Shop: The Emp Collection!
A series of premium products designed to engage children with The Emps. Each one psychologically informed and designed by an Educational Psychologist
Every Emp is an emotion. Every emotion has an Emp. Sadness, anger, worry, joy, all of them…
Children can't always explain what's happening inside them. But they can point at an Emp and this is where emotional literacy starts.
It is also where The Emp Collection comes in… The Full Collection has been designed by an Educational Psychologist to work together or to be used on their own separately. You choose.
Designed for parents and professionals alike, The Emp Collection gives one simple approach for every setting, so our children’s emotional development stays consistent at home, at school, and in professional practice.
The Plushies are held: Soft, cuddly and instantly lovable. The best way to have your own Emp in your home, classroom or therapy room. Not just another Plushie but an emotional literacy tool. Each Emp arrives complete with its own complementary fact card showing its associated body signals and simple steps to try when an emotion gets big.
The Emotion Cards you use together: A simple, but engaging way to explore emotions. What an emotion does in the body, and what might help, with a QR code on every card opening into a whole library of facts and strategies. Bright, colorful, pocket sized, kids love them. You’ll reach for them time and time again.
The Stickers put the Emps everywhere emotions actually happen: the calendar, the reward chart, the lunchbox, the morning check-in. Bright, colourful, instantly recognisable. Where will you stick yours?
Handmade Emps. Crocheted by Squiggle and Bean, one at a time, no two quite the same. Beautiful.
The Digital Downloads you print and play: Our premium games, stories and activities from the Emps, ready to download and use straight away. Print as many as you need for your home, classroom or setting. More coming soon.
Start with one Emp or collect the whole emotions family. However you begin, every product is psychologically informed and links back to our free resources written by an educational psychologist, because a plushie is lovely, but knowing what to do next is what changes our emotional worlds.
Made by Dr Nat, an educational psychologist, after twenty years of helping children find their words.
Shop Emp Plushies
Now your child can hold emotions in their hands. Designed for parents and professionals alike, these plushies are a must have addition to any home, classroom or therapy room
Currently, 5 Emps are available as Plushies.
Designed for parents and professionals alike to support emotional literacy and development. A must have addition to any home, classroom or therapy room.
Flaregrump The Anger Emp Plushie. Flaregump is super soft, colourful and made for cuddling. Can you bring out his secret soft side?
More than just a Plushie. Your children will adore his bright colour and soft texture. You’ll love that this is not just another plushie; this is a tool to engage your child with their own (and your) emotional development.
Approx 20 cm tall.
Flaregrump comes with:
• Its own personalised Emp card with: the body signals for the emotion, when it tends to visit, and simple steps to try when it gets big.
• A link to Flargrump's own page on The Emps website: fact files, support strategies and free resources, all written by an educational psychologist.
Designed by Dr Nat, an educational psychologist.
Suitable for ages 3+
Dispatched within 3 working days. UK delivery 2–3 days.
Zestle The Excitement Emp
Designed for parents and professionals alike to support emotional literacy and development. A must have addition to any home, classroom or therapy room.
Excitement is a big emotion. Zestle is the fizzing, cannot-sit-still, talking-too-fast kind that bubbles up before a birthday or a trip — wonderful, and sometimes hard to hold on to.
Children will love the rainbow fur and soft texture. You’ll love that they have a plushie that also doubles as an emotional development tool.
Zestle is approx. 18cm and comes with:
• Its own personalised Emp card including: the body signals for the emotion, when it tends to visit, and simple steps to try when it gets big.
• A link to Zestle's own page on The Emps website: fact files, support strategies and free resources, all written by an educational psychologist.
Please note that as Zestle is in a constant state of excitement, his rainbow colours are constantly changing! This means that the pattern on your Zestle may look slightly different to that in the picture.
Designed by Dr Nat, an educational psychologist.
Suitable for ages 3+
Dispatched within 3 working days. UK delivery 2–3 days.
Dripple The Sadness Emp
Designed for parents and professionals alike to support emotional literacy and development. A must have addition to any home, classroom or therapy room.
Sadness hits all of us at some point. Even children. The Dripple Pluishie allows children to own an adorable, lovable, soft Plushie that supports them to understand the emotion of sadness.
Children will love the bright blue colour, tear drop marks and soft texture. You’ll love that this is not just another Plushie. This is a way you can engage with your child about their emotional development.
Dripple measures approx. 18cm tall and comes with:
Its own personalised Emp card including: the body signals for the emotion, when it tends to visit, and simple steps to try when it gets big.
