Boost your sense of well-being through mindfulness and the expression of gratitude! Teens and tweens will craft pocket-sized booklets that they can carry with them to remind them what they are grateful for in their lives. Program participants will be using magazines and scrapbook paper to craft small pages on playing cards that represent items, events, and people that they appreciate and love in their lives. These cards will then be assembled into a small booklet that they can carry with them for inspiration, motivation, and positive feelings.

The process of making gratitude books allows each individual to reflect deeply to find things that inspire joy and appreciation in their lives. They will also be able to express themselves artistically by creating personalized pages of pictures, collage, and inspirational writing in whatever way best expresses their inner-vision. In the end, teens can look at these happy-books whenever they feel blu…