Help children understand, name, and navigate their emotions with these printable Feelings & Coping Cards for Kids.
Created to make emotional learning simple, approachable, and practical, these cards give children a gentle way to explore what they’re feeling, put emotions into words, and discover calming strategies they can practice when big feelings arise.
Developed with input from a child therapist, the cards combine emotion exploration, conversation prompts, and simple coping activities that you can use together at home, in the classroom, or during everyday emotional check-ins.
💛 WHAT’S INCLUDED
Choose the version that works best for your family:
Emotion Cards
- 12 different emotions
- Child-friendly explanations of each feeling
- Questions that encourage children to reflect and share
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Prompts such as “Nervous feels like…” and “Nervous looks like…”
- Gentle conversation starters to help children find their words
- Simple, age-appropriate coping strategies
Feelings Wheel — Optional Version
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A visual 12-emotion Feelings Wheel
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Use the arrow to point to an emotion
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Or add a wooden clothespin to mark how your child is feeling
- A simple way to create an everyday feelings check-in
🌈 MORE THAN JUST EMOTION CARDS
Each card is designed to help children move from recognizing a feeling → understanding it → finding a way to cope.
🌿 5 SENSES GROUNDING CARD
A dedicated grounding activity helps children pause and notice the world around them.
👧 GREAT FOR
- Toddlers & preschoolers
- Early learners
- Homeschool families
- Preschool & kindergarten classrooms
- Calm-down corners
- Feelings check-ins
- Morning or quiet-time routines
- Emotional learning activities
- Parent-child conversations
- Everyday moments when big feelings come up
🖨️ PRODUCT DETAILS
- Digital PDF download
- Instant digital access
- No physical product will be shipped
- Print at home or through your preferred print service
- For repeated use, print on cardstock and laminate or place in protective sleeves
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Choose between Emotion Cards or Emotion Cards + Feelings Wheel
📌 PLEASE NOTE
This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.
For personal use only. Commercial use, resale, sharing, and redistribution of the files are not permitted.
These materials are designed for educational and emotional-learning purposes and are not a substitute for professional mental-health care.
Big feelings are easier to understand when children have the words, support, and tools to express them. 💛
