Bear Feelings Cards & Stickers: 5 ways to use them with kids

The Bear Cards: Feelings is a beautiful, high quality set of feeling cards featuring 48 bear characters using both facial expression and body language to show a wide range of emotions, without words.

Thousands of therapists, teachers and child welfare workers across the world have used The Bear Cards in assisting children to recognise, identify and talk about feelings.

The Bear Cards can be used to support a lot of meaningful discussion and activities around feelings & emotions:

1. Conversation Starters: use cards to discuss different feelings/emotions and to encourage children to express themselves and share experiences.
2. Emotional Education: teach children about various emotions and help them recognise and label these feelings accurately.
3. Emotional Regulation: guide children in understanding how to manage and regulate their emotions effectively. The Bear images can serve as a visual aid during mindfulness exercises or relaxation techniques, helping children identify their feelings and choose appropriate strategies to respond to them.
4. Storytelling & Creative Play: let the bear characters inspire storytelling adventures, where children can invent narratives around different emotions and learn to empathise with characters experiencing various feelings. These cards can also be integrated into imaginative play, enabling children to explore and express emotions through role-playing.
5. Classroom & Therapy aids: in educational or therapeutic settings, the bear emotions can be used to facilitate group discussions, teach social-emotional skills, and support children in understanding and managing their emotions.

The Bear characters are also available in the form of a small sticker book and can be used in the above contexts or applied to a range of mediums/materials to create meaningful play, therapeutic and/or learning activities. For example books, scenes, rocks, magnets,etc.