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This resource sheet includes information and a visual how-to about creating a three dimensional house from a 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper and some simple paperfolding steps. Exploring issues around home in the context of safety planning, safe places, and helping to contain overwhelming feelings associated with worry and fear are important for children and adolescents from violent homes and have been impacted by the terror of domestic violence in their daily lives. Art expression in trauma intervention can create a safe, welcoming, and non-threatening environment that can support traumatized youth in sharing their story through the creative process and artmaking.
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Gretchen Miller, MA, ATR-BC, CTC is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist and Certified Trauma Consultant practicing in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio area. Her work specializes in children, adolescents, women, and families impacted by trauma, domestic violence, and grief & loss.
Visit www.gretchen-miller.com for more information about Gretchen’s work, services, and interests.
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This resource sheet includes information and a visual how-to about creating a three dimensional house from a 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper and some simple paperfolding steps.
Exploring issues around home in the context of safety planning, safe places, and helping to contain overwhelming feelings associated with worry and fear are important for children and adolescents from violent homes and have been impacted by the terror of domestic violence in their daily lives.
Art expression in trauma intervention can create a safe, welcoming, and non-threatening environment that can support traumatized youth in sharing their story through the creative process and art-making.
This paper house intervention and the process of paperfolding combines mindfulness elements with the structure of containment to help youth feel safe and explore experiences rooted in trauma and loss through art. The intervention also creates opportunity for symbolic storytelling or creative
writing about the three dimensional piece.
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” ~Maya Angelou
Materials Needed:
•8 1/2 x 11 paper
•Scissors
•Glue Stick
•Markers, Magazine Photo Collage, Color Paper & Other Materials
Themes to Explore:
•Safety Planning•Shelter Adjustment•Creating a Safe Place•Moving & Separation•“What Makes a House
a Home?”
Creates:•Repetitive, here & now
focus through paperfolding process
•Containment of emotions connected to worry, fear, uncertainty
•Opportunity for symbolic storytelling
© 2011 Gretchen Miller, MA, ATR-BC, CTC
How to make a paper house:
