Colour My Mood

This cute bedside book gives kids and young teens a safe space to record their feelings and monitor their moods every day in a fun and rewarding way. Each night before sleep, they simply colour in the relevant day's illustration and see it build over the month to create an accurate record of their changing emotional state.

Therapists acknowledge that keeping a record of moods and emotions can help to identify triggers and see patterns, helping to develop emotional intelligence and ultimately control. Mood-tracking has become a much-loved activity for Bullet Journalling and even apps—this kid-friendly, mindful, analogue approach will help them find balance, realising that there are good days and bad days and that's OK.

Filled with a range of adorable graphics that are different every month, there's space to quickly record emotions, allowing comparisons day by day, month by month, year by year for a five-year period. If your young person has tried and failed to keep a diary or journal, this easy activity book offers a much more manageable and fun space to record what matters, giving them—and you—the insight into how they are really feeling.

Illustrator Olive Yong (creator of the wildly popular Bichi Mao comic) has created exclusive art for this mood tracker that they will love to bring to life with their own colourful moods.

Author: Olive Yong is a self-taught artist from Malaysia and the creator of the popular Instagram @bichi.mao, which has over 275,000 followers. Part of the charm of her artwork is in its simplicity. Her motivation for drawing is to spread positive energy to people in a funny and cute way.