Comfort Keepers

Sooner or later, we must all make friends with our feelings. Give children a head start with Cosy’s Comfort Keepers. Crafted from durable felt, these bold and colourful companions express six crucial feelings in a cuddly form. Children are empowered to explore their inner world and develop emotional intelligence.

Soft, safe, and perfectly sized, our Comfort Keepers are ideal for passing around during circle time. Children interact with these characters through check-ins, role play, and other enriching carpet time activities, advancing their self-expression, empathy, and relational skills. Vivid colours and tactile details consolidate their command of colours, shapes, and facial features while they develop new language around feelings. 

Offering a range of friendly faces, Cosy’s Comfort Keepers support children’s mastery of self-regulation. Cleverly combine them with our Indoor Wicker Hideout and Weighted Blanket to create a safe space, encouraging children to investigate their emotions and self-reflect.

Empower young learners to self-soothe or prompt collaborative and imaginative play. Whatever their use, Comfort Keepers turn abstract emotions tangible – a uniquely enriching and engaging addition to your early years setting. 

Features

• Durable Felt Fabric: Soft to the touch yet resilient, Comfort Keepers are crafted from high-quality textiles withstand use in the busiest EYFS classrooms. 
• Sensory Stitching: Thick, stitched-on details enrich children’s tactile experience and offer superior sustainability compared to plastic products.
• Smooth, Spherical Shape: Cosy’s Comfort Keepers are ideal for throwing and catching, with rounded forms ensuring softness and safety. 
• Measurements: Comfort Keepers range from 7 to 8 cm in diameter, making them lightweight and perfectly proportioned for children to handle in active play. 
• Six-Piece Set: This comprehensive set includes six characters expressing happiness, sadness, anger, and more, providing a balanced range of reference points for children’s emotional exploration.

Benefits

• Developing Emotional Awareness: Encouraging children to identify and investigate their feelings, Cosy’s Comfort Keepers foster emotional intelligence and deeper self-awareness.
• Supporting Language Development: Use Comfort Keepers in descriptive activities to enrich children’s vocabulary around emotions as well as shapes, colours, and facial features.
• Empathy and Understanding: Children increase their interpersonal insight and improve their relation skills through feelings-based role play and group activities. 
• Gross Motor Skills: Catching and naming Comfort Keepers supports children’s hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness while they learn about emotions.
• Self-Regulation: These tactile tools provide sensory companions that mirror children’s feelings back to them, creating opportunities to explore self-regulation.