The Process Art Academy
The Process Art Academy · for one family, one household

One simple activity.A clearer picture of how your child grows.

Each day we suggest one gentle art experience, you note what you noticed, and we track your child's focus, confidence, and skill across nine developmental areas — building a keepsake book of the journey along the way.

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A creative arts resource, not an approved programme.

Takes about 5 minutes · 4 weeks free · no card · then £10/month
Created by an educatorScreen free for childrenNo card neededUp to four children
The daily loop

Two minutes, once a day

No pressure to do it every day, no notifications demanding attention. Just today's evidence, rated, explained, and kept.

1
Photograph today's process
Whatever your child made — paint, mud, blocks, torn paper. The mess is the data.
2
Rate the nine developmental areas
Nine quick taps across the developmental areas that matter — fine motor, focus, sensory tolerance, and more — edited into a short report before it posts.
3
Discover your next personalised activity
The recommendation engine weighs today's ratings and hands you one clear activity for tomorrow, with the reasoning translated into plain language.
4
Watch the book grow
Every entry becomes a dated page — a keepsake that documents the journey, not just the milestones.
Tuesday, 4 August
Lines of pink and purple paint drawn through foam
"Today Charlie mixed every colour into one and called it 'the whole week.'"

Charlie's Book

A family keepsake, built one day at a time — separate from the profile, entirely yours. Every check-in adds a page: the date and a line worth remembering. You add the photo that makes it real.

It's not a report for an institution. It's the book your child will ask to look through in ten years. You add the photos — the first word, the first scissor cut, the messy moments that matter — each day.

See Charlie's Book, page by page →

Do / Notice / Read / Grow
Do
One playful activity
Notice
Tap what you saw
Read
Tomorrow is sorted
Grow
Tracked across nine developmental areas — and kept, as a page in their book
The nine developmental areas
The evidence base

Nine developmental areas. One neuroscience footnote each.

Every activity in the extensive corpus is analysed across the same nine developmental areas — the difference between "a nice moment" and evidence you can trust.

01
Communication & language
Back-and-forth conversation is the strongest early predictor of literacy and school readiness.
02
Engagement
Sustained, self-directed attention is the substrate every other area builds on.
03
Choice making
Small, real choices seed agency and the felt sense of authoring one's own day.
04
Emotional regulation
Noticing, naming, and settling a feeling underlies every later social and academic skill.
05
Sensory processing
Graded, playful exposure helps the nervous system organise incoming information.
06
Fine motor
Pincer grip and controlled mark-making are the precursors to handwriting.
07
Gross motor
Whole-body movement builds the strength and coordination classroom sitting depends on.
08
Confidence
Expecting to succeed matters more than any single skill — it's what makes a child try again.
09
Independence
Doing-for-oneself turns capability into identity.
Why this exists
Why this exists

Most apps track your child.
This one develops them.

Milestone trackers turn development into a checklist. Process art turns it into evidence you can actually watch happen — and keep.

Other milestone checklist apps
  • –Development reduced to boxes ticked off an age chart
  • –Activities picked from a generic library of hundreds
  • –Photos filed away, rarely looked at again
  • –Success looks the same for every child
The Process Art Academy
  • ✓Nine developmental areas rated from what your child actually made today
  • ✓One recommendation, chosen for your child specifically
  • ✓Every photo becomes a dated page in a book you keep
  • ✓Success looks like their own trail, growing daily
Evidence · Curiosity · Integrity

"Process art is core to holistic child development — shaping a stronger, more adaptable, more emotionally resilient child during their most formative years."

Guided by
Evidence
Inspired by
Curiosity
Delivered with
Integrity
Extensive
documented activities, one author
Years
of documented practice
9
developmental areas, evidence-mapped
Real mess. Real hands. Real focus.
What a day actually looks like

Real mess. Real hands. Real focus.

Child's hand exploring pom poms in soapy paint
Watercolours, kitchen table, Tuesday afternoon
Tempera powder poured into a foamy sensory tray
Whatever the idea is, it's the right one
Two children mixing colour with a spoon in foam
One spoon, total concentration
Child drawing lines of pink and purple paint through foam
Fine motor skill, disguised as fun
Child reaching into a tub of colourful materials
The nine developmental areas, up close
Built and tested with one real family
A parent and child doing finger painting together at a kitchen table
Built and tested with one real family

"We didn't want another app measuring our kid against a chart. We wanted to remember what he actually did with his hands today — and we still read the book back to him."

Facilitator 1 — parent, Project 001A, the pilot that began The Process Art Academy
Gillian Train, founder of The Process Art Academy
Founder

Gillian Train

Practitioner · Researcher · Author

Gillian Train is a practitioner, researcher, and author with many years of documented process art in different settings. She is the sole author of the extensive activity corpus at the centre of The Process Art Academy — every activity analysed across nine developmental areas and mapped to Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) outcomes, evidenced in the child's own words.

"Is this in the best interests of the child?" — the question against which every decision is measured.

Masters by Thesis · Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University
Research topic: Process Art, Neurodevelopment and Preventative Child Wellbeing in Early Childhood

Start today's check-in.

Two minutes. One photo. The first data point in watching your child grow — and a book you'll keep for years.

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