The ChalkWild CreateCalm Kit is an erasable canvas backpack made for kids ages 4 to 12 who have big feelings. A child draws the feeling on the backpack with liquid chalk markers, wipes it clean, and starts fresh, anywhere, with no screen and no adult needed. It is a full-size school backpack and costs $61.95 with 12 markers, an eraser, and 50+ drawing lessons.

Give them a calming tool they already carry. Drawing is a simple, screen-free way for kids to express and release a feeling, and the ChalkWild CreateCalm Kit puts it on their backpack, so it works on the bus, at recess, or at bedtime. If big emotions are frequent or intense, also talk with your child’s pediatrician or school counselor.

Good screen-free calming tools for kids include drawing, breathing exercises, sensory items, and quiet reading. The ChalkWild CreateCalm Kit combines drawing with a backpack a child carries all day: draw the feeling, erase it, start over. Psychology professor Dr. Tracy Packiam Alloway notes that 20 minutes of drawing can improve working memory.

No. The ChalkWild CreateCalm Kit is a self-regulation and creative-expression tool, not a medical or clinical treatment. Child mental-health professionals endorse it as a helpful everyday outlet. If you are worried about your child’s mental health, talk with a pediatrician, school counselor, or licensed therapist.

Many families and educators use it that way. The CreateCalm Kit gives children a non-verbal, visual way to express emotion. Certified pediatric mental health specialist Dr. Ganielle Hooper calls it very helpful for children with attention difficulties, and Dr. Vivian David-Nicolas notes it can be especially empowering for children with disabilities.

The CreateCalm Kit is for TK through 6th grade, roughly ages 4 to 12. The 50+ drawing lessons span three skill levels, so younger and older kids both grow with it.

Every CreateCalm Kit includes an erasable canvas backpack in your chosen design, 12 liquid chalk markers, a terry cloth eraser, and free access to 50+ step-by-step drawing lessons.

No. ChalkWild liquid chalk markers are non-toxic and water-based. They wipe off the canvas with the included eraser and wash off skin with plain water.

Yes. The CreateCalm backpack is durable, made from 600D nylon with padded shoulder straps, a zippered front pocket, and side pockets for water bottles. It measures 15 x 12 x 6 inches, a standard full-size pack that fits folders, notebooks, and a water bottle. Kids can erase and redraw unlimited times.

Yes. The CreateCalm Kit is screen-free, gets used every school day, and can ship straight to your grandchild’s address. Orders ship in 1 to 3 business days and arrive in 5 to 7. Add a $6.99 ChalkTales storybook that stars them by name.

ChalkTales makes a personalized storybook starring your child, with their name, look, and interests, in English, Spanish, or bilingual, for $6.99. An adult runs it from start to finish in about five minutes. Your child never touches the AI: there is no child-facing chat, account, or prompt.

Research suggests they can. In a controlled study, preschoolers learned more new words from a book personalized for them than from the same story without it (Kucirkova, Messer and Sheehy, 2014, First Language). Kids also tend to reread books they star in, and rereading builds fluency and vocabulary.

Yes. The CreateCalm Kit is eligible for ELOP, ASES, LCAP, Title I, Title IV-A, Prop 28, and Community Schools funding, with bulk pricing on a single PO. ChalkWild is board-approved at Fresno Unified ELOP sites. Contact info@chalkwild.com for a quote.

Hien Ho invented ChalkWild at age 11 in Modesto, California, after seeing canvas backpacks covered in permanent art at a skate park and wondering why kids couldn’t erase and start over. Hien is ChalkWild’s inventor and co-founder, alongside co-founder Charlie Nguyen.