Express Your Feelings Sensory Bottles are a calming social emotional learning tool designed to help children recognise, understand and talk about emotions. This set includes two sensory bottles representing opposite feelings - Calm and Overwhelmed - helping children explore emotional awareness through visual sensory play. These bottles are perfect for expanding social emotional learning in a fun and engaging way and are a valuable addition to our range of sensory toys.

With colourful designs, expressive faces and moving sensory contents, these emotion bottles provide a hands-on way for children to identify feelings, practise self-regulation and develop emotional vocabulary at home, school or in therapy settings. These bottles are securely sealed and are popular with children who benefit from sensory tools to support calm, focus and emotional exploration.

⭐ At a Glance

✔ Set of 2 emotions sensory bottles
✔ Includes Calm and Overwhelmed feelings bottles
✔ Supports emotional recognition and expression
✔ Encourages social emotional learning
✔ Great for calm corners and sensory toolkits
✔ Suitable for home, school and therapy use
✔ Suitable for ages 3+

Meet the Calm and Overwhelmed bottles, each with its own unique facial expression and colour, and filled with materials that mimic the motion of the feeling inside. These bottles are designed to help children recognise and express their emotions better.

Whether used at home, in the classroom, or on the go, these bottles are securely sealed and are ideal for children with autism or those who benefit from sensory tools to calm down and manage their emotions. Holding the bottles and watching the motion will give children a quiet, hands-on way to identify and manage their feelings. Watching the motion can also help children to calm down and focus.

Looking for more ways to explore emotions? Our Express Your Feelings Sensory Bottles Set includes four different emotions to help children explore feelings through sensory play.

Why Families Love Emotions Sensory Bottles

Helping children understand emotions can sometimes be challenging. These sensory bottles provide a simple visual way to explore feelings by connecting facial expressions, colours and movement with different emotional states.

Children can hold, shake, tilt and observe the bottles while discussing how each feeling might look or feel. This makes them a useful resource for encouraging conversations about emotions and developing self-awareness.

Sensory Benefits & Emotional Regulation Support

Emotions sensory bottles combine visual sensory input with emotional learning, making them a valuable resource for children who benefit from structured sensory activities.

They can encourage:

✔ Recognition of different emotions
✔ Emotional vocabulary
✔ Communication about feelings
✔ Visual tracking skills
✔ Calm sensory exploration
✔ Self-regulation strategies

They are particularly useful as part of a calm corner, sensory toolkit or emotional regulation routine. These calm down bottles for children provide a simple visual activity to encourage reflection and emotional awareness.

Looking for more tools to support calm and emotional regulation? Try our Cool Down Sensory Cubes Fidget Set, designed to provide structured sensory activities through squeezing, spinning, solving and tactile play.

Ways to Use Feelings Sensory Bottles

These emotion bottles can be used for:

✔ Talking about feelings at home
✔ Classroom emotional check-ins
✔ Calm-down areas
✔ Sensory breaks
✔ Therapy sessions
✔ Supporting children who find emotions difficult to express

✔ Classroom emotional regulation activities

Express your Emotions Sensory Bottles Product Information

• Each sensory bottle measures approx.: 11cm x 4.5cm.
• Sensory bottles supplied - 1 calm and 1 overwhelmed.

Express your Feelings Sensory Bottles

Suitable for children aged 3+ years

Discover more sensory activities in our guide to Sensory Play Ideas for Children, with ideas to support focus, exploration and emotional wellbeing through play.

FAQ's

What are emotions sensory bottles?

Emotions sensory bottles are visual sensory tools designed to help children explore feelings and recognise different emotional states through colours, expressions and movement.

What emotions are included in this set?

The set includes two bottles representing Calm and Overwhelmed emotions, helping children compare and discuss different feelings.

How can sensory bottles help children with emotions?

Sensory bottles provide a visual and hands-on way for children to explore feelings, practise emotional awareness and develop strategies for managing big emotions.

Are emotions sensory bottles suitable for autism?

Many children with autism or additional sensory needs benefit from visual supports and sensory tools. These bottles can be used as part of a wider sensory toolkit to encourage emotional understanding and regulation.

Where can emotions sensory bottles be used?

They are suitable for use at home, in classrooms, calm corners, therapy environments and sensory spaces.