The BB4K gallery

Calm jars! We reflect that our busy brains can look like the jar when it’s just been shaken up but as the glitter begins to settle, we invite the children to slow their breath and focus only on the jar. As it begins to ‘calm down,’ we encourage them to feel calm with it.

Take a look at these ‘Owl Babies’ that BB4K’s group for children aged 3-5 made together. This is a story about owl babies who worry where their mother has gone, but find joy and relief when she flies back to the nest. Through reading the story and creating their own owl puppets and nest, the children explored themes such as separation anxiety and parental attachment, and were encouraged to explore these feelings through play.

BB4K’s ‘heart to heart tree’. Heart to heart is an attachment-based group that focuses on building child and parent relationship. Written on the leaves are evaluation words of how the parent and child felt at the end of the session. Each colour resembles a different week of the programme and each leaf echoes one parent and their child.

Child’s worry box

Masks showing different emotions

Head full of emotions created by child attending BB4K group sessions

Iceberg showing feelings hidden under the surface

Drawings created by children attending BB4K groups

Sand jar representing different emotions, completed during a group session

Feedback after a group session

Playdough art from our Oxford group

‘What’s in your heart/shield’ drawings from our Oxford group

Volcano feelings

Playdough family art by our under 5s

Parent steps exercise from the parent group that runs alongside the children’s group

Parent-child hand prints and playmobile families

Puppets and animals to play with