The Art Box

28/07/2026

The last couple of weeks have been mixed with endings and beginnings. Which is exactly where the magic of life is, through the change and opportunities, the adventures and new chapter 🫶🏻✨🥰

A student I have had coming to The Art Box for 3 years is starting a new adventure and I couldn’t be more excited for her. She has worked so hard to get to where she is and I am so grateful to have been able to support and watch her grown along the way. I will miss her (and her mum who came every week as well) and her beautiful creations but will be making sure I keep up with how she is doing.

The Art Box has also started doing holiday classes again and we have some new and exciting classes starting as I have collaborated with my beautiful friend Jane Ludford who brings her amazing talents, unbelievable skills and the most amount of passion for crafts and sustainability I have ever seen in my life 😍

And today my next creative mindfulness programme starts support children with getting to know and understand their emotions and self regulation through crafts and mindfulness.

It’s going to be a good summer.

What will you and your children be creating over the next few weeks, I would love to see, please share below. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!! ☀️

25/07/2026

💕 starting The Art Box holiday classes up again alongside my creative mindfulness and grief work and after so much change, felt daunting. But actually when I look back at the clients that I was lucky enough to work with I remember why I wanted to bring these classes back and bring more wellbeing and creativeness for children and adults into the world 🎨🫶

So grateful to open Facebook to see this recommendation from one of those clients…

25/07/2026

In Ready to Rise, I introduce children to the Worry Monster and they make their own, to give their worry a shape. Something they can talk to, draw, even feed with their worries on paper.

Because here’s the thing: worry that stays vague and formless feels enormous. Worry that gets a name, a face, a job to do, that feels manageable.

Try it at home: ask your child to draw their worry as a monster. Give it a name. Then ask, “what does the Worry Monster need to hear right now?” You’ll often be surprised what comes out, and so will they.

This is a tiny piece of what we build on in Ready to Rise, not therapy, but education, giving children tools like this one for whatever life brings.

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24/07/2026

Children learn to read, write, and do maths. But nobody sits them down and teaches them what to do when they feel overwhelmed, or how to name what they’re feeling in the first place.

Emotional intelligence isn’t something children just absorb. It’s a skill, like any other, and it can be taught.

That’s the whole point of the Worry Monster, the Mind Jar, the sessions where we just talk about what emotions actually feel like in the body. Not fixing anything. Just building the vocabulary and the tools.

This is what Ready to Rise is about, not therapy, but education. Right now, it’s supporting the move to secondary school, but the program is designed to teach children the skills to work through whatever life brings.

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23/07/2026

Something I've always believed — and seen proved over and over in my work — is that creativity is one of the most powerful emotional tools a child has.
When words aren't enough, making something gives feelings somewhere to go. Drawing, painting, creating — it settles the nervous system, builds focus, and gives children a quiet kind of confidence that is hard to find anywhere else.
You don't need to be good at art. You just need to be willing to make a mark.
That's what The Art Box has always been about. 🎨💛

22/07/2026

We tend to think of creativity as a hobby. Something fun, something to fill an afternoon. But creativity actually builds problem-solving, emotional regulation, focus, resilience, and confidence — skills your child uses everywhere, not just at the easel.

Getting creative with your child matters just as much as your child being creative alone. Sitting alongside them, making something together, is connection-building as much as it’s skill-building. If you don’t like the mess send them to me! 😉 or find creativity in writing a story together, painting stones in the garden, make up a game, play hangman, make and decorate a cake together… creativity comes in so many forms.

You don’t need a studio or an art degree for this. You just need a bit of time.

💛 becca_art_box

20/07/2026

Why I don’t do this work with my own son

I’m trained in mindfulness, grief work, therapeutic support. And I still can’t do this work with my own son.

Not because I don’t know how — because I’m his mum. That dynamic doesn’t allow it. He needs it from someone who isn’t holding his packed lunch and his bedtime and his homework all in the same breath.

We put so much pressure on ourselves to be everything for our children. But sometimes the most loving thing we can do is bring someone else in, not because we’ve failed, but because that’s actually how children get the fullest support.

This is what Ready to Rise is about, not therapy, but education. Right now, it’s supporting the move to secondary school, but the program is designed to teach children the skills to work through whatever life brings. It runs as a 1-1 programme and as a group programme.

Message me for details 💛

💛 becca_art_box

18/07/2026

In Ready to Rise, we spend a whole session just learning to notice the body. Where does worry sit? Where does excitement live? What does calm feel like, physically?

Most children (and honestly, most adults) have never been asked this. But your body usually knows what you’re feeling before your head catches up, tight shoulders, a fizzy tummy, a clenched jaw.

Try it at home: ask your child, “where in your body can you feel that?” instead of just “how do you feel?” It’s a small shift, but it gives them a way in, a physical clue they can learn to notice earlier next time, before the feeling gets too big.

This is a tiny piece of what we build on in Ready to Rise, not therapy, but education, giving children tools like this one for whatever life brings.

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17/07/2026

Here are the three summer offerings @ The Art Box.

Art classes, sewing classes and creative mindfulness in preparation for secondary school

message me for details or to book a space for your child

17/07/2026