Emotion Cards are personalized visual resources for naming feelings, exploring examples, and discussing supportive responses. They can help families and educators begin a conversation, but they do not diagnose, prescribe, or guarantee emotional or behavioral outcomes.
Why personalize emotion cards?
Make examples recognizable: use familiar situations, people, or places.
Build emotional vocabulary: connect a feeling word with a clear visual example.
Explore possible responses: pair emotions with positive actions or supportive strategies.
Practice away from a difficult moment: use the cards during calm, adult-guided conversation.
Before you begin
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Step 1: Open Emotion Cards
Open Create, choose Make one thing, then select Explore all.
Choose I want to explore an existing tool, then Emotion Cards.
Enter an emotion topic or use a suggestion such as identifying feelings, practicing self-regulation, building confidence, or expressing needs and wants.
Select Let’s design magic.
Step 2: Choose who is learning the feelings
Choose Start with a photo or Describe their look. Review the generated character before continuing. Use only the information needed for personalization.
Step 3: Customize the cards
On the content-details page, set:
Number of cards.
Reading level from Pre-Reader through Advanced Reader.
Card style:
Emotions and Positive Actions: Names an Emotion and a set of 3 actions to manage those emotions
Emotions Only: Names an emotion only
Social Emotional Goal: A Social Emotional Pillar and an example of how to.
Language.
Familiar people who may appear in examples.
Anything else to know, such as school situations, friendship examples, or calming strategies already used by the family or professional.
Select Let’s craft [child’s name]’s emotion cards when ready.
Step 4: Review the draft
Check every card for respectful language, clear emotion labels, realistic examples, and supportive actions that fit the child’s context. Avoid presenting one response as guaranteed to work. Edit available text or request a new version when needed.
Step 5: Continue to checkout [if not subscribed]
Select Continue after approving the draft. Follow the live account, email, credit, subscription, or purchase steps shown. Review current terms on the live page before proceeding.
Step 6: Review and Edit your images
After finalizing your cast, you'll be redirected to review your draft and edit text and images.
You can click on the text and edit its content, font size, font-weight and underline. You can also change its position on the screen by clicking on the grid icon.
For images, you can describe your edit, replace the background with a white fill or upload a reference photo to influence the change applied.
Good to know
Use Emotions Only for recognition and naming.
Use Emotions and Positive Actions when you want each feeling paired with a possible supportive response.
Use Social Emotional Examples when the context or interaction is central to the lesson.
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