Description
About the Bears
People of all ages go through strong emotions. Sometimes the emotions are fleeting, sometimes they are long-lasting, but often they are difficult to cope with and to articulate.
Children, especially, have difficulty in identifying and expressing how they feel, and as adults, we often don’t have someone we can trust or someone who wants to listen, even if we are ready to talk.
Mood Bears are always there and always ready to listen. They make no judgement, they can be trusted not to repeat what they hear, and if words are hard, they are good just to cuddle. Young and old have benefitted from ownership of these unique and specialised Mood Bears.
All eight mood bears have a distinctive colour to match the mood associated with their name, based on colour psychology, and each has paw shapes indicating the mood they depict. Each is designed to illustrate and reflect one of eight important human emotions. Mood Bears have been distributed in 60 different stores in the UK and Ireland and some have even made it to Australia and the USA.
Mood Bears are made from 100% recycled material and are machine washable. The Bears are tested to European and British safety standards and are suitable from birth.
There are currently eight mood bears
• Happy Bear
• Sad Bear
• Angry Bear
• Calm Bear
• Nervous Bear
• Hope Bear
• Love Bear
• Silly Bear
What our testers said
“Happy Bear helped my daughter feel less anxious going to school” Parent of a 6 year old.
| “It has a smiling face” Girl aged 3 |
What our experts think
Mood Bears are not just soft cuddly toys. Each bear has been designed to represent a key emotion or feeling. These bears are brightly coloured and each one has a kind and friendly face with the mood it represents stitched onto it’s feet. Each bear comes with a book introducing everyone in the Mood Bear family
The bears can help children express emotions they may not be able to describe as there is a bear to represent sad, angry, happy, love, silly, nervous, calm and hope. Children can choose which bear matches their feelings or mood each day as a way to communicate what they are going through. The bears are also a great tool for opening up discussions about emotions and mood as the book provided has a wonderful description of each bear and a short story about how the bear can help children negotiate the mood it represents.
Mood Bears are a fantastic tool to support children’s mental health and wellbeing and will support their personal, social and emotional development by opening up discussions relating to feelings and providing a source of comfort when in distress. They will develop a child’s ability to manage their own feelings and behaviour by providing comfort and explanation for normal emotions felt by us all at different times. These bears will no doubt also inspire imaginative play as the bears have their own individual characters that children will love to incorporate into their games.
Skills developed
– Develops personal social and emotional development
– Builds on the ability to manage own feelings and behaviour
– Inspires imaginative play
