their feelings, name them, express them and pay attention to the physical sensations that accompany them.

This engaging and playful journal features: 

  • 60 unique activities and design elements that unleash your child’s creativity and self-expression. 
  • Prompts developed by a seasoned art therapist for maximum social & emotional learning through the joy of art-making. 
  • Family-centric guides for kids and adults to share an enriching, art-making experience.

Structured enough to give children guidance and open-ended enough to give them freedom to explore and discover what emerges, the journal is perfect for children who like to draw as well as those children who prefer not to write.

Rachel Brandoff

Associate Professor and Coordinator of Art Therapy at Thomas Jefferson University (Ph.D.

Fueled by years of experience working as an art therapist with children, Caren Sacks gives children a place to express themselves and teaches caregivers that even a scribble is productive... I'll recommend this to my students, clients, and clinical supervisees.

Dr. Steven Baron

author of Teaching With A Strength-Based Approach: How To Motivate Students And Build Relationships

This resource must be on the bookshelf of all school counselors, therapists in clinics, or private practitioners who work with children... This is an indispensable resource to connect with children and help them share their inner world.

Beth Gonzales-Dolginko

EdD

Caren Sacks has brought together her years of experience as an art therapist and parent to create a mental wellness tool for kids that is user friendly, practical, and well planned.

Meet the Author

Caren Sacks, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT, ATCS, is a Licensed, Board Certified Creative Art Therapist and Board-Certified Art Therapy Supervisor who has been providing clinical services in a variety of settings for more than forty years. In addition to a master’s degree in Art Therapy she completed a certificate in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program at the New Hope Guild Center and was a Full Adjunct Professor in the Art Therapy Master’s Program at The College of New Rochelle. Caren lives in Mamaroneck, NY, with her husband and dog, Ziggy.