💫How It Works

(Simple. Gentle. Scaffolding built-in. Co-use expected.)

Little Peanut helps children recognise, express, and work through big emotions — using soft visuals, tactile play, and adult-guided moments. Whether in a home, clinic, or classroom, the kit grows with your child’s emotional literacy, step by step.

🌟 Step 1: Match the Feeling

A child picks a face card or visual that reflects how they feel.
An adult may support by pointing, naming, or mirroring.

🌱 Builds:

  • Emotion recognition

  • Non-verbal communication

  • Visual matching

🌱 Reveals:

  • How the child processes emotion visually

  • Preferred ways to express feelings

  • Comfort with identifying emotions

  • Regulation state (engaged, distracted, hesitant)

🌟 Step 2: Play + Explore With Support

Together, they place the emotion on Little Peanut and gently explore what might be going on inside.
Adults can narrate, model, or respond to cues with curiosity and care.

🌱 Builds:

  • Sensory regulation

  • Emotional confidence

  • Coping strategies

🌱 Reveals:

  • What calming methods feel safe or effective

  • Sensory or movement preferences

  • Capacity for follow-through or co-regulation

  • Signs of emotional flexibility and self-awareness

🌱 Builds:

  • Emotional safety

  • Self-expression

  • Co-regulation

🌱 Reveals:

  • Emotional vocabulary and language style

  • Internal stories or patterns the child uses

  • Need for support or space

  • Adult-child dynamics (connection, resistance, trust)

🌟 Step 3: Try a Calm Plan

The child selects a Calm Plan card — such as “drink water,” “deep breaths,” or “butterfly hugs.”
They might act it out, hold it as a sensory tool, or mirror the adult.

Grows With the Child

As children grow, so does Little Peanut.
The kit supports early imitation, symbolic play, and eventually: reflection, problem-solving, and peer-based emotional scenarios.
It’s designed to grow with your child — from early intervention to early primary — and meet them exactly where they are.

💡 Some professionals use Little Peanut as part of emotional check-ins and early co-regulation screening.

If you’d like to explore how Little Peanut might support your work, we’d love to hear from you.