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Provider: Mindful Flames Creative Experience
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HER CREATIVE LEGACY
Creating Confidence, Creativity & Self-Care Through Hands-On Experiences
Program Overview
Her Creative Legacy is a 10-week, hands-on enrichment experience to empower girls through creativity, wellness, STEAM, product design, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Includes curriculum, instruction, materials, take-home projects, and a final student showcase for up to 15 students.
Through meaningful, project-based experiences, students will explore how creativity can help express who they are, care for themselves, solve problems, and turn ideas into tangible products and experiences.
Each week introduces a new creative concept and provides students with an opportunity to make something they can use, gift, display, or showcase. Along the way, students develop confidence, communication, collaboration, leadership, critical thinking, and entrepreneurial skills.
The program creates a supportive environment where girls are encouraged to explore their individuality, try new things, make mistakes, ask questions, and recognize the value of their own ideas.
Program Goals
Students will:
- Build confidence through creative expression and hands-on learning
- Explore new creative skills, interests, and potential career pathways
- Develop communication, collaboration, and leadership skills
- Practice mindfulness, self-care, and positive self-expression
- Explore STEM concepts through creative, real-world activities
- Develop critical-thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Learn foundational entrepreneurship and product-development concepts
- Strengthen their ability to communicate and present their ideas
- Create meaningful projects they can use, gift, display, or showcase
10-Week Program Experience
WEEK 1 — Creative Identity & Vision Boards
“Who Am I Becoming?”
Students begin their journey by exploring identity, strengths, goals, dreams, and personal expression.
Activities
- Self-reflection exercises
- Goal setting
- Vision board creation
- Personal affirmations
Skills Developed
Creativity • Confidence • Self-Awareness • Goal Setting
WEEK 2 — Wellness & Self-Care Studio
“Creating Your Own Self-Care Ritual”
Students explore the importance of intentional self-care and discover how creativity can support personal wellness.
Activities
- Lip balm, sugar scrub, or body-care creation
- Packaging and product design
- Self-care reflection
- Creating a personal wellness ritual
Skills Developed
Wellness • Creativity • Self-Expression • Product Design
WEEK 3 — Branding Yourself
“Your Story Is Your Brand”
Students explore how their identity, values, personality, and ideas can be communicated through branding and design.
Activities
- Personal brand exercises
- Logo and color exploration
- Positive messaging
- Creative identity design
Skills Developed
Communication • Design • Confidence • Branding
WEEK 4 — Jewelry & Accessory Design
“Wear Your Creativity”
Students explore personal style and artistic expression while designing wearable creations.
Activities
- Jewelry or accessory creation
- Design planning
- Color and material selection
- Creative storytelling
Skills Developed
Art • Fine-Motor Skills • Design • Self-Expression
WEEK 5 — Candle Making Experience
“Create Your Signature Scent”
Students are introduced to the creative and scientific process behind candle making while designing their own personalized candle.
Activities
- Fragrance exploration
- Introduction to candle and wax science
- Candle creation
- Custom label design
- Product storytelling
Skills Developed
Creativity • STEM Connections • Design • Product Development
WEEK 6 — Creative Entrepreneurship
“From Idea to Product”
Students discover how an idea can become a product, service, or experience.
Activities
- Product brainstorming
- Identifying a target customer or audience
- Packaging concepts
- Introduction to pricing
- Developing a simple product concept
Skills Developed
Entrepreneurship • Innovation • Problem Solving • Financial Literacy
WEEK 7 — Photography & Content Creation
“Tell Your Story Visually”
Students explore photography and digital storytelling while learning how images can communicate an idea, product, or message.
Activities
- Product photography
- Visual storytelling
- Creative direction
- Introduction to responsible content creation
- Creating promotional visuals
Skills Developed
Technology • Marketing • Communication • Creativity
WEEK 8 — Empowerment Through Art
“Creating With Purpose”
Students use art as a tool for self-expression, reflection, connection, and positive messaging.
Activities
- Painting or mixed-media project
- Inspirational messaging
- Collaborative artwork
- Personal reflection
Skills Developed
Creativity • Self-Expression • Collaboration • Community Building
WEEK 9 — Creative Showcase Preparation
“Bringing Your Ideas to Life”
Students prepare to present and celebrate the work they have created throughout the program.
Activities
- Project refinement
- Display and presentation design
- Presentation practice
- Public-speaking preparation
- Personal reflection
Skills Developed
Leadership • Public Speaking • Organization • Confidence
WEEK 10 — Girls Who Create Showcase
“Celebrating Creativity & Confidence”
The program concludes with an opportunity for students to celebrate their accomplishments and share their creativity with others.
Activities
- Student project presentations
- Gallery-style display
- Product and project showcase
- Reflection celebration
- Student recognition
Skills Developed
Confidence • Communication • Leadership • Presentation
Student Outcomes
By the end of Her Creative Legacy, students will have:
✨ Increased confidence in their creativity, ideas, and abilities
✨ Developed new hands-on artistic and product-creation skills
✨ Explored wellness, mindfulness, and intentional self-care
✨ Experienced real-world connections between creativity, STEM, and innovation
✨ Been introduced to branding, entrepreneurship, and product development
✨ Created multiple projects they can use, gift, display, or showcase
✨ Strengthened communication, collaboration, leadership, and presentation skills
✨ Gained greater confidence in expressing their ideas, individuality, and vision
Additional Program Options
Her Creative Legacy can be customized or expanded to meet the needs and interests of each school or organization.
Optional experiences may include:
- Additional STEM challenges
- Fashion and sewing design
- Soap and body-care making
- Floral design
- Interior design concepts
- Culinary creativity and Food STEAM
- Photography and digital media
- Entrepreneurship pitch competition
- Financial literacy activities
- Community-service creative projects
- Family engagement activities
- Parent/family showcase event
The Her Creative Legacy Experience
Her Creative Legacy is about more than making things.
It is about giving girls the opportunity to discover what they are capable of creating when they are given the space, tools, encouragement, and confidence to explore their ideas.
Through creativity, wellness, STEAM, and entrepreneurship, students learn that their imagination can become a skill, their ideas can become something tangible, and their voice can make an impact.
Create it. Explore it. Share it. Own it.