Zeepy Sleep Club

For when your child feels frightened of the dark and worries that the night takes things away. A little grey mouse walks home through the forest with Kip the café cat and Slumber the sloth beside her. When she looks back, she sees her sleeping friends still glowing in the café windows, and understands the dark hasn't taken anything, only made it quieter. For a child who finds the dark too big...

For when your child is too full of something good to slow down, and needs something steady to lean their fizzing heart on A story for the too-much-and-lovely feeling. Paws is fizzing with tomorrow’s berry-picking, so Kip leads him to the old grandfather clock, where he finds the hush between each tick and leans his racing heart on its slow, kind beat. The excitement doesn’t go anywhere. It just tu...

Kip the café cat settles on her window seat and notices the lamp already glowing, the sky turning early. She pads through the Moonbeam Cat Café, checking the fire, the biscuit tin, the sleeping cats, and finds everything just where it belongs. An early evening, she discovers, simply means more time to be warm. A gentle one for a child adjusting to a shift in the day.

For when your child wakes early and you'd both like them to stay restful in bed a while longer. A soft, still layer of sound for the early hour — quiet enough to stay snug under the covers, gentle enough that there's no reason to get up yet. The room, holding its breath before the day.

Kip the café cat is closing the Moonbeam Cat Café, but the evening won't quite arrive. Nothing is wrong, yet Whiskers, Muffin and Toby all stay tense. So Kip slows down, leaving gentle pauses between each small task until the whole room softens into the quiet. A gentle one for a child who needs space to unwind.

A young badger arrives at the forest full of something too big to hold, pacing in the mud. Slumber the sloth doesn't ask what happened; he invites her to sit by the loud river and notice the steady stones beneath the rushing water. As the rain stops, the river slowly settles, and so does she. A gentle one for after a hard day.

For when your child wriggles and fidgets at bedtime, unsettled by small feelings they can't quite name. Kip the café cat is getting ready to rest, but each time she circles her velvet cushion she notices something small: a spool, a crumb, a curled leaf, a tiny wrinkle. One by one she tends to each, and rest arrives on its own. For a child learning that the little pokes before sleep are part o...

For when your child is sleeping somewhere new and the unfamiliar dark feels too strange to settle into. Kip the café cat finds a small hedgehog hiding beneath the lavender, worried because this dark isn't its own. Rather than rushing it, Kip sits close and helps it notice what stays the same — the night air, the stars, the blackbird's bedtime note. Slowly, its spines soften. A gentle one...

For when your little one is convinced being sent to sleep first feels like missing out. A younger wren huffs at the edge of her nest, certain her brother gets to see everything she never will. Slumber, a gentle sloth in his fern cradle, tells her what the forest saves for whoever rests first — the whispering leaves, the glowing moss, the dew holding moonlight. A gentle one for a child who hates be...

For when your child likes the sound of the outdoors at night to fall asleep to. The Starlight Forest at night — a soft layer of leaves, far-off crickets, and the slow breath of the trees. The wide, safe sound of the outdoors, gentle enough to sleep inside.

For when your child resists letting the day end, or needs the same steps to feel ready. Kip closes the café the same way every night: wipe the counter, click the biscuit tin, dim the lights, tuck the cushions, wait for the clock's one deep chime. Small Paws follows along, slower and slower, until the routine carries him.

For when feelings are running high, or to help your child settle before sleep. Each breath out is a little longer than the breath in — the fastest way a small body finds its way to still. Good for big evenings, or any night that needs settling before sleep begins.

For when your child is already settled and just needs to arrive before sleep. No counting, no image. Just the quiet realisation that a breath is already happening — and it already knows what to do. Five minutes of very little. Best for older children in the range.

For when worry or busy thoughts are getting in the way. A warm cup on the counter. Steam rising slowly. Your child breathes in with the steam, then blows it gently across the café. Something to follow when thoughts won't quiet on their own.

For when your child needs to find a steady rhythm before sleep. Kip is on the window seat, purring very quietly. Your child breathes with her rhythm — slow in, slow out. Four minutes of something steady to synchronise with when the evening still needs settling.

For when your child needs to gather themselves during the day. Breathing in for three, blowing out for three — counted quietly alongside. A two-minute reset for a scattered or overwhelmed moment, without stopping the day completely.

For mornings when your child is facing the day and you want them to find one good thing in it. Kip shares her one thing to look forward to — a warm patch of sun that arrives on the café floor later. She invites your child to find theirs, kept private if they like. A hopeful, steadying start. Best before the day begins.