Early Years Exploring Feelings bundle

Learning to recognise and explore our feelings is at the heart of emotional learning. This fabulous collection of quirky characters are ideal for encouraging children to learn about, notice, name and manage their feelings and body signals.

Perfect for classrooms, therapeutic settings, and family work, the Early Years Exploring Feelings bundle includes a digital set of all the cards, and booklets full of suggested activities. Use them to help children navigate big feelings, build respectful relationships, and stay safe.

• Innovative Resources is listed on the Victorian Government’s School Readiness Funding menu, providing resources and training to help early years teams build social and emotional skills in children and families.

The Early Years Exploring Feelings bundle includes:

Card sets

• The Bears : a beloved resource for children. These simple yet powerful cards empower children to identify, talk about and reflect on feelings.
• Stones … have feelings too!: a set of stone characters with personalities and feelings, that children can explore to build a feelings vocabulary for themselves.
• Funky Fish Feelings: 48 fabulous fish characters that help children describe feelings. Includes a quirky seahorse ‘observer’ character on every card. Great for storytelling.

Stickers

• The Bears Stickers: 240 stickers that are perfect for sharing and letting everyone know what you are feeling.
• Stones … have feelings too! Stickers: 260 stickers that can communicate how we respect and value each other.

Also available:

• Workshop: Tools for Building Social & Emotional Literacy in the Early Years

BONUS: Free access to each card sets Digital Toolbox

• Digital cards and booklet
• Extra support resources including ideas bank, card hacks, and blogs

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• In the classroom: Use across the curriculum to support social and emotional literacy, build self-esteem, explore resilience, and create positive relationships.
• With families: perfect for families to build a shared language around feelings and body signals.
• In a group setting: fun, creative tools for inviting children, and adults, to share stories and create connection.