Mood Mate

Mood Mate is a mixed media education tool that can support children in understanding, communicating, and resolving their emotions in a sensory and validating way. Made for children aged 5 – 8 years old. Emotional education is critical as it promotes social and cognitive interaction skills while enhancing empathy and emotional expression. These abilities are crucial in our daily lives for establishing healthy relations and be able to succeed in the future. This topic is important as it is not a required torte subject in Key stage 1 and 2 on the national UK curriculum. This highlights how emotional health is currently viewed.

The goal of MOOD MATE is to:

1. Teach communication
2. Normalise emotions
3. Provide knowledge of physical symptoms
4. Create sensory connections
5. Regulate emotions

To gain knowledge, we have been communicating with different schools and teachers to find out the best ways children can learn.

Our activity:

Each Mood Mate consists of a card. For example, the angry tomato, which contains

• Descriptive words associated with the emotion
• Definition of what this emotion is
• Information on how our body, face, and voice can react to an emotion
• What a child can do when they feel this way
• How they can help a friend if they are feeling this way
• QR Code connecting to an animation with audio
• Physical toy to play with

Ultimately, the goal of this product is to be used within a school as a resource and advocate for emotional education to be in the UK curriculum. It also aims to provide a resource for children charity, in order to create better understanding, expand knowledge and build confidence on the subject of feeling and emotion.