Activities from the Art Room
Activities from the Art Room
At Place2Be, we believe that art is a creative tool to develop resilience and connect with others.
Through creative expression, children and young people can explore their feelings, identity and relationships.
Creative expression and play are crucial for children’s healthy emotional development. Research in the fields of neuroscience and psychology has found that they play an important role in helping our minds and bodies develop.
By engaging in creative activities, children can be supported to build positive social and emotional connections with others. In this way, creative play can help children learn about themselves, how they relate to others, and the world around them.
Our Art Room team are specialists in using art to support and enhance children and young people’s wellbeing.
These projects offer space to explore a wellbeing theme through creative art activities, stories and conversation. Each project can help children, young people, and adults nurture their relationships together whilst having fun.
You can use the art and crafts activities provided at home or in school with children of different abilities and ages.
Art Room in schools
Place2Be’s Art Room team can deliver classroom workshops, creative peer mentoring training or staff training in your school. If you would like more information about our in-school delivery, please email theartroom@place2be.org.uk.
Coming soon: Connecting through Creativity sessions
Connecting through Creativity is a four-session model which supports school communities, classes or groups with collective challenging experiences; offering a universal approach within other systems of support to foster positive wellbeing, nurture togetherness and help children & young people draw on their strength both individually and collectively through creative expression.
The model:
- includes four 2-hour workshops each exploring a different therapeutic theme
- is for up to 30 students
- is delivered by Place2Be Art Room Practitioners
- has materials provided
This provision is being piloted in the autumn term and will be available for primary and secondary schools by the end of 2025.
Register your interest
If your school is interested in the Art Room’s Connecting through Creativity sessions, please email theartroom@place2be.org.uk and we will share more information.
Activities from the Art Room
Know Yourself, Grow Yourself
Place2Be's Art Room have created an art activity that encourages children to embrace self-awareness and promotes personal growth.
Know Yourself, Grow Yourself Activity
Wellbeing Playlist: Uplift, Calm and Connect
This art and music activity was put together by Place2Be’s Art Room and the Lang Lang International Music Foundation, joining in the mission to inspire children and young people through music.
Wellbeing Playlist Uplift Calm and Connect
River Journey
Help children explore their feelings about leaving primary school and starting secondary or high school
River Journey: Moving Up to Secondary or High School
Playful Patterns: Connecting With Others
This creative wellbeing activity, designed alongside CREDU and MYTIME Young Carers, helps primary-aged children unwind, have fun, and connect with others.
Playful Patterns: Connecting With Others
My Colour Palette: Exploring Feelings
We designed this wellbeing activity to help primary-aged children develop their emotional literacy. The project gives children an opportunity to think together about how we express our feelings in different ways.
My Colour Palette: Exploring Feelings Wellbeing Activity
Calm: Soothing Worries
This activity pack provides creative ways to help primary-aged children calm their worries by settling their thoughts, grounding themselves, and exploring how to share their feelings with someone they trust.
Calm: Soothing Worries
Tuning In: Mindful Listening
Developed in conjunction with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, this project helps young people listen mindfully to how they feel and express themselves through music and art.
Tuning In: Mindful Listening
Space: Navigating Friendships
This Space project offers an opportunity to explore themes of friendship and belonging through an easy art activity.
Download our Space Project (1.7mb)
Celebrating Diversity
Discover our collection of resources designed to help children and young people explore themes of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Celebrating Diversity
The Creative Gardener: Nurturing Self-Belief
Nurture children’s self-belief with this wellbeing activity by developed in conjunction with the Royal Horticultural Society’s Campaign for School Gardening.
The Creative Gardener: Nurturing Self-Belief
Weather: Noticing Feelings
This project supports children to understand and express their feelings through art activities with the theme of weather, with inspiration from artist Xavi Art.
Weather: Noticing Feelings
Portals: Exploring Changes
Developed with CBBC's Art Ninja and Place2Be Champion Ricky Martin, this project is designed to support children going through changes in their lives.
Portals: Exploring Changes
Growth (in partnership with WWF)
This project provides a supportive space to think about and explore children’s feelings through an art activity by taking children on a journey through nature.
Download our Growth project (1.2mb)
Keyworkers: Paper Links
This fun activity and video provide creative ways to explore how parents and children can stay connected even when spending time apart.
Art Room Paper Links Project