Our Story
Told by our founder, Casey Tulloch
The first adventure box was created for a friends 7-year-old daughter, named Coco, to help her through her 6 month treatment of leukemia. When I got the news of Coco’s diagnosis, I set out to find a dozen or so cards to send her over the course of her stay. It was only when I wasn’t able to find any that felt meaningful or fun enough that I decided to create what became Coco’s Adventure Box.
News of the box spread and other people wanted one for their kids! When I showed the box to my local hospital’s Arts and Healing Program (at MUSC), they had never seen anything like it, the way it balanced play and therapeutic messaging. They were excited to find a way to bring them to children receiving treatment at MUSC.
Through funding from The Wanderlust Foundation, we ran our first pilot gifting boxes to kids receiving treatment for cancer. We got feedback that not only was the box a ton of fun, but that healthy siblings wanted their own box too! Turns out, this box would benefit more than just sick kids.
KC’s Adventure Boxes has since donated over 100 boxes to major children’s hospitals nationwide. We’re delighted offer Coco’s Adventure Box for anyone to purchase in the U.S.A. from our online store in this limited edition run.
About the Creators
Casey Tulloch, Founder and Inventor
At Dartmouth College, Casey studied product and human-centered design within the engineering major. She applied these skills to prototype, collect user feedback, and iterate upon the design of Coco’s Adventure Boxes. Over her junior summer in college and after graduating, she worked at Apple as an Engineering Project Manager on developing new software features for the Maps app.
She left Apple when she realized she wanted to work on products that centered around personal fulfillment. She got certified as a Professional Executive/Life Coach (CPC), specializing in creativity, and designed workshops that helped 200+ attendees learn how to choose their best ideas based on personal fit. The material she developed for those workshops ended up leading her to choose to work on Coco’s Adventure Box. Hear more about that process in her TEDx talk, “Choose ideas that fit you.” Casey drew on techniques she learned from coaching to design each resilience-building activity in Coco’s story.
Inês Da Fonseca | Illustrator and Book Art Director
Of the 300+ portfolios of children’s illustrators Casey looked at online, Inês da Fonseca was her top choice. Within an hour of reaching out to her over email, she replied accepting the job to illustrate and direct the art for the book inside the box (“Captain Coco’s Sea Adventure”) with overwhelming enthusiasm. In addition to being an incredibly talented illustrator and art director, she has a level of warmth and compassion to be treasured.
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