The Art Room
The Art Room
The Art Room is a project that uses art to support children and young people's mental health and wellbeing.
At Place2Be, we use creativity as a tool to help children thrive. 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 what an important role they play 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.
Activities from the Art Room
Our Activities from the Art Room offers a selection of creative projects – each one explores a wellbeing theme through creative activities, stories, and conversation. These activities can be used to help children, young people, and adults nurture their relationships together whilst having fun.
Creative Wellbeing Projects
The Creative Wellbeing Projects empower school staff to use creative activities to support children’s mental health in classrooms.
Each project explores a theme related to mental health and is aligned with PSHE/RSHE outcomes. School staff are guided in using stories, sensory games, and creative activities to build supportive relationships in their class and school.
These projects are exclusively accessible to alumni from our mental health training for school staff.
Changes to the Art Room provision
Over the years, the Art Room has changed how its work is delivered.
The project was initially developed as therapeutic art groups facilitated in schools. However, in 2019 Place2Be carried out a business review of The Art Room service, which concluded that in its original format, the provision had limited accessibility and was not financially sustainable.
Now, the project aims to develop accessible and affordable ways to continue supporting children’s mental health through creativity and art.
Find out more
Get in touch by email: theartroom@place2be.org.uk