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.

I love this game with my kids at school. So simple, yet helps them recognize common emotions in a fun way!

A little expensive for a deck of cards but my three year old loves them. She likes to play them all the time and we match and talk about how each child feels. Useful tool to get them talking about feelings. Only con is the price!

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.

The cards are sturdy and large enough for someone with a mild visual impairment to see what's in each illustration. We haven't used the card game instructions yet. The pictures starts conversations about how different people feel in different situations. The illustrated pictures of a single child's entire body depicting an emotion is a great way to help people describe how emotions can be read through body language.

The cards are sturdy, and art work is nice, but my 4 year old did not understand the significance of the game. He matched the cards at 100%, but he did so based on the same character and not on matching the emotion. If the emotion was displayed using different characters, he might focus more on matching the emotion.

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.