What's the most therapeutic art activity you've tried?

My husband and I took our children to the museum for a special children's event. I was pregnant. They had a special table where everyone was allowed and encouraged to stamp patterns with sponges.

I had been an art major but dropped out to have my family. I sat down at the table and started cutting sponges and making patterns. My husband eventually said he was going to take the kids and go do some other things.And I was cool with that but kept... filling up papers. I got lost in what I was doing. No one sat anything and 2 hours later.My husband came back with the kids and said it was lunchtime. I was floored that so much time had passed. I apologized to one of the leaders. He smiled and told me that he had noticed me sitting therefore a long time but saw my physical mood change. "You needed it." He had set some of my papers aside and showed me, asking if I had taken any art classes. He said that they would recycle the papers into torn art later-- and that really my time was productive.

It's been several decades, but I still remember that day.