Give children a world of imagination and a skill for life this Christmas
Being away from home is hard for children, especially at Christmas. Help us give Playful Meditation kits to children in hospitals and children’s homes. Creating with natural materials brings joy and builds a lifelong skill: learning to pause, focus and find calm.
Our Christmas Goal
Thousands of children in the Czech Republic live in children’s homes, and thousands more spend time in hospital every year. We want to show at least 1,000 of them that meditation, calming the mind and being present can also be playful – and give them a simple yet important skill for life. ❤️
Each kit will bring a moment of joy and calm, along with the freedom to create something using their own imagination. Because every child deserves to feel that they and their ideas matter.
Choose How Much Joy You Would Like to Share
You can order a creative kit for your own children, donate one to a child in hospital or a children’s home, or combine both options.
If you order several kits, you can decide how many you would like delivered to your home and how many you would like to donate. If you do not provide a delivery address, we will prepare all the kits as Christmas gifts for children in hospitals and children’s homes and personally deliver them on your behalf.
Creative Activities That Awaken Children’s Senses
Playful Meditation brings a little piece of nature directly into children’s hands. Each kit contains shells, minerals and other natural treasures, a postcard, a 20 × 20 cm wooden board, glue, a paintbrush and playful instructions.
Children explore the natural materials through touch, notice their shapes and colours, choose the pieces that appeal to them and gradually use them to create their own sea mandala. In this natural way, they slow down, focus on the present moment and engage their senses.
Every kit is unique – just like the child, their idea and the story that emerges while they create.
Who Are We?
We are The Playful Book z.s., a Czech nonprofit association. Through play, creative activities and natural materials, we support the development of children’s senses, mindfulness and emotional well-being.
The Playful Meditation concept was brought from Mallorca by our founder, Mili Trlidová, where the story of creating pictures from seashells first began. Today, we are developing this idea in the Czech Republic through workshops and creative kits, so that Playful Meditation can also reach children who are unable to attend our events in person.
Our members help us prepare the kits and run the workshops. ❤️
Where Does Your Donation Go?
Every CZK 400 enables us to prepare and deliver one complete creative kit – covering everything from natural materials and art supplies to assembly, transport and organising the delivery. The more kits we prepare at once, the lower the cost per kit, which means your donation can bring Playful Meditation to even more children.
Thanks to you, we can bring Playful Meditation directly to children who are unable to come to us.
This Christmas, give more than a ready-made present. Give a child the opportunity to create, pause for a moment and discover that calming down and being present can also be playful.
Come and experience Playful Meditation in person! Join us on 14–15 November 2026 at the Minerály Brno fair. You can find more information about the workshop here: Playful Meditation: Christmas Crafts with Natural Materials | BVV CZ
You can follow our preparations, kit deliveries and the joy of creating on The Playful Book website and on Facebook at The Playful Book.
Thank you for creating with us and helping us bring joy to children who need it most right now.
Warmly,
Milli Trlidová, Chairwoman,
and The Playful Book z.s. team
and The Playful Book z.s. team
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