Blob School - Book

The Blobs are versatile resources enabling adults and children in groups or 1-1 sessions to develop self-management skills and explore their feelings and reactions to situations that occur, through choice or spontaneously. There are a wide variety of card topics and books to guide facilitators that can be used as both educational and therapeutic tools to begin the process of change and healing.

This school-focused book features 47 activities featuring Blobs covering key aspects of pupil life. Topics include assembly, bullying, changes, choir, classroom, working with computers, disco, exams, first day, friendships, groupwork, holidays, home time, lessons, meals, parents evenings, playground, prayer, studying etc.

These can be used to prompt class or group discussion or used in 1-1 sessions exploring feelings and highlighting potential problems that may require support or guidance. Photocopiable.

Blobs are clear and simple black and white line illustrations with no words based on feelings and body language. Pictures can be used to prompt discussion or simply pointed at to convey these have struck a chord.

Different from other tools, Blobs are neither male nor female, young nor old and devoid of culture. They don't tell us what we ought to do, should or shouldn't do, or depict a problem to be solved or a message to be agreed upon, they just show visually the way people may feel.

Blobs have been used for over twenty years with small or large groups, 1-1 individuals, by different professions and are transferrable to both learning and therapy settings.

We have many different Blob card sets as well as books to guide facilitators about the wide variety of ways they can be used for different client groups and different needs:

Cards:

• Teenage Life
• Feelings (56485)
• Emotions (56486)
• Bereavement (56487)
• Behaviour (56488)
• Family (56489)
• Anger (56484)

Books:

• The Blobs Training Manual (56478)
• The Blob Anger Book (56483)
• The Big Book of Blob Feelings (56480)

"Improving children's' emotional wellbeing is vital to enabling them to access learning and being able to recognise and talk about feeling is an important part of this. The Blob series provide a vehicle for this and as school is the place where most children will be supported in this it seems an obvious title to add to the series. I feel it would be particularly useful for individual children with particular difficulties with communication or social skills, or as part of a PSHE program."
Jo Clayton, SENCo

"I would see teachers and teaching assistants using the visual images to encourage pupils to talk about their feelings. They could also be used to help pupils overcome fears around the topics listed. They could support in dealing with inappropriate behaviour by pupils who find it difficult to control anger and conform to school boundaries."
Nicola Gwilym, School Mentor