Dough Board - How Are You Feeling?

Playdate Baseboard – How Are You Feeling?

Create faces. Explore feelings. Build emotional understanding.

The Playdate “How Are You Feeling?” Baseboard offers a hands-on, creative way for children to explore emotions through play. Featuring a face outline on the board, it invites children to use playdough to create different facial expressions—turning feelings into something they can see, shape, and talk about. By adding dough to form eyes, mouths, eyebrows, and expressions, children can experiment with how emotions look and change. This tactile approach supports emotional awareness and gives children a safe, non-verbal way to express how they’re feeling when words are hard to find. 

Why this baseboard supports emotional learning and wellbeing:

Builds emotional awareness: Helps children identify, recognise, and name emotions

Encourages emotional expression: Use dough to visually communicate feelings 

Supports self-regulation: Understanding emotions is the first step to managing them

Develops empathy & social skills: Learn how different expressions reflect different feelings

Strengthens fine motor skills: Rolling, shaping, and placing dough builds hand strength

Calming, mindful play: Sensory interaction encourages focus and emotional balance

Perfect for use with playdough, clay, or other sensory materials, this baseboard is ideal for homes, classrooms, therapy settings, and wellbeing spaces.

The Playdate Baseboard – How Are You Feeling? turns playdough into a powerful emotional learning tool—helping children create, explore, and understand feelings through play.