The Art Box

25/06/2026

💛 What does the Creative Mindfulness Course actually include?

Here's what your child gets across eight sessions this summer:

🎨 Creative art activities in every session
🧘 Short, gentle guided meditations designed for children
📖 A beautiful comic strip story that runs through the whole course
🃏 Their own personal set of emotion cards they build session by session
🫀 Body awareness and breathwork practices they can use anywhere
🌟 A toolkit of emotional tools to take home and keep
☕ A drink and biscuits — because the details matter

All materials included. Small group of six. Headcorn.

Message me to find out more or secure a place. 💛

24/06/2026

The most common thing I hear from parents:

"My child would never sit still for mindfulness."

And honestly? They're probably right, if mindfulness means sitting cross-legged in silence, eyes closed, not moving.

But that's not what mindfulness actually is. Not for children.

For children, mindfulness is making something with their hands and noticing how it feels. It's breathing out slowly while they draw. It's learning to name a feeling before it takes over. It's moving their body and paying attention to what happens.

The children who "would never sit still for mindfulness" are often the ones who benefit from it most — because they're not asked to sit still. They're asked to create. And that they can do.

That's exactly how we work at The Art Box. 🎨💛

24/06/2026

Welcome to The Art Box
mindfulness for children and families. 🎨

I'm Becca, and I've been working with children and families for years, using creativity, art and mindfulness to build emotional intelligence, resilience and self-awareness.

This is a space for curious children, busy families, and anyone who believes that how we feel matters as much as what we achieve.

I'm so glad you're here. 💛

23/06/2026

🎨 The Art Box Creative Mindfulness Course is back this summer — and I'd love your child to be part of it.

Eight sessions across the summer holidays for children aged 10–11, using art, creativity and short guided meditations to build emotional confidence, self-awareness and resilience.

Perfectly timed for children heading into secondary school in September.

📅 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30–11:45am
28th July — 20th August · Headcorn
👥 Maximum 6 children · all materials included

Drop me a message for full details or to book a place. Spaces are limited. 💛

22/06/2026

Here's a question worth sitting with:

Who has been making your decisions?


Because if you've never consciously identified your own values, the things that matter most to you, deep down, then chances are you've been living by someone else's.

Your parents'. Your partner's. Your culture's. The version of you that existed before everything changed.

What would it feel like to live by your own compass instead?

22/06/2026

🧠 Fun fact of the brain:

Your brain produces an estimated 70,000 thoughts every single day.

That's a LOT of thoughts. Most of them come and go without us even noticing.

One of the most powerful things we can teach children, and ourselves, is that we don't have to act on every thought we have. We can notice them, let them pass, and choose which ones deserve our attention.

That's mindfulness in action. 💛

21/06/2026

Summer 2026 workshops at The Art Box
For fun and preparing for secondary school…

20/06/2026

What actually happens at an Art Box session? 🎨

Honestly? A lot of making, a bit of mess, and children going home genuinely proud of what they’ve created.

Each session we explore something different — different materials, different techniques, different ways of making. There’s no right or wrong. Just creativity, connection and fun.

Drop-in art classes for 6–12 year olds Mondays and Wednesdays 10am -12 this summer in Headcorn.
£25 per session — all materials included.

Message me to book 🌿

20/06/2026

Whose values are you living by?

Whose values are you living from?

Yours?

Or the ones you inherited without ever being asked?

❖ The Compass Within Values Workshop

19/06/2026

One of my favourite things about running the Creative Mindfulness Course is watching children arrive in the first session a little uncertain but leave with something they've made, something they understand about themselves, and a quiet kind of calm they didn't have before. By the end of the 8 sessions they have learnt so much about theirselves and it shows in all the best ways.

Teachers have noticed it. Parents have noticed it. The children notice it themselves 🎨

spaces still available for the summer course — message me if you'd like to know more.