Children’s Activity: Where are your feelings?
Identifying that our feelings are fluid, and ever moving supports children to understand that they do not need to always feel ‘happy’. For so many children and adults, there is a pressure to always be ‘happy’, when in reality our feelings move continually throughout the day.
Learning to differentiate between different feelings is an important part of emotional literacy. If we cannot identify those subtle differences, we can find it very difficult to verbalise and respond to them.
Get started:
Next steps:
- Download it here
- Collect some pens
- Talk about a feeling the child is experiencing
- Take time to consider each step
- What can we learn about the feeling?
- Perhaps, you could compare different feelings and make a scrap book of feelings?
- Can you extend it and identify a name for the feeling?
- Can you extend it further and identify one step that can be taken to meet the need?
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