by Stephanie Kellough
Child Life Activity Coordinator

The Creative Arts Room is a space where our patients and families can leave their worries at the door and be as creative as they want.  Our Creative Arts Room is located on the 9th floor and is open to all patients and their family members each and every day.  Each day a Child Life Activity Coordinator or Volunteer lead the patients and families in a creative activity. These activities can range anywhere from painting an x-ray to building a birdhouse to making a get well banner for their loved ones.  

The Creative Arts Room is also utilized by our Child Life Specialists.  They use this room for all sorts of special projects.  Whether they need to make a birthday banner to help a child celebrate their birthday in the hospital or help a child with their fears of medical equipment by using medical supplies as an art medium.  Child Life Specialists also spend time in this room working on projects that are unique to their patient population. 

Our Creative Arts Room as well as our other programmatic areas, is considered a “safe area”.  By being deemed a “safe area”, no medical procedures, medical speech, or medical exams can take place in this room.  Since our patients and families have to deal with these occurrences throughout the day, we want to provide a place for them to leave those cares at the door.  

If you would like to donate any art items to our Creative Arts Room, please schedule a donation drop-off by calling 901-287-6021.  We accept all new and unused art supplies, such as crayons, art kits, coloring pencils, scissors, glue, etc.