Crafts

1. Bunch of Feelings
   Have each of your children make feeling faces (happy, sad, scared, angry, surprised) on small purple circles. Put these together in the shape of a bunch of grapes on a bulletin board with the title "A Bunch of Feelings"
2. Feelings Book
   Make several pages with just a circle on them.  Have the children paste faces on each circle.  Sad, Happy, Angry.  Fasten together with yarn.

3.   Feelings Collage

      Cut out people from magazines that are showing different emotions. Have them separate these based on their emotions and then make a collage with different sides of the paper representing different emotions.

4.   Feelings Puppets
Cut out 4 circles using construction paper.  Draw different feelings faces on the circles.  Attach Popsicle sticks to the circles and let your children use them as feelings puppets.

5. Playdough Happy faces
   Make happy faces out of playdough that can be baked (or dried) and painted. You only need to cut out a circle and decorate. Make into magnets.
6. Sad and Happy Puppet
   Have the children make a paper plate puppet with a happy face on one side and a sad face on the other. Tell a story or read sentences about things that would make a person feel happy or sad.

7.   Smile Craft
Give the children big yellow circles of construction paper. Let them use glitter, markers, stickers, etc. to decorate their smiley face...then punch holes in the circle, thread with yarn, and then let them wear their smiley face necklaces!

8.   Another Smile Craft
Paper plates with buttons for eyes and nose, yarn for hair and POPCORN for smiles! Looks like lots of teeth.

9.   Big Smile
We took teeth shapes and had our precious ones paint them with white paint using old toothbrushes. Then after they had dried we took a smile shape and had the child trace the shape on large red construction board. They cut out their teeth, cut out the center of the smile and glued the teeth to the back side of the smile...so then we had a terrific red toothy smile! They parents got a big kick out of these. The skills are tracing, cutting, gluing and painting with different utensils.

10.  Music Painting

      Give your children a blank piece of paper. Have them paint at the speed and feeling of different kinds of music you play (classical, country, rock, etc). This is a great way to illustrate how music makes us feel different.

Activities

1.        Mirror Anatomy
They enjoy practicing different facial expressions looking in