Zedie and Zoola’s Playtime Cards: 25 Games to Lift Communication Barriers from the Playground

Playtime is essential for children’s wellbeing and provides key opportunities to make friends.

This pack contains 25 beautifully illustrated cards containing ideas for fun playground games that draw from Zedie & Zoola’s Playful Universe. They are designed to be used alongside:



Zedie & Zoola Light Up the Night – a colourful storybook, which draws on themes relating to friendships, neurodiversity, participation, and advocacy.

Zedie & Zoola’s Playful Universe – an evidence-based guide offering additional advice for adults to use the cards effectively, with helpful contextual information relating to child development, communication differences, and play, to assist in making playtimes more accessible.The cards and storybook explore the topic of communication differences through engaging characters and games, and the accompanying guide offers additional advice for adults to use the cards effectively, with helpful contextual information to assist in making playtimes more accessible.

Zedie and Zoola’s Playtime Cards are suitable for use at both school and at home by children aged 6-9. They are an essential resource for anyone looking for new ways to foster an inclusive environment to help children with different communication styles engage and play with their peers.

Intended for use in educational settings and/or therapy contexts under the supervision of an adult. This is not a toy.