A link to Dripple's own page on The Emps website: fact files, support strategies and free resources, all written by an educational psychologist.
Created by Dr Nat. Educational Psychologist
Suitable for ages 3+
Dispatched within 3 working days. UK delivery 2–3 days
Zigzaggle The Overwhelm Emp
Designed for parents and professionals alike to support emotional literacy and development. A must have addition to any home, classroom or therapy room.
Sometimes everything is too much at once. Too loud, too bright, too many people asking questions. Zigzaggle knows that emotion. It is when a child's whole system says stop and they cannot explain why.
Children will love the bright yellow colour of Zigzaggle with the features clearly showing overwhelm and it’s soft texture. You’ll love that this is not just another Plushie. This is a fun and engaging way to talk to your children about emotional development.
Zigzgaggle is approx 18 cm high and comes with:
• Its own personalised Emp card the body signals for the emotion, when it tends to visit, and simple steps to try when it gets big.
• A link to Zigzgaggle's own page on The Emps website: fact files, support strategies and free resources, all written by an educational psychologist.
Designed by Dr Nat, an educational psychologist.
Suitable for ages 3+
Dispatched within 3 working days. UK delivery 2–3 days
Fraggle The Anxiety Emp
Designed for parents and professionals alike to support emotional literacy and development. A must have addition to any home, classroom or therapy room.
Fraggle carries worry. The what-ifs at bedtime, the tummy ache before school, the feeling that something bad might be about to happen even when nothing has.
A Fraggle plushie is a great way to engage children in understanding anxiety. What better way than to be able to see, touch and hold your own anxiety Emp.
Children will love the adorable features and soft fur. You’ll love that this is not just another plushie, you can use the Fraggle Plushie to help your child understand about anxiety.
Fraggle is approx 18 cm tall and comes with:
• Its own personalised Emp card including the body signals for the emotion, when it tends to visit, and simple steps to try when it gets big.
• A link to Fraggle's own page on The Emps website: fact files, support strategies and free resources, all written by an educational psychologist.
Designed by Dr Nat, an educational psychologist.
Suitable for ages 3+
Dispatched within 3 working days. UK delivery 2–3 days.
Buy all 5 Emp Plushies for the price of 4!
Designed for parents and professionals alike to support emotional literacy and development. A must have addition to any home, classroom or therapy room.
Each plushie is approx 18 cm high and comes with:
• Its own personalised Emp card the body signals for the emotion, when it tends to visit, and simple steps to try when it gets big.
• A link to The Emps own page on The Emps website: fact files, support strategies and free resources, all written by an educational psychologist.
Designed by Dr Nat, an educational psychologist.
Suitable for ages 3+
Dispatched within 3 working days. UK delivery 2–3 days
Designed by Dr Nat, Educational Psychologist
Shop The Emp Cards and Stickers
Designed for parents and professionals alike to support emotional literacy and development, delivering a beautiful visualisation of every Emp and emotion
A card for every emotion with regulation strategies included. Designed for professionals and parent alike.
Children often don’t say "I feel anxious." What they say is that their tummy feels funny, or they don't want to go, or sometimes nothing at all. The Emps Emotion Cards give them visuals to help describe how they feel and strategies to try.
Bright, colourful and engaging. These cards are a simple but effective emotional development tool. Psychologically informed, they are serious enough to handle any emotion and small enough to carry in your bag or pocket. Take them with you everywhere you go!
63.5 × 88.5 mm. The same size as a standard deck of cards. keep them with you wherever you go, so The Emps can help you manage emotions at home, in the classroom, therapy room or anywhere you go.
If you are a professional these cards are brilliant for whole class. small group work, one-to-one work, ELSA and nurture sessions and calm corners. They are designed to support children to explore emotions and to teach emotional literacy in a fun and engaging way. They also work as visuals in any moment where a child has a feeling and no words for it.
If you are a parent or carer these cards are brilliant for supporting emotional development at home. They are a fun and engaging way to support children to talk about and develop their understanding of emotions. Use them for bedtime chats, the after-school decompress, when big emotions show up or when needed. They fit easily in any bag and can be taken anywhere!
Every card has two sides.
On the front, the Emp and why they might visit. "Fraggle visits when worries and 'What ifs' keep coming, even when we try to make them stop." Children recognise themselves in the statements immediately.
On the back, two things:
Recognise and Reassure : the body signals for that feeling, in a child's own words. "My tummy feels fluttery. My head feels spinny. Fraggle is visiting." Naming what's happening in the body is where regulation starts.
Disarming Steps for the tricky emotions: small, doable strategies like Butterfly Breathing or Five Colour Find. And for the gentler emotions, Treasure Tips: ways to notice joy and excitement and hold onto them. Because emotional literacy isn't only about managing the trickier emotions.
Scan and go deeper. Every card carries a QR code linking straight to that Emp's page on The Emps website with fact files, further strategies, and free resources. A card in a pocket, a whole library behind it.
In the deck:
34 cards in total
31 Emp emotion cards, covering both tricky and joyful feelings
2 Instruction cards with ideas for games and ways to use the deck plus a QR code that takes you to a website guide page with even more ideas on how to use the cards
1 welcome to The Emps card
Sturdy tuck box, made to live in a bag or a drawer
63.5 × 88.5 cards, stylish matt finish.
Suitable for ages 3+
Created by Dr Nat, an educational psychologist.
Dispatched within 3 working days. UK delivery 2–3 days.
Forty-five stickers showing the full range of Emps. Designed for professionals and parents alike.
Bright, bold and instantly recognisable.
Children love them, and they collect them. But they do more than decorate a lunchbox. Because each sticker is an Emp it means something. Stick Fraggle on the calendar for a nervous day. Put Zuppy on the fridge after a brilliant one. Let a child choose the Emp that matches how they're feeling this morning.
Brilliant for:
Morning emotion check-ins, at home or in class
Emotion-spotting games and Emp Detective work
Rewarding the effort, not just the outcome
Sticking absolutely everywhere… which is also fine by the way.
In the pack:
45 stickers, all different Emps
3cm each, gloss vinyl
Suitable for ages 3+
Every Emp included has its own page on The Emps website fact files, body signals and support strategies, all written by an educational psychologist.
Designed by Dr Nat, an educational psychologist.
Dispatched within 3 working days. UK delivery 2–3 days.
Two talking games in one. Match the Emps, then talk about them.
Emp Dominoes is played like classic dominoes, but every match is a chance to chat. Each tile shows an Emp with its emotion written underneath, so children learn the words as they play. Land on a gold double and you pick a talk card.
The Friendship set explores the emotions that turn up with friends. The Learning set explores the emotions that turn up in the classroom. Together they give you 18 Emps, 90 tiles and 30 talk cards.
Made by Dr Nat, Educational and Child Psychologist, for ELSA sessions, small groups and anyone helping children put emotions into words.
What's included: Friendship set (45 tiles, 15 talk cards), Learning set (45 tiles, 15 talk cards), and an easy rules sheet. Print, laminate and play.
Licence: for use in one school or setting. Print as many copies as you need there.
Digital Downloads
Friendships bring big emotions. Some feel lovely, and some feel hard to say out loud.
This set brings together nine Emps children meet with friends. Flaregrump (Anger), Fraggle (Anxiety), Soloo (Loneliness), Minezo (Envy), Grumbogreen (Jealousy), Tanglekind (Belonging), Zuppy (Joy), Toost (Trust) and Snugglemelt (Love).
Match the tiles, land on a gold double, and pick a talk card, E.g.: "Toost (Trust) grows when a friend keeps a promise. What else helps Toost grow?"
It's a gentle way into conversations about falling out, feeling left out, and what makes a good friend.
What's included: 45 tiles, 15 talk cards and an easy rules sheet. Print, laminate and play.
Licence: for use in one school or setting. Print as many copies as you need there.
We all get angry sometimes. Even trainee detectives.
Pip wants a real detective badge more than anything in the whole world. One rainy Tuesday, he builds his tallest tower ever. Then Maya squeezes past. CRASH.
Hot tummy. Red cheeks. Tight hands. Pip stomps, throws his notebook, and then feels awful. I must be a naughty puppet.
But Pip isn't naughty at all. That was Flaregrump visiting.
Flaregrump is the Agency's bodyguard. He turns up when things feel unfair, and he's trying to help. Sometimes he just grows too big, too fast. He isn't a baddie. Pip and Flaregrump both need a little help learning what to do.
That's where your detectives come in.
This is the first case in The Flaregrump Files, our anger range from The Emp Detective Agency. It gives children the words for the hot volcano feeling, shows them where it lives in the body, and separates the feeling from the child. Angry isn't who you are. It's an Emp that visits.
It ends with a question for the children: what could Pip do when the hot volcano feeling comes? That's where the real conversation starts
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Created by Dr Nat, an Educational and Child Psychologist with 25 years in education. It draws on emotion coaching, name it to tame it, and narrative approaches that help children talk about big feelings without shame.
Made for home, classroom or therapy room.
What's included
Pip and the Volcano Tummy: a two-page full-colour comic story (PDF)
Questions for teachers and parents to explore the story together
Print at home or in school, as many copies as you need for your own class or family
Best for: Reception and KS1 (ages 4–7), small groups, ELSA sessions and bedtime chats.
This is a digital download. Nothing will be posted to you.
© 2026 The Emp Emotions Characters Ltd. All rights reserved. The Emps® and The Emp Detective Agency are trademarks of The Emp Emotions Characters Ltd.
Learning is full of emotions. Getting stuck, getting it wrong, getting there in the end.
This set brings together nine Emps children meet in the classroom. Wimble (Curiosity), Muddle (Confusion), Snixx (Frustration), Blushka (Embarrassment), Disapuff (Disappointment), Zigzaggle (Overwhelm), Bravoop (Confidence), Zuppy (Joy) and Fraggle (Anxiety).
Match the tiles, land on a gold double, and pick a talk card. "Muddle (Confusion) turns up when things don't make sense. What could you do next?"
It helps children notice that tricky emotions are part of learning, and talk about what helps them keep going.
What's included: 45 tiles, 15 talk cards and an easy rules sheet. Print, laminate and play.
Licence: for use in one school or setting. Print as many copies as you need there.
Everyone gets angry. And anger has a job to do.
The Emp Detective Agency has cracked hundreds of cases. This morning, a brand-new file lands on Marlow's desk. It's marked FLAREGRUMP.
The hot face. The shouting. The slammed doors. Most people think Flaregrump is a troublemaker. Marlow has news for his new unit: he's something else entirely.
Flaregrump is a bodyguard. When something feels unfair, when someone might hurt you, or when a rule gets broken, he leaps in to defend you. He's loyal. He's brave. He cares.
So what's the problem? Sometimes he's so keen to protect you that he takes over. Your voice. Your hands. Your whole body. Thinking clearly gets harder, and it can feel as though there's only one choice.
This story doesn't ask children to get rid of anger. It asks them to understand it. Anger is a visitor. It visits you. It isn't who you are.
This is the first lesson in The Flaregrump Files, our KS2 anger programme from The Emp Detective Agency. Marlow gives each detective a notebook, a badge, a magnifying glass and a case folder. Over the series they learn to spot Flaregrump arriving, what sets him off, how he changes their bodies and thoughts, and the biggest secret of all: what he's really trying to protect.
Created by Dr Nat, an Educational and Child Psychologist with 25 years in education. It draws on narrative approaches, emotion coaching and current emotion science, so children can talk about anger without shame and learn what to do with it.
Made for the classroom, small groups, ELSA sessions and home.
What's included
The Bodyguard's File: a three-page full-colour comic story (PDF)
Discussion questions for teachers and parents
Print as many copies as you need for your own class or family
Best for: KS2, Years 3 to 6, and a good fit for Year 7 too.
This is a digital download. Nothing will be posted to you.
© 2026 The Emp Emotions Characters Ltd. All rights reserved. The Emps® and The Emp Detective Agency are trademarks of The Emp Emotions Characters Ltd.
The Emps x Squiggle and Bean!
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Every beautifully crocheted Emp is made by hand by Katie at Squiggle and Bean, using her own original patterns. Each one is CE tested and safe from newborn, so they're made to be loved rather than kept on a shelf. They have the added benefit of being very sensory appealing to little hands too!
You can see more of Katie's work over at squiggleandbean.co.uk.
With this collection you can order any Emp from our full Emp gallery.
These are sold by Squiggle and Bean. But we are delighted to be able to offer them here on Katie's behalf, and we handle the ordering and the postage so you only need to talk to one person.
Each Emp is currently priced at £30.
How to order:
Because each Emp is crocheted to order, there's no buy-now button and we don't want to take your money before Katie has confirmed she can make it.
Just get in touch and tell us which Emp or Emps you'd like. We'll come back to you with your lead time and an invoice for payment.
The usual lead time is around four weeks from confirmed order to completion, but we'll give you a proper estimate once Katie has seen your order.
Ordering for a class or a setting?
Tell us what you need and roughly when you need it, and we'll come back with a quote and a single invoice. Which is often helpful if you're going through a school or nursery finance system.
Get in touch to order: info@the-emps.com or click the button below.
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Snugglemelt - Love
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Dripple - Sadness
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Drim - Shame
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Muddle- Confusion
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Flaregrump - Anger
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Faggle - Anxiety
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Zextle - Excitement
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Zigzaggle - Overwhelm
