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.
A young girl at a table holds up two Surprised emotion cards, mouth wide open in a surprised face, with polka dot card backs spread out in front.
An adult opens a drawstring bag of tokens beside the open Bingo Emotions box while a boy smiles across a magnetic bingo board, with orange and black play tokens on the table and two more boards in other hands.
A boy pulls a worried face while holding up a clear plastic board with a pink face drawn on it in chalk marker, next to a Scared emotion card held out by an adult hand.
A young girl watches an adult point at a flattened white circle of modelling clay, with green, orange, pink and teal clay pieces, four wooden face stamps and printed emotion character sheets on the table.
Overhead view of an open feelings journal filled in for Grateful in pencil, with modelling clay faces in orange, yellow and blue on the table and a scatter of emotion character cards including Worried, Guilty, Bored and Anxious.
A boy at a fridge places a small worried character card beside a black and white photograph, on two Emotions Check-in posters, one printed with twenty emotion characters and one left blank.
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.
A young girl at a table holds up two Surprised emotion cards, mouth wide open in a surprised face, with polka dot card backs spread out in front.
An adult opens a drawstring bag of tokens beside the open Bingo Emotions box while a boy smiles across a magnetic bingo board, with orange and black play tokens on the table and two more boards in other hands.
A boy pulls a worried face while holding up a clear plastic board with a pink face drawn on it in chalk marker, next to a Scared emotion card held out by an adult hand.
A young girl watches an adult point at a flattened white circle of modelling clay, with green, orange, pink and teal clay pieces, four wooden face stamps and printed emotion character sheets on the table.
Overhead view of an open feelings journal filled in for Grateful in pencil, with modelling clay faces in orange, yellow and blue on the table and a scatter of emotion character cards including Worried, Guilty, Bored and Anxious.
A boy at a fridge places a small worried character card beside a black and white photograph, on two Emotions Check-in posters, one printed with twenty emotion characters and one left blank.
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.
A young girl at a table holds up two Surprised emotion cards, mouth wide open in a surprised face, with polka dot card backs spread out in front.
An adult opens a drawstring bag of tokens beside the open Bingo Emotions box while a boy smiles across a magnetic bingo board, with orange and black play tokens on the table and two more boards in other hands.
A boy pulls a worried face while holding up a clear plastic board with a pink face drawn on it in chalk marker, next to a Scared emotion card held out by an adult hand.
A young girl watches an adult point at a flattened white circle of modelling clay, with green, orange, pink and teal clay pieces, four wooden face stamps and printed emotion character sheets on the table.
Overhead view of an open feelings journal filled in for Grateful in pencil, with modelling clay faces in orange, yellow and blue on the table and a scatter of emotion character cards including Worried, Guilty, Bored and Anxious.
A boy at a fridge places a small worried character card beside a black and white photograph, on two Emotions Check-in posters, one printed with twenty emotion characters and one left blank.
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.
A young girl at a table holds up two Surprised emotion cards, mouth wide open in a surprised face, with polka dot card backs spread out in front.
An adult opens a drawstring bag of tokens beside the open Bingo Emotions box while a boy smiles across a magnetic bingo board, with orange and black play tokens on the table and two more boards in other hands.
A boy pulls a worried face while holding up a clear plastic board with a pink face drawn on it in chalk marker, next to a Scared emotion card held out by an adult hand.
A young girl watches an adult point at a flattened white circle of modelling clay, with green, orange, pink and teal clay pieces, four wooden face stamps and printed emotion character sheets on the table.
Overhead view of an open feelings journal filled in for Grateful in pencil, with modelling clay faces in orange, yellow and blue on the table and a scatter of emotion character cards including Worried, Guilty, Bored and Anxious.
A boy at a fridge places a small worried character card beside a black and white photograph, on two Emotions Check-in posters, one printed with twenty emotion characters and one left blank.

Naming Feelings Play Kit

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Support your child to put a name to what they are feeling through games, faces and photographs so they can build their emotional literacy skills through the joy of play.

This play kit was curated by our therapy team for the child who can make it obvious that that they are feeling something but don’t have the words for it. A feeling they can’t name is a feeling they can’t ask for help with. This kit teaches them the names while they have their thinking part of the brain is switched on, rather than trying to get through to them in the middle of a meltdown. We have two emotions play kits and this is the one to start with if they can show you loud and clear that something is wrong, but cannot tell you what that big feeling was, even once it’s passed.
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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.

Naming Feelings Play Kit

Regular price $97.00
Sale price $97.00 Regular price $0.00
Unit price

WHAT'S INSIDE

What's in this play kit

A full kit of play-tools, curated to work together.
Bingo Emotions

Bingo Emotions

Eight magnetic activity boards, a bag of tokens and a deck of emotion cards, and a Ways to Play booklet. Played alone or with up to four players. Helps them learn to name and identify emotions in a fun and play-based way.
What Face Is That? set

What Face Is That? set

Two clear boards, liquid chalk markers, modelling clay and wooden face stamps, with ten double sided cards carrying a human face on one side and the matching emotion character on the other. You hold a clear board up in front of your own face and your child draws the feeling that’s written all over your face, straight onto the board. And then you switch. Helps explore the different ways to read emotions and put language to them.
Emotions Buddy

Emotions Buddy

Two check-in posters, one printed with the characters and one left blank for your child to fill in what each feeling looks like for them, plus fridge magnets, a deck of playing cards for snap and memory and go fish, a colouring book and a feelings journal. Put the poster up at your child's height and they can walk over and point at how they are feeling if they can’t find the words for it.
Mini printer

Mini printer

A pocket printer that pairs with your phone and prints onto sticker paper, with spare rolls in the box. Take a photo of your child pulling their best angry face, print it, stick it in the journal, then do yours. It gives your child another play-based medium to explore, read and name emotions.
Parent Guide

Parent Guide

A short guide for you (the adult), covering what each thing in the box is for, where to start, and how to bring a feeling up without it turning into a lecture.

Why we built it this way

Twenty feelings

Twenty feelings

Once they have the words and concepts, your child can start to communicate their feelings. Every tool in this box works the same twenty feelings in a different way. Keeping it fun and light when often conversations about big feelings are serious and triggering.
Reading it on somebody else

Reading it on somebody else

A lot of this box is about other people. Your child learns to read a face that is not their own, on you, on a sibling, on a peer. A child who can understand and communicate their own feelings alongside the feelings of others can feel confident and connected in their interactions.
Model it for them

Model it for them

Your child can open the box, pick something and get playing. Your role is to simply follow their lead, and the model the language for them: name your own feeling at the dinner table, the way you would mention the weather. I got really nervous today. Play the games, and narrate your own feelings. Simple, and so effective.

INCLUDED WITH YOUR PLAY KIT

The videos that come with it

Everything in the kit is ready to use from the day it arrives, so your child can be dealing out a round of bingo as soon as they open the box. When you want the learning behind it, there is more than three hours of video. One set walks the adult through every item in the box. And the second set is spoken straight to your child, so they can get a game going on their own. Then there is a longer set for you on the order in which these skills develop and explaining co-regulation, which is you staying steady beside your child. We'll send your invitation to access it all when your kit ships.

WHO THIS PLAY KIT IS FOR

If it sounds like this at your place

  • Their feelings are so big but they don’t have the words to help me understand what’s going on for them.
  • I try to teach them about emotions and they just aren’t interested in hearing another lecture from me.
  • Nobody talked about feelings when I was growing up, so I am working this out as I go because I want it to be different for my child.
If any of that sounds like your family, this is who we built the play kit for.

Who made this

Kait is an OT. She has been working with children and families for nearly 20 years, and she has four kids of her own. This play kit helps us build one of the most important skills a child needs: being able to tell somebody else what is going on in their feelings. And before they can tell you, they have to be able know what it is, and name it. And we teach that through play. Kait and her team worked with our designers for the best part of the year to get the emotions characters, right down to what each set of eyebrows is doing. They then put them on every card, poster, magnet and page in the box for consistency and repetition. Your child sees the same face for worried on the bingo board, on the poster, on a magnet, in the colouring book and in the journal, and that’s how the word ends up sticking with them.
  • 5,000+
    Australian children have used our play kits
  • 20 years
    of Kait working with children and families

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