Visual Emotion Communication Tag Set | Helping Children Express Big Feelings

Every feeling deserves to be understood.

For some children, knowing how they feel is difficult enough. Finding the words to explain those feelings can be even harder.

The Visual Emotion Communication Tag Set provides a simple, tactile way for children to identify and communicate five common emotions using clear visual symbols. Whether they're feeling happy, sad, worried, excited or overwhelmed, these durable tags help children express themselves without needing to find the perfect words. The set includes five colour-coded, 3D-printed emotion tags designed for everyday communication at home, school and on the go.

Perfect for children who benefit from visual communication, these portable emotion tags can be clipped onto a backpack, lanyard or keyring so emotional support is always close by.

💜 Why Thrive Recommends It

At Thrive Creations, we only recommend products that we genuinely believe could make life a little easier for SEN families.

Helping children recognise and communicate their emotions is one of the most important foundations of emotional regulation.

As both a former remedial teacher and SEN parent, I've seen how visual supports can give children the confidence to share how they're feeling, especially during moments when words feel overwhelming. Sometimes simply being able to point to an emotion is the first step towards feeling understood.

Who might benefit?

This set may be particularly helpful for children who:

- Find it difficult to express emotions verbally
- Benefit from visual communication
- Become overwhelmed during big feelings
- Are learning emotional awareness
- Prefer visual supports over spoken language
- Need simple communication tools while out and about
- Thrive with consistent emotional vocabulary

Features

- Five everyday emotion tags:
😀 Happy
😥 Sad
😟 Worried
😁 Excited
🫣 Overwhelmed
- Durable 3D-printed design
- Colour-coded for quick recognition
- Raised tactile symbols for sensory feedback
- Lightweight and portable
- Easily clips onto bags, lanyards or keyrings
- Suitable for home, school and community use 
Please note: Lanyard is not included.

Perfect For

- Home
- School
- Nursery
- Therapy sessions
- Family outings
- Emotional check-ins
- Calm corners
- Everyday communication

Good to Know

Includes: 5 emotion communication tags

Design: Durable 3D-printed tactile symbols

Portable: Designed to travel wherever your child goes

Every Child Is Different

Every child experiences emotions differently. Some children are able to talk openly about how they're feeling, while others need visual or tactile supports to help communicate their emotions.

There isn't a "right" way to express feelings. Tools like these simply make emotional communication easier, helping children feel heard, understood and supported.

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Helping children understand their emotions often works best when we combine visual supports, practical activities and stories they can relate to. These Thrive Creations resources complement the Visual Emotion Communication Tag Set by supporting emotional awareness in different ways.

My Emotions & Regulation Workbook - Recognising an emotion is just the beginning. Once children can identify how they're feeling, they need the tools to understand those emotions and learn healthy ways to respond. This workbook helps children explore their feelings through child-friendly explanations, emotional check-in pages and practical calming strategies. Covering topics such as recognising emotions, body clues, triggers, coping skills and self-regulation, it's designed to build confidence while helping children better understand themselves.

The Mood Mates Book Series - Sometimes children connect with stories in ways they can't with conversations alone. Our Mood Mates series introduces lovable characters who each experience a different emotion, helping children realise that big feelings are normal and that they're not alone. Through relatable stories and practical coping strategies, the series gently teaches emotional awareness, resilience and self-regulation in a way that children can understand and enjoy.

Together, these resources help children move from simply recognising emotions to understanding them, talking about them and learning healthy ways to manage them.