"As a licensed child counselor, I highly recommend The Young Nature Explorers Guide to Emotions as an engaging resource for helping children build emotional language.

The nature-based metaphors make emotions feel clearer and less fuzzy, helping children talk about what’s happening inside.

Each card includes ways to identify and respond to feelings, blending body-based actions, calming strategies, imagination, and connection with others.

This is a wonderful resource for counselors, teachers, and parents supporting children’s emotional development."

"I love the analogies / connections between natural elements and emotions, and how they can both shift and change; there are no good / bad emotions or weather.

I think this is a clever way for children to understand and accept that emotions are not positive or negative, they can sit with them and find ways to feel and respond in appropriate ways.

I also love the connection to the senses and how their bodies feel. The pictures, faces and the words convey through visual, aural and proprioceptive / interoceptive clues that support the children’s understandings in multi-layered ways, therefore support different learning dispositions.

I like how there are additional cards that enable the children to create their own. It would be so interesting to see which words children came up with to correspond with emotions.

The cards are also very visually appealing, well laid out and use of colours that are attractive without being overwhelming. Having the different sized cards allows for great flexibility: the large ones for display or group use, smaller ones that can be taken along during offsite visits and put on a lanyard or a flip-ring set.

Lots of our services are working on emotional awareness and regulation with children, so this resource really supports those skills."