What's inside, suggested answers, and conversation prompts to go alongside the activities in your Big Feelings Busy Book.
Flip each Velcro circle to reveal an animal and its emotion — 30 emotions across two spreads. Each spread ends with a mirror page, so your child can mimic the expression they just found.
A Velcro matching activity — pair each animal with its opposite emotion (12 pairs total, the same emotion pairs used in Memory Match).
Build a facial expression using Velcro eyes, eyebrows and mouth pieces, cycling one character through several different emotions.
A body-emotion connection activity. Place Velcro cards on the body: a heart for positive feelings, a bandage for painful ones, a burst for intense ones.
Match a feeling to a coping strategy, across two characters. Arya the Ant: Angry → Deep Breaths, Grumpy → Big Stomps, Hungry → Have a Snack. Sol the Sloth: Sad → Talk it Out, Anxious → Press Palms, Overwhelmed → Gentle Squeeze.
Four short scenarios. Your child chooses how the character might feel from four emotion cards — there are no wrong answers.
Two scenarios about taking turns and sharing. Your child ranks three kind responses in the order they'd try them — every option offered is a kind one.
A reward page. Your child earns a sticker for completing an activity, or for showing real-life emotional intelligence you notice yourself — stuck onto a double-decker bus as they go.
The book's own philosophy: there are no wrong answers here. These are the intended answers if you want them — but the conversation matters more than getting it "right."
This book explores emotions, moods and feelings broadly — including physical states like Tired or Hungry. Use these as a springboard to help your child notice and name what's happening in their own body and mind, not just the "big" emotions.
The book calls its reward page "Emotion Explorer" — earn these in the busy book, and in real life. The eight stickers are: