Creative Kids
Executive Functioning and Social Skills Development
A clinician-led, play-based group program where K-12 students build executive functioning and social skills through creative and social activities.
Creative Kids
Executive Functioning and Social Skills Development
A clinician-led, play-based group program where K-12 students build executive functioning and social skills through creative and social activities.
A Play-Led Approach to Executive Functioning and Social Skills
Executive functioning and social skills are often taught through worksheets, lectures, or reward charts. Those methods can explain a skill, but children learn best by doing. Our licensed clinicians lead small groups of students through creative and social activities where planning, focus, flexible thinking, and teamwork are practiced in real time. We build on each child’s strengths and meet them where they are. This whole-child approach helps every learner grow skills they use in the classroom, at home, and with friends.
A Play-Led Approach to Executive Functioning and Social Skills
Executive functioning and social skills are often taught through worksheets, lectures, or reward charts. Those methods can explain a skill, but children learn best by doing. Our licensed clinicians lead small groups of students through creative and social activities where planning, focus, flexible thinking, and teamwork are practiced in real time. We build on each child’s strengths and meet them where they are. This whole-child approach helps every learner grow skills they use in the classroom, at home, and with friends.
The Foundation for Lifelong Progress
Executive functioning is the set of mental skills behind everyday success: planning, organizing, focusing, managing time, shifting between tasks, and regulating emotions. Social skills are how students connect, communicate, cooperate, and solve problems with others. Together, they help students keep track of assignments, stay with a difficult task, bounce back from setbacks, build friendships, and feel a sense of belonging, in the classroom and for years to come.
When these skills are still developing, it can show up as missed assignments, frustration, trouble working in groups, or difficulty making friends. The good news is that these skills are not fixed. With the right activities and support, they grow, and students flourish. The Creative Kids Program gives students the foundational structure through creative and social activities, guided by our clinicians and designed for each age and grade, so they can succeed in school, with friends, and beyond.
The Foundation for Lifelong Progress
Executive functioning is the set of mental skills behind everyday success: planning, organizing, focusing, managing time, shifting between tasks, and regulating emotions. Social skills are how students connect, communicate, cooperate, and solve problems with others. Together, they help students keep track of assignments, stay with a difficult task, bounce back from setbacks, build friendships, and feel a sense of belonging, in the classroom and for years to come.
When these skills are still developing, it can show up as missed assignments, frustration, trouble working in groups, or difficulty making friends. The good news is that these skills are not fixed. With the right activities and support, they grow, and students flourish. The Creative Kids Program gives students the foundational structure through creative and social activities, guided by our clinicians and designed for each age and grade, so they can succeed in school, with friends, and beyond.
How It Works
The Creative Kids Program Model
In our standard four-week model, students move from learning a skill to using it on their own, turning planning, focus, and teamwork into everyday habits. Administrators can customize student groupings, location, and activities to fit their school’s needs.
How It Works
The Creative Kids Program Model
In our standard four-week model, students move from learning a skill to using it on their own, turning planning, focus, and teamwork into everyday habits. Administrators can customize student groupings, location, and activities to fit their school’s needs.
Building Skills for School and for Life
Sessions run three days a week and are grounded in occupational therapy. Students move through art, music, and movement, with sensory breaks built in and a calm corner available whenever they need a reset. Groups are inclusive by design, bringing together students with a wide range of learning styles and support needs.
For schools, the program arrives ready to go. We provide background-checked staff, all materials, and the documentation many grant-funded programs require, including a formal proposal or service agreement, baseline and post-program assessments, and an end-of-program summary. Families also receive weekly tips and reflection questions to carry the skills home.
Plan
Therapeutic Goal: Planning and organizing help students break big tasks into steps, manage time, and follow through, from school projects to lifelong goals.
Focus
Therapeutic Goal: Focus and working memory let students hold information in mind, follow directions, and stay with a task long enough to learn from it.
Shift
Therapeutic Goal: Flexible thinking helps students adjust when plans change, find new solutions, and recover from mistakes, a skill that grows more valuable every year.
Regulate
Therapeutic Goal: Managing emotions and sensory needs helps students stay calm under pressure, make thoughtful choices, and feel ready to learn and connect.
Communicate
Therapeutic Goal: Clear communication, in whatever form works best for each student, helps them share ideas, ask for help, and advocate for themselvesy.
Collaborate
Therapeutic Goal: Working well with others builds the teamwork students will rely on in classrooms, on teams, and in future workplaces.
Connect
Therapeutic Goal: Understanding others’ feelings and points of view helps students build lasting friendships and a sense of belonging.
Resolve
Therapeutic Goal: PWorking through disagreements teaches students to listen, find fair solutions, and repair relationships, skills that support healthy connections for life.
Built by a team schools and families trust.
Our team of occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, and adaptive physical education specialists brings deep experience supporting all students. We pair that clinical expertise with art, music, and movement so students build executive functioning and social skills in ways that respect how they think, feel, and connect.
Seeing the Whole Student
Every student brings a unique mix of strengths, sensitivities, and interests. Our clinicians notice what helps each one engage, whether that’s a movement break, a quieter space, or a different way to join in, and shape each session so every student can take part.
Skills That Transfer
We don’t rely on scripts or one-size-fits-all lessons. Students practice planning, flexible thinking, and teamwork inside real projects, building the same skills they need to finish an assignment, join a group, or handle a change in plans at school.
Celebrate Every Learner
We embrace the many ways students create, move, communicate, and connect, and we build on what each one does well. We are not here to change who students are. We are here to help them grow with confidence, just as they are.
Seeing the Whole Student
Every student brings a unique mix of strengths, sensitivities, and interests. Our clinicians notice what helps each one engage, whether that’s a movement break, a quieter space, or a different way to join in, and shape each session so every student can take part.
Skills That Transfer
We don’t rely on scripts or one-size-fits-all lessons. Students practice planning, flexible thinking, and teamwork inside real projects, building the same skills they need to finish an assignment, join a group, or handle a change in plans at school.
Celebrate Every Learner
We embrace the many ways students create, move, communicate, and connect, and we build on what each one does well. We are not here to change who students are. We are here to help them grow with confidence, just as they are.
Contact Us
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