Plushy Feely Corp

Based in San Rafael, California, Plushy Feely Corp. offers customers a full line of small Kimochis character pillows. Featured by Parenting Magazine as a "buzzworthy toy," each Kimochis pillow has a printed feeling on one side and a facial expression that matches the word on the other. Kimochis characters such as Bug, Huggtopus, and Clover are each packaged as a three feelings set, and additionally come with a Kimochis Feel Guide.

Plushy Feely Corp.'s team of parents, educators, animators, and marketing veterans has designed its products as a way of encouraging children to communicate confidently through puppetry and play. In particular, the feelings they represent enable children to gain awareness of their emotions and how to manage them. Feelings include happy, curious, cranky, silly, brave, overbearing, moody, sad, and fearful.

More than simply a children's product, Kimochis products also provide an ideal means of child-parent interaction and have educational uses in the classroom setting. Parents and teachers alike find Kimochis an excellent device for role-playing real life situations in a comfortable and enjoyable way. The Plushy Feely Corp. website at www.kimochis.com offers a number of communication skills building tips appropriate for its different characters and the feelings they represent.

The memorable Kimochis characters are complemented by entertaining and informative stories designed to spur conversation and create connections. In addition, online connectivity tools allow people to participate in shared discussions with others in the learning-focused Kimochis World. Plushy Feely Corp.'s "toys with feelings inside" have received a number of industry plaudits, including the selection as one of Dr. Toy's 100 Best Products of 2010, and Instructors Magazine's Teacher's Pick for its "Best of 2010."