Nurture Gnomes – Emotion Stones

I am a wife, mum to two adult sons (the youngest of whom is autistic).
Until recently, I have spent 24 years working in special needs education
and currently work as a parent support volunteer for our local autism
charity.

During Covid I wrote a children’s book about a little gnome who struggled
to talk about his emotions and this sparked the idea of using my skills to
create a range of resources designed to support children’s social
emotional development. These are currently being used by parents,
schools and play therapists.

In October 2022 I was lucky enough to win a small business award from
Theo Paphitis (Dragon’s Den) and this year was a finalist in the Rising Star
Category, winning a Highly Commended Award from We Are The City
(women in business).

Emotions Stones
These fun, hand-painted stones contain 18 emotions and 2 characters.
While children are learning about different emotions, they can also use the 
characters to role-play.

Role-playing can be very much child-led; when they are using their imagination, 
they are also improving their language skills and maybe opening up their own
 feelings, when they may have encountered a difficult situation. By putting these 
into words can also reduce the severity of some of their feelings, leading to
 healthy social and emotional development.

 (includes 48 hour tracked postage)