Fri Feb 03 2012
Hudson first-graders at Evamere Elementary celebrated National Mental Health Awareness Day May 6 with emotion.
"Mental health is how we think, feel and behave," Peg Tipka, a local art therapist with Creative Counseling, told the students. "We are here to show you new and different ways to express your feelings."
On May 6 and 7, Tipka, Jan Hammond, a certified music practitioner, and the Coalition for Children's Mental Health joined together to provide a music and art program to all 350 first-graders at Evamere.
"Our hope is that by providing a fun, interactive program for kids we will raise awareness about mental health and give them a medium to let them express themselves through their creativity in music and art," said Danielle Hunt of the Coalition for Children's Mental Health.
"My feelings are a work of art" was this year's theme of National Mental Health Awareness Day, recognized and celebrated through various events and activities all over the nation on May 6.
In Hudson, Evamere students listened and demonstrated how different tempos showed emotion and feeling when played on banjos, drums, shakers and Appalachian dulcimers that Hammond brought to share.
Students were also asked to select an emotion and write the word in white crayon across their posters.
Then they used color, lines and shapes to describe that emotion on paper with watercolors and crayons.
For more information about the Coalition for Children's Mental Health and other community-awareness activities, visit www.HudsonCCMH.org.
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