ChalkWild

Name: ChalkWild
Address: 901 McHenry Avenue Ste. O, Modesto, CA, 95350, US
Telephone: +12095313866
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✏️ Helping K–5 kids feel calm, confident & creative. ChalkWild brings SEL, literacy & art enrichment to schools & families across CA. Create. Calm. Connect. 🎨

Proven results — 41% boost in student self-esteem. 50K+ students served.

10/05/2026

Little hands. Big futures.✏️

A big thank you to San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office and DA Ron Freitas for donating ChalkWild CreateCalm Kits to Head Start, TK, PreK, and K students at Montezuma Elementary in South Stockton! 🙏💛

Each kit comes with an erasable backpack, chalk markers, and a terry cloth, so kids can create art anywhere. It's a hands-on antidote to the screens that fill so much of their day. 📵🎨

Why it matters: Our youngest learners need strong hands and a calm mind to succeed.

✏️ Fine motor skills: drawing and erasing build grip and control
🧘 Self-regulation: slow, creative play builds focus, patience, and resilience

Early investment today means a safe, prosperous community tomorrow. 🌱

Want CreateCalm Kits for your young scholars? Message us or email [email protected]

Stockton Unified School District Schools

09/22/2026

Your students need more support than your staff can give alone.

1 in 6 kids have a diagnosed mental or behavioral disorder. 40% of 4th graders read below basic. 17.1% of California TK-8 students were chronically absent last year. Your team is already stretched thin — and there will never be enough counselors to close that gap.

We built two tools to help you support kids even when an adult isn't right there:

🎒 CreateCalm Kit — an erasable backpack every student can draw their feelings on and wipe clean. A self-regulation tool in their hands, all day.

📖 ChalkTales — a personalized storybook starring each student, ready in about 5 minutes. Your staff runs it — no child ever touches the AI.

Both are turnkey, low-prep, and built to move the numbers districts get asked about: engagement, reading, and attendance.

Already running in Fresno USD ELOP sites, and fundable now through ELOP, ASES, Prop 28, and Community Schools dollars.

If your district or program is looking for a way to give students more support this year, let's talk.

[email protected] or visit our website chalkwild.com

09/14/2026

What’s the most underrated career skill? 🤔
Fast Company just named it: Being interesting.
They break it down into 3 trainable habits:
🔍 Curiosity
🗣️ Following where a conversation leads
✨ Knowing how to share about yourself
Here’s what caught our eye: kids build all three of these skills every single week in our afterschool enrichment programs! 🎨
The research backs it up. Visual arts education is proven to cultivate the 4 Cs: Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity (backed by the National Art Education Association and Harvard Project Zero). 🧠💡
Here’s the ChalkWild mechanism:
Our standards-aligned art curriculum grows the 4 Cs, while student self-esteem climbs by 41%+. 📈 That combination is exactly what gives kids the courage to actually share who they are.
We aren't just teaching the 4 Cs. We’re building the confidence to use them.
A winning workforce doesn't start at the first job interview. It starts with a kid who has already practiced thinking critically, communicating clearly, collaborating, and creating something original—with the self-esteem to put it out there. 🌟

Create. Calm. Connect.
👇 Want to start a conversation?
📧 Email us: [email protected]

(Sources: NAEA Position Statement on the 4 C's | Hetland et al., Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education)

08/04/2026

Modesto Kiwanis knows kids deserve better than a backpack that rips before winter break. The ChalkWild CreateCalm Kit is a wearable canvas for self-expression, a calming tool, a mobile art gallery for kids to show off their work if they want and a backpack built to survive the whole school year and beyond.

We’re grateful to the thoughtful, generous members of Modesto Kiwanis for choosing quality over the flimsy giveaways that fall apart after a few weeks. Giving a child a free backpack doesn’t mean giving them a low quality ones that we’d never buy for our own kids. We need more organizations like Modesto Kiwanis: ones that treat children’s mental health and education like they actually matter, not like an afterthought.

07/09/2026

ChalkWild in Rome, Milan, Paris, Frankfurt, London.

07/04/2026

ChalkWild in Milan during World Cup

06/24/2026

Kids don’t always have the words for what they’ve been through. Sometimes, what they really need is a trampoline. 🖍️✨
In *The Body Keeps the Score*, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk shares a powerful story of a little boy processing the trauma of 9/11. He drew the towers, but at the bottom, he added a trampoline so everyone would land safely. He didn't deny what happened—he used his imagination to rewrite the unbearable into something survivable.
As you can see in this video, giving children an immediate creative outlet helps them slow down. Instead of holding those big emotions in, having a canvas—like a ChalkWild backpack—lets them release those feelings creatively. Overwhelm turns into calm and pride. 🎒💛
That’s the foundation of the CreateCalm Kit. We give kids the space to put what’s inside them onto a canvas. No right answers, no corrections. Just permission to imagine their way through.
And we know it works. Across two recent 6-week studies, our drawing activities led to over 41% gains in student self-esteem! 📈🎨
Let’s give every child the creative outlet they need to thrive. Click the link in our bio to learn more! 👇

06/13/2026

Shockwave from a nuke and a meteor colliding earth. He learned about this from videos and wanted to show me what he learned by drawing it on his ChalkWild erasable backpack.

05/02/2026

ACSA Region 7 Spring Conference in South Lake Tahoe. It feels more like Spring. The weather is perfect. No snow. We have had many splendid conversations with educators today. We hope to have more conversation about how ChalkWild programs can foster more student’s success tomorrow.

04/08/2026

Turning “Big Feelings” into Big Art. 🎨✨

Meet Bella. Like many 7-year-olds, navigating the daily stressors of school and busy schedules can be overwhelming. As parents, we’re always looking for ways to help our little ones process their world without the need for a screen.

Enter: The Chalk Wild Backpack. 🎒
Whether she’s in the backseat of a car or on the sidelines of a game, Bella has a portable sanctuary. It’s more than just a place to store books—it’s a canvas for her imagination to run wild and her stress to fade away.

Watch how Bella’s mom uses this simple, creative outlet to foster confidence and calm in her daughter’s life.

Give your child a canvas they can take anywhere. Click the link in our bio to shop the collection! 🔗

Address

901 McHenry Avenue Ste. O
Modesto, CA
95350

Telephone

+12095313866

Website

http://www.chalkwild.com/

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