WHY FEEL & PLAY?
Society has a growing need for Emotional Skills. Each of us is different, with our own strengths and weaknesses, and emotional skills are a central part of the well-being of all of us. They affect how we experience things and how we decide to act based on our experience. Emotional skills can be divided into the ability to perceive and identify emotions, and the ability to understand contents of emotions and the ability to express and regulate emotions. We need emotional skills to promote our children´s well-being as well as functioning social skills for creating and maintaining relationships.
WHAT IS IT?
Feel & Play is a musical application for practicing emotional skills, created together with the Finnish Board of Education and dozens of kindergartens, primary schools and music therapists. Identifying and expressing all emotions is allowed for every child. Emotions are not classified as good or bad, positive or negative, permitted or forbidden. Creativity is stimulated through storytelling, music and playful sections, through which children can listen for themselves, to paint the emotions that the music evokes, or play the fantasy instruments. Creativity is the key for the childs senses to learn, become inspired, get stronger and also relax. The gamified sections are easy to use and child-friendly. The app is aimed at 2-8-year-olds, but it is easily suitable also for younger or for older children. Adults are allowed to play too!
FEATURES
- Animated and narrated Musical Stories to discover Emotions in changing context
- Fantasy Instruments to express your childs creativity and imagination
- Musical Painting included in all Adventures
- Emotional Glossary with our signature FEELIES which help to learn and name new Emotions
- Basic Set of 18 Emotions
BULLYING PREVENTION BY SUPPORTING EMOTIONAL SKILLS
Bullying of small children is often a matter of immature or lacking emotional and interaction skills. Bullying has been found to be especially connected to the control of emotions and the ability to empathize, which are skills that prevent bullying. Learning good enough emotional and interaction skills is a central part of the developmental task of childhood. According to research, with systematic and long-term teaching of emotional skills, it has been possible to increase childrens self-esteem and emotional resilience and reduce negative behavior such as bullying, aggression or racism.
EMBRACING NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Play, storytelling and creative expression are natural ways of acting for a small child, and these can also be utilized in teaching emotional skills. According to research, music in particular has a connection with emotions and music is well suited as a tool for learning emotional skills. Music makes it possible to experience, understand and express even complex emotions. With the help of music, cooperation skills, experience of togetherness, empathy and active listening can be practiced.
FEEDBACK FROM SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS
"With the help of the application, the teachers discovered new strengths in the children - joy and excitement of success was strongly present. "
"Previously, a child who was almost completely speechless was inspired to speak out loud while painting with Musical Painting.”
"The application was incredibly good at helping children with attention deficit disorder to focus and process their emotions in new ways!"
"The Musical Painting caused WOW exclamations. The Fantasy Instrument inspired and made us laugh."
"In the Musical Painting, the different music samples motivated the students to listen, and encouraged everyone to participate in the drawing."
Feel & Play app is available in Finnish, Swedish and English. You will find the language options from the applications main menu.
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