Creative tools for children who feel things deeply.
Some feelings are too big for words at first. A child might cry. Go quiet. Avoid something. Say “I don’t know” when you can feel there is more underneath.
The Big Feelings Project gives children a creative way to notice, understand and express what is happening inside.
Notice.
Next step.
A creative way into big feelings.
The Big Feelings Project helps children talk about change, express big feelings, build emotional awareness, grow confidence before transitions, understand what is happening inside, use tools that work for them and take one small confident next step.
Some children cannot explain everything with words straight away. Sometimes the drawing comes first. The colour comes first. The shape comes first.
The creative tool opens the conversation. Then the words can follow.
Simple tools children and parents can return to.
This is not therapy. It is not about labelling children. It is not about making big feelings disappear. It is about helping children build simple tools they can come back to.
Notice
Helping children pause and begin to notice what they feel, without needing perfect words straight away.
Express
Using drawing, colour, shape and simple prompts to express what might be happening inside.
Take one step
Supporting children to build confidence before transitions and take one small next step.
Start with the Big Feelings Toolkit.
The Big Feelings Toolkit is a simple parent resource for big feelings, change and school transitions.
It helps parents support children who feel things deeply, struggle to explain what is happening inside, or need creative tools to understand and express big feelings.
Use it before the next change, wobble or big feeling.
- Pause
- Notice what they feel
- Talk about change
- Express big feelings
- Build confidence before a transition
- Take one small next step
The A School uses the TRUST Framework.
The Big Feelings Project uses this method gently, through creative resources children and parents can return to.
For parents who want a simple way to help.
You do not need to have the perfect words. You do not need to fix every feeling. You do not need a complicated system.
Sometimes a child needs a simple creative tool that helps them show you what words cannot explain yet.
That is where the Big Feelings Toolkit begins.
Use it before the next wobble.
A simple creative resource to help children talk about change, express big feelings and build confidence before the next transition.
Creative emotional literacy tools for children.
The Big Feelings Project can also support schools and community spaces that want creative emotional literacy tools for children.
This may include parent-child tools, classroom toolkit packs, creative self-trust sessions, workshops, TRUST Framework resources or school / community delivery.
Start with the Big Feelings Toolkit.
A simple creative resource to help children talk about change, express big feelings and build confidence before the next transition.