About Pip’s Kit

What is it?

Pip’s Kit helps children who have a parent or carer with an incurable illness by encouraging them to talk about how they feel, giving them coping skills and supporting their families to come together during one of their most challenging times.

What you will find?

• Family activities 

• Ways to work with worries

• Different ways of coping

• Help with school life and friends

• Tools to learn about emotions and feelings

• Understanding about hospitals and hospices

• Understanding about grief

• Help with communicating

• Ideas to make memories

Who is Pip?

Pip is a friendly creature who likes to hold onto, and listen to, children’s worries and fears. Pip loves both being cuddled AND thrown across the room, and is absolutely OK with being whispered to AND shouted at.

 This means when a child is feeling sad, or happy, or frightened Pip can be squeezed, and when a child is feeling angry, or frustrated Pip can be thrown against the wall.

You can make yourself a cuddly Pip or buy one. We recommend a Big Pip for a child, and a mini Pip for the parent. Or print Pip’s image out and stick it on some cardboard.

If you would like a Portuguese PDF version of Pip’s Kit, please contact us.