This project is a token-and-tube based emotion indicator, designed to help kids express how they feel — without needing to talk about it.
It’s made for boarding schools or group homes where children live under supervision and may find it hard to share their emotions verbally.
Concept
The system uses three color-coded tubes:
🟢 Green – Happy
🟡 Yellow – Neutral
🟠 Orange – Angry / Sad
Each child receives a few tokens each day and drops one in the tube that matches their current mood.
This gives supervisors a quick, visual way to understand how the group is feeling — especially useful during shift changes, when new supervisors take over.
Features
- 3 tubes (Green, Yellow, Orange)
- Wall-mountable system
- Mounting distance: approximately 24 cm between the top of the bottom wall mount and the bottom of the top wall mount
- Tubes sit on the bottom mount and click into place on the top mount — secure but easy to remove for emptying
- Each tube supports up to 100 tokens
- Includes 100 tokens total (print the 25-token plate 4x)
- Smileys can be glued in place on the circles of the top mount
- No red color used – red can be perceived as a stress color (in the photo, one tube is still red; it’s being replaced with orange)
- Optional logo or text engraving (on top mount and/or tokens)
- Ideal for groups of around 20 kids (each gets 5 tokens per day)
The system helps supervisors adapt plans, routines, or activities based on the group’s overall mood and atmosphere.
Printing Details
- Total print time: ~28 hours for the complete set
- Only the smileys are multicolor prints by default
- If you want to include a logo or text on the top mount or tokens, those parts can also be printed in multicolor (if help is needed with adding logo to the top part. message me with an svg file linked and i will try to help you as soon as i can)
- Print top and bottom wall mounts separately
- Add your school or organization logo to personalize the design
Story Behind the Design
This idea came from my brother-in-law, who works with kids in a boarding school.
He wanted a simple, tangible way for children to express emotions — so I turned his idea into a real, 3D-printable system.
Gasemans
