What’s a higgle?
Higgle is an innovative, STEAM-based digital platform built to help primary teachers effortlessly facilitate creative thinking lessons through process-led art. Higgle generates adaptable artistic prompts that integrate hands-on creative play directly with core academic subjects, turning standard desks into active spaces of discovery. Higgle helps to teach life long skills such as problem solving, brainstorming, collaboration through creative play.
Our Story
Every child is born with an active imagination, but traditional classrooms often lack the time, resources, or specialized tools to let that creativity run free. We started Higgle to change that. By designing an inclusive framework around real-world, off-screen making, using everyday resources like tinfoil and sponges, we ensure that every student, including those navigating neurodiversities like Dyslexia and ASD, can confidently problem-solve, collaborate, and thrive.
Our Services
We bring the Higgle framework directly into your classroom with high-energy, hands-on art labs. Students tackle fun challenges, like drawing a way to get a giraffe across a river using recycled materials, building essential skills in collaboration and critical thinking. We learn how to use accessible and sustainable materials to make unique artworks!
Master the art of stress-free creative facilitation. Held in Enniscorthy with fully in-person and hybrid options, our Department of Education-approved courses give teachers practical frameworks to run inclusive, curriculum-aligned art sessions with total confidence.
Launching this September after successful global trials in over 220 classrooms. This all-in-one platform lets you generate adaptable prompts, track recycled material collection, host digital student art galleries, and instantly create required reports for School Self-Evaluation (SSE).
AbOUT THE FOUNDER
Howdy doodaly!Hi, I’m Grace Brennan. My journey with Higgle began through my work as an art teacher delivering classroom workshops, where I saw firsthand that real learning happens when children articulate their own ideas and build on them through the physical process of making, rather than following rigid, cookie-cutter templates where everyone creates the exact same piece.
Because essential creative thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills are currently lacking in the traditional system, I developed Higgle to bridge that gap. I grew the company as a High Potential Start-Up (HPSU) through Enterprise Ireland’s New Frontiers programme, launching as the first official spin-out company from IADT.
Today, I travel all over Ireland delivering hands-on school workshops and running Department of Education-approved EPV summer courses for teachers. My core mission is to increase access to the arts by creating neuro-friendly resources that build lifelong creative thinking skills through hands-on, off-screen play.
This framework is built to meet you exactly where you are, adapting effortlessly to your specific class group abilities, physical space, and the time you have available, regardless of the language needs in your classroom, limited material access, or whatever curriculum subjects your class is already studying that week.
Next steps to a
creative classroom .
✓ Primary School 2025 Curriculum Aligned ✓Cross-Curricular Integration✓ Accessible Resources✓ Made with neurodiversity in mind✓ Translatable at every stage✓Saves time✓ Environmentally conscious
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