Children’s Mental Health Week!

Children’s Mental Health Week is underway and we wanted to talk a little bit about our thoughts on this amazing week that spreads awareness for our Children’s Mental Health and how Messy Play Classes can help!

Children’s Mental Health has never been as important as it has been now. It’s all over the news about how we need to start talking about our mental health more as well as being able to do things to improve it. For years the subject has been taboo and now we have started talking about it more, we also focus on our Children’s Mental Health as it can be looked after no matter what age you are!

We love that our classes can do just that! You may be thinking well how can messy play classes do that? We pride ourselves on giving children a safe environment so they can just be themselves. As adults, we can sometimes constrict our children when they’re playing. I often hear in play settings adults saying: “You’re being too loud” or “You’re being too messy” but as well all know, that is children just enjoying their environment!

Can Messy Play Classes help?

The short answer is hell yeah it can! Children thrive in environments where can they just be whoever they want to be in that moment. We see shy children come into our classes and especially with having a lot of covid babies now attending, they’re not sure how to interact with one another. Our classes create a safe space for them to make all the mess they want in the world, so they can just focus on being a child but also create a relationship through messy play and enjoying the same thing.

Our messy play classes don’t just benefit the children’s mental health in our classes too, but also the parents that attended. Being a parent is hugely tough on mental health! It could be your suffering from postnatal depression or you’re going through a really rough time, getting out of the house could be the first step to trying to improve their mental health. Speaking to other parents in those classes and listening to other people could be just what someone needed.

Can children as young as 5 years have a mental health problem?

We often underestimate our children and their ability to soak in what’s going on around them. 1 in 6 children and young people have a diagnosable mental health problem as advised by the Children’s Mental Health Week Orginisation and it would be naive of us to think that this didn’t include early years. From beaverment to bullying, anything could affect Children’s Mental Health and it’s important that we all create a safe place for our children to be heard and just to be children and enjoy themselves through play.

Thank you to the Children’s Mental Health Week for the great information. You can support them by clicking here:

Are you wanting to get out of the house and enjoy some messy play classes? Please click here to find your nearest class.