Feelings and Emotions - United Way of Central Florida
Materials needed:
- Paper and pencil
- Mirror
- Optional: Plastic Easter eggs, markers paper plates
Instructions:
- Take your child somewhere they can look in a mirror. Let them know that you will be talking about feelings and emotions today.
- Ask them: Do you know what feelings are?
- Discuss and share some examples while modeling what the expression for each feeling/emotion may be.
- Allow your child the opportunity to make these faces as well. Encourage them to come up with more.
- Talk about these emotions. Remember to tell your child that it IS okay to feel these different ways at different times.
- Put a plan in place. Ask your child questions to encourage them to come up with their own plan on how they will react/respond to their feelings.
- What can we do when we feel _____?
- Sad
- Happy
- Frustrated – an example could be to try some yoga and deep breathing to calm yourself down.
- Scared
- Lonely
- Tired
- Confused
- Surprised
- And any others you can come up with together…
Extension:
- You may still have some leftover plastic eggs from Easter. Use these to create Emotion Eggs.
- Draw different emotions onto the eggs. If they can break into two separate pieces, you can mix-match them and make crazy expressions.
- Use a paper plate to create an expression mask. Allow your child to be creative and chose an expression to create.
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