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An open teal The Play Way box with the Naming Feelings Play Kit contents arranged above it: the rainbow Emotions Buddy box, the Bingo Emotions game with its boards, cards and tokens, an Emotions Check-in poster, emotions playing cards, the What face is that? box with liquid chalk markers and coloured pens, a mini printer with paper rolls, wooden face stamps, rainbow modelling clay and the program booklet.
An open teal The Play Way box with the Naming Feelings Play Kit contents arranged above it: the rainbow Emotions Buddy box, the Bingo Emotions game with its boards, cards and tokens, an Emotions Check-in poster, emotions playing cards, the What face is that? box with liquid chalk markers and coloured pens, a mini printer with paper rolls, wooden face stamps, rainbow modelling clay and the program booklet.
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Naming Feelings Play Kit

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Support your child to put a name to what they are feeling through games, faces...
An open teal The Play Way box with the Body Clues Play Kit contents arranged above it: the yellow Slimy Surgeons science kit, the Interoception Learning Snapshot booklet, the green Body Clues workbook, the mierEdu All About Body and Emotions magnetic body board with its organ pieces and cards, a box of modelling dough, sticker sheets, Body Clues cards and the program booklet.
An open teal The Play Way box with the Body Clues Play Kit contents arranged above it: the yellow Slimy Surgeons science kit, the Interoception Learning Snapshot booklet, the green Body Clues workbook, the mierEdu All About Body and Emotions magnetic body board with its organ pieces and cards, a box of modelling dough, sticker sheets, Body Clues cards and the program booklet.
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Body Clues Play Kit

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Support your child to catch what their body is doing and read the signals it...

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Sensory Play Australia Emotions Buddy Naming Feelings Set: an open box revealing books, cards, and posters for emotional learning.
Sensory Play Australia Emotions Buddy Naming Feelings Set: an open box revealing books, cards, and posters for emotional learning.
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Emotions Buddy Naming Feelings Set

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When children have the ability to recognise and understand emotions in themselves and others, they...
Sensory Play Australia "What Face Is That?" game box with colorful illustrated faces, exploring emotions for ages 3+.
Sensory Play Australia "What Face Is That?" game box with colorful illustrated faces, exploring emotions for ages 3+.
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What face is that? Game

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Discover the world of emotions through role-play, art, and creativity with "What Face Is That?"....
The Play Way's Bingo Emotions game box displays colorful cartoon emotions, encouraging kids to recognize and understand feelings through play.
The Play Way's Bingo Emotions game box displays colorful cartoon emotions, encouraging kids to recognize and understand feelings through play.
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Bingo Emotions Game

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Brace yourself for all the feelings as you play BINGO Emotions! This game weaves the...
Body Clues Card Set box by Sensory Play Australia. Engaging children in self-awareness and understanding body signals through play.
Body Clues Card Set box by Sensory Play Australia. Engaging children in self-awareness and understanding body signals through play.
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Body Clues Cards Set

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The Body Clues Card Set is a playful and engaging way for children to explore...
Body Clues workbook cover with a green magnifying glass over an eye on a blue background.
Body Clues workbook cover with a green magnifying glass over an eye on a blue background.
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Learning About My Body Workbook Digital Resource

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This engaging workbook guides children through a series of missions to learn how their heart,...
The Slimy Surgeons anatomy game box by Sensory Play Australia, a therapist-designed kit for kids aged 8+ to explore anatomy.
The Slimy Surgeons anatomy game box by Sensory Play Australia, a therapist-designed kit for kids aged 8+ to explore anatomy.
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Slimy Surgeons

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The Slimy Surgeons Kit is a hands-on sensory experience that invites all children to explore...
Box for Sensory Play Australia's Bath Memory: Emotions game, a therapist-designed tool with 24 foam pieces for learning feelings.
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Bath Memory: Emotions

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Splish, splash, and learn about emotions! Emotions Bath Memory turns bath time into a fun...
MierEdu 'All About Body + Emotion' kit with anatomical magnets, cards, and booklet. Educational toy for learning.
MierEdu 'All About Body + Emotion' kit with anatomical magnets, cards, and booklet. Educational toy for learning.
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All About My Body + Emotion

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My Body Needs Stickers book cover by Sensory Play Australia. Visual reminders for children to track daily needs, promoting self-care.
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My Body Needs Sticker Book

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Emotions

A feeling a child cannot name is a feeling they cannot ask for help with. Most of what is here gives them the words to match their feelings while they are calm enough to learn them, rather than in the middle of a meltdown.

Also, underneath words are signals from the body. A racing heart, a tight chest, a stomach that growls. A child who can catch what their body is doing often gets a chance to say something before it gets too big. So these work at both ends: noticing what the body is doing, and having a name for it.

There are games for two or more players, card sets, a bath memory game, a sticker book, a workbook, a magnetic body puzzle, a slime kit for building organs, and two play kits with the tools and teaching from our therapy team.

If your child can show you loud and clear that something is wrong but cannot tell you what, even afterwards, start with naming feelings. If they can tell you afterwards but cannot catch it before it gets too big, start with body clues.

Which emotions tool for which moment

Every child shows big feelings in their own way, so these are places to start exploring what supports your child, through the power of play.

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    A child with big feelings who cannot yet tell you what they are. This kit works with the same twenty feeling words through bingo, face drawing, stamps and photos of your own faces, so your child learns the names while they are calm. It comes with more than three hours of video, including ones directly for your child, and a parent guide.

    An open teal The Play Way box with the Naming Feelings Play Kit contents arranged above it: the rainbow Emotions Buddy box, the Bingo Emotions game with its boards, cards and tokens, an Emotions Check-in poster, emotions playing cards, the What face is that? box with liquid chalk markers and coloured pens, a mini printer with paper rolls, wooden face stamps, rainbow modelling clay and the program booklet.
    An open teal The Play Way box with the Naming Feelings Play Kit contents arranged above it: the rainbow Emotions Buddy box, the Bingo Emotions game with its boards, cards and tokens, an Emotions Check-in poster, emotions playing cards, the What face is that? box with liquid chalk markers and coloured pens, a mini printer with paper rolls, wooden face stamps, rainbow modelling clay and the program booklet.
    The Play Way
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    Naming Feelings Play Kit

    Regular price $97.00
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    Support your child to put a name to what they are feeling through games, faces...

  • A moment like this

    A child who goes from zero to 100, and can only tell you what set them off afterwards. These interoception activities help them notice what their body is telling them, like a racing heart or a growling stomach, with lots of play-based, hands-on opportunities to understand it. An hour and a half of video from our therapists walks you through every tool, and takes your child through the workbook page by page.

    An open teal The Play Way box with the Body Clues Play Kit contents arranged above it: the yellow Slimy Surgeons science kit, the Interoception Learning Snapshot booklet, the green Body Clues workbook, the mierEdu All About Body and Emotions magnetic body board with its organ pieces and cards, a box of modelling dough, sticker sheets, Body Clues cards and the program booklet.
    An open teal The Play Way box with the Body Clues Play Kit contents arranged above it: the yellow Slimy Surgeons science kit, the Interoception Learning Snapshot booklet, the green Body Clues workbook, the mierEdu All About Body and Emotions magnetic body board with its organ pieces and cards, a box of modelling dough, sticker sheets, Body Clues cards and the program booklet.
    The Play Way
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    Body Clues Play Kit

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    Support your child to catch what their body is doing and read the signals it...

  • A moment like this

    A child learning feeling words who would much rather play than talk about feelings. Feelings bingo for two to four players: mark off each emotion as it is called and race to shout "Emotions!"

    The Play Way's Bingo Emotions game box displays colorful cartoon emotions, encouraging kids to recognize and understand feelings through play.
    The Play Way's Bingo Emotions game box displays colorful cartoon emotions, encouraging kids to recognize and understand feelings through play.
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    Bingo Emotions Game

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    Brace yourself for all the feelings as you play BINGO Emotions! This game weaves the...

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    A child who is still learning to read the look on someone's face. This emotion faces game uses role play and drawing to make a face for each feeling, and then talk about it.

    Sensory Play Australia "What Face Is That?" game box with colorful illustrated faces, exploring emotions for ages 3+.
    Sensory Play Australia "What Face Is That?" game box with colorful illustrated faces, exploring emotions for ages 3+.
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    Sensory Play Australia

    What face is that? Game

    Regular price $27.00
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    Discover the world of emotions through role-play, art, and creativity with "What Face Is That?"....

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    A child who needs a regular feelings check-in that does not feel like a big conversation. The Emotions Buddy explores 20 core emotions through activities and prompts you can come back to when things are calm.

    Sensory Play Australia Emotions Buddy Naming Feelings Set: an open box revealing books, cards, and posters for emotional learning.
    Sensory Play Australia Emotions Buddy Naming Feelings Set: an open box revealing books, cards, and posters for emotional learning.
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    Sensory Play Australia

    Emotions Buddy Naming Feelings Set

    Regular price $34.50
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    When children have the ability to recognise and understand emotions in themselves and others, they...

  • A moment like this

    A little one who is learning feeling words and loves the bath. Twelve pairs of foam feelings pieces float and stick to the tiles for a bath time memory game.

    Box for Sensory Play Australia's Bath Memory: Emotions game, a therapist-designed tool with 24 foam pieces for learning feelings.
    Box for Sensory Play Australia's Bath Memory: Emotions game, a therapist-designed tool with 24 foam pieces for learning feelings.
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    Sensory Play Australia

    Bath Memory: Emotions

    Regular price $13.00
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    Splish, splash, and learn about emotions! Emotions Bath Memory turns bath time into a fun...

  • A moment like this

    A child who is curious about how their body works. In these printable body awareness activities, they become a body detective, finding out what their heart, lungs, tummy, bladder, muscles and brain are telling them.

    Body Clues workbook cover with a green magnifying glass over an eye on a blue background.
    Body Clues workbook cover with a green magnifying glass over an eye on a blue background.
    The Play Way

    Learning About My Body Workbook Digital Resource

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    This engaging workbook guides children through a series of missions to learn how their heart,...

Frequently asked questions

How do you teach a child about emotions?

Start when they’re calm and regulated, and use play. Nobody learns a new word in the middle of a meltdown, so the practice has to happen in the calm moments. Name feelings out loud as they happen, including your own, and give them more than just happy, sad and angry to choose from. A game does a lot of this work for you, because a child who can’t engage in listening to learn will likely get a lot from a play-based approach.

What games teach feelings and emotions?

Face matching is a fun place to start, because a picture is simpler than a word. What face is that? and the emotions bingo both work that way, and both take two or more players. Bath memory suits a younger child, or one who talks more easily when they don’t feel like there’s any pressure to learn something, or win a game against others.

The Emotions Buddy goes further than a single game. Twenty core emotions sit inside it, with activities for exploring and talking about each one, for ages three to twelve.

The two play kits go further again. Naming Feelings works through games, faces and photographs. Body Clues works on reading the signals the body is sending. Both carry the tools and the teaching from our therapy team, so you get the how and the why alongside the games.

What age do children understand emotions?

Roughly around age two to three for the big ones: happy, sad, angry and scared. More subtle feelings like frustrated, embarrassed or disappointed usually come a bit later, and some children need them explicitly taught rather than simply picking them up along the way. Our sets run from about two up to twelve depending on the developmental stage of the child, so start with pictures and matching at the younger end, and move to naming and reflecting as they grow.

How do you help a child who cannot tell you how they feel?

Take the talking out of it. A child who goes quiet under a direct question might be able to point at a card, match a face, or put a sticker on instead. Sitting side by side with a game usually gets further than sitting opposite them and asking lots of questions. Play, play, play and let the tools and your presence and connection do the work is our recommended approach.

What are body clues?

The signals a body sends before a feeling has a name. A racing heart, a tight chest, a stomach that growls, hands that will not stay still. A child who learns to catch those clues often gets a chance to say something before it gets too big to handle. When a child can’t identify their body clues early enough, that’s when you might see things built up and exploding. It is the step underneath naming feelings, and for some children identifying these clues is a real challenge that our body clues play kit walks you through the process of understanding and supporting.