Creative arts, encompassing both performing and visual arts, awaken children’s consciousness and aesthetic sensibilities because the arts are natural to children and serve as a vehicle for play. Creative activities require focus, active cognition, and physical, emotional, and social engagement that foster children’s awareness and intentionality of their thoughts, feelings, and actions in constructing their own imaginary worlds and perceived realities. Children’s experiences of mindfulness in play and the arts are grounded in self-determination theory (SDT). SDT’s autonomy, competence, and relatedness describe and predict human basic psychological needs and conditions of existence by examining human biological mechanisms, communal influences, and experiential processes. The experiential process of art-making demands mindful consciousness of one’s thoughts, feelings, curiosity, and intentions, involving the five senses (biological mechanisms). Curiosity drives children’s basic need for satisfaction, which can be attained through artistic pursuits such as drawing, an activity and modality that fosters autonomy for self-discovery, expression, and exploration. Children utilize accessible art and play media to interpret, express, and process their day-to-day social encounters and influences within their immediate contexts. Over time, children are mindfully engaged through the creative arts, learning to prioritize focus over multitasking and fostering intentionality, enhanced attention, and awareness. This conceptual chapter explores how drawing as a creative activity fosters mindfulness in young children by analyzing three children’s artworks. Practical tips on using the visual arts to cultivate mindfulness, grounded in SDT, are provided.