Feelings and Dealings: an Emotions and Empathy Card Game | Emotional Intelligence for Kids Ages 3–7 | SEL Activities | Educational Counseling Tool for Parents, Teachers & Therapists

This multi-option card game is delightful and effective. The illustrations and ideas behind its creation are well thought out. As a therapist, I am finding many ways to use it. The cards easily expand a child's emotional vocabulary beyond happy, mad, sad, etc. I do not have access to my clients in everyday life to help them label an emotion in the moment, so the Social Situation cards help us imagine, and talk about a similar experience. Self-awareness of emotions and the verbal expression of thoughts that go with them provide kids with an alternative to acting out the frustration that accompanies an inability to find the words. I also sent a deck to my grandsons. Any parent who plays with these to teach their kids will have the same vocabulary and know to encourage it’s use. Great contribution! Licensed Mental Health Counselor

I love how thick the cards are and have lasted a long time with lots of handling! Great visual tool to help kids with expression, emotion, and verbalization.

These cards are made of sturdy cardstock, nicely illustrated with images of small children acting out each feeling/behavior that kids in my K-1 classroom enjoy playing. They are epecially good for kids on the spectrum who need visual cues and they are also perfect for the general population as well. It prompts thought and conversation about each scenario card being played. It's a simple deck of playing cards with positive behavioural outcomes.

I use these cards with my 3 year old grandson to talk about different emotions and feelings. They are a great learning tool, even if u don’t play a game. I show him the happy card and we talk about things that make us happy. I show him the frustrated card and we talk about things that make us frustrated, which I turn let’s us talk about how we can handle the tougher emotions. This is a excellent product, even in its simplest form. I’m sure we will progress to game play with it, but shows symptoms of adhd and has difficulty handling his emotions, as all children do at times and this is a great way to start a conversation about such things with out being in the heat of the moment. Highly highly highly recommended.

Good game as part of a broader conversation in early childhood about emotions and coping skills. This is one set of tools to have as a parent or teacher of young children.

I did not receive compensation or incentive for my purchase or review. I just found them while browsing for SEL tools. I cannot recommend this enough. I am so thankful that something like this exists. It has helped tremendously with my preschooler's language development. She struggled with Echolalia till age 4, and still (age 5) can't "use her own words" to relay what she's thinking sometimes. The give/take conversations have improved tremendously. Even without language issues, this set would be highly beneficial to any child in understanding emotions. Every household should own a set! She isn't far along enough for the games quite yet, but we work on 2 feelings/scenarios a week and incorporate it into play with Dolls as well so she really gets it for her age. It has also helpes with tantrums because we talk about coping skills for all the emotions. The representation of diversity is so refreshing. We have a mixed family so I cannot thank the creators enough for this.

I use these cards for the scenes on them. They are positive and negative and show diversity in its characters. I ask the child what's happening in the scene to get a sense of their perspective and then ask them what they think will happen next. It's been very insightful into their worlds. I can also see using the feelings cards to have them act out the feelings or talk about a time when they had the feeling. The games the product suggests are mostly matching games, you can pair the emotion with the scene. Very good product, the kids liked it.

I wish this was more of a "game" as advertised. Instead, you receive cards with either an illustration of an emotion or a social scene. The instructions are limited and this isn't really an interactive game as you would think. However, the quality of the cards are good and the images are engaging and I like that multiple races are utilized. Overall I would give this a 3.5 star rating.