Kids & Art Foundation
Patient ArtKits · About this organization
What you get
Free art kits for your child through a hospital’s grant-funded allocation.
How to start
Your child’s oncology team can email Kids & Art to ask about a free ArtKit allocation for the hospital.
Good to know
- Extra kits beyond a hospital’s free allocation carry a discounted hospital price.
The details, as published
Kids & Art assigns free art kits to hospitals after reviewing their requests and available funding. Your child’s oncology team can ask about the hospital’s allocation.
What help you may get
Wishes And Family Experiences
Hospital art-kit allocation
Your child can receive an art kit from the hospital’s free allocation.
Amount not published
- The organization sets the number of free kits allocated to each hospital, not a cash award to your family.
Practical Items And Home Help
Hospital art-kit allocation — practical items or help at home
Your child can receive an art kit from the hospital’s free allocation.
Amount not published
- The organization sets the number of free kits allocated to each hospital, not a cash award to your family.
Why this may help
Practical Items And Home Help: Your child receives art-project supplies through the hospital.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. Published diagnosis scope "serious_illness"; GPT Pro intake run02 read B-ALL as eligible.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The page says the kits are "Suitable for children ages 4 and up"; this is a suitability note, not a stated age limit.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.
- Site publishes no residence rule; kits reach children through hospitals that hold a Gift of ArtKits award.
Where your child is treated
Treatment must be connected to: ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation; Baptist St Anthony’s Hospital; Baystate Children’s Hospital; Beacon Children’s Hospital; By The Bay Kids; Carilion Children’s Hospital; Children’s Hospital Montefiore; Children’s Hospital New Orleans; Dartmouth Health Children’s; Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center; Logan Health; Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford; MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital; Nemours Children’s Hospital; Palm Beach Children’s Hospital; Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital at Ascension St Vincent; UVA Health Children’s Hospital; Valley Children’s Hospital; Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital.
- Kids & Art Foundation provides monthly deliveries of Amaeyzing ArtKits to a select number of hospitals nationwide through our Gift of ArtKits program. To be considered, hospitals must submit a program grant application.
- Facilities listed are the published 2025 Gift of ArtKit Program Grant Recipients; 2026 recipients are not published.
How to get started
Does a social worker or care team need to start it? Yes. Ask your child’s social worker or care team to begin the request.
Who can start: Hospital Representative
- Contact the programs director for the hospital’s grant application and ask whether a free allocation is available.
Ways to apply or ask
- Email · programs@kidsandart.org
- Hospital Workflow · Open form or page — The hospital grant application is full for this year.
Documents to prepare
The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Application Window Closed |
| Funding or space | Capacity Reached |
| Application window | Not Published |
| Last checked | Sep 26, 2026 |
- Hospitals apply for a Gift of ArtKits grant; the grant application is full for this year and the page says to check back in a couple of months.
- Awards cover monthly deliveries for the calendar year of the application; no reopening date is printed.
Limitations and things to confirm
No additional limitations are published.
- When will the Gift of ArtKits hospital grant reopen, and which hospitals hold 2026 awards?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Sep 26, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- kidsandart.org/home-artkits · checked Sep 25, 2026
- kidsandart.org/faq · checked Sep 25, 2026