CREATIVITY HOUR
Help Us Save Creativity on National Day of Creativity – May 30, 2025
Dear Friends, Families, and Creative Collaborators,
Friday, May 30, 2025 is National Day of Creativity, and this year, we’re calling on YOU to help us celebrate it in the most meaningful way possible — by coming together to create, support, and inspire.
The Creativity Shell, a nonprofit organization dedicated to using creative arts education to nurture positive youth mental health, is facing a critical challenge. Recent funding cuts from national sources such as the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) threaten the lifeline of creative programming for children across the country.
But as artists, makers, and dreamers — we know how to turn challenges into possibilities.Instead of giving up, we’re choosing to
fund ourselves through creativity.
We are inviting businesses, families, bars, classrooms, and organizations everywhere to join our nationwide campaign by donating and receiving Creativity Hour Kits. Each kit includes a mystery collection of arts, crafts, and sewing supplies and one simple challenge: Take one hour (or more!) to create something unique and imaginative.
Here's how YOU can be part of this movement:
- Families: Host a creativity hour around your kitchen table, in your backyard, or right in your driveway.
- Bars & Cafés: Invite patrons to grab a drink, open a box, and create something unforgettable.
- Businesses & Offices: Use this as a team-building event over lunch or happy hour to boost morale and spark innovation.
- Community Spaces: Turn this day into a creative block party or local art jam.
By participating, you’re not only celebrating creativity — you’re helping to fund critical mental health programs for children through the Creativity Shell’s sewing, art, cooking, pottery, and craft education classes.
Creativity Hour Kits will be shipped or delivered the week of May 24, 2025, just in time for the National Day of Creativity. Each donation supports our programs and reminds children everywhere that creativity still matters — especially now.
Let’s create together. Let’s save creativity together.
JOIN THE CHALLENGE - CREATIVITY HOUR
OPEN A MYSTER BOX OF CRAFT SUPPLIES AND THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX TO CREATE...
We’re Taking Creativity to Classrooms Across the USA!
The Creativity Shell is launching an exciting new initiative — Creativity Shell Pods — to be placed directly into schools across the country! Each pod will be filled with Creativity Hour Kits, giving students access to hands-on, open-ended creative materials that encourage them to think critically, solve problems, and build with purpose.
Why does this matter?
Because creativity is the future of STEM. These kits challenge students to work with unconventional tools and materials to design, innovate, and invent — fostering the next generation of builders, thinkers, and changemakers. By integrating the arts with science, technology, engineering, and math, we’re not just teaching students how to follow instructions — we’re giving them the freedom to create something entirely their own.
Creativity Shell Pods = Accessible, engaging, STEM-powered learning that also supports positive youth mental health.
On Friday, May 30, 2025, join us for National Day of Creativity by donating and participating in the Creativity Hour. Your support will directly help us launch Creativity Shell Pods into schools during the 2025–2026 school year, bringing this transformative program to students who need it most.
Let’s build a future where every child can explore, create, and grow — one box at a time.
Donate today, get your Creativity Hour Kit, and be a part of the movement to put imagination back into education.
If you are a school/teacher: Please use this form to request a kit for your classroom: https://forms.gle/UgcCLgW9qnVkUGsJ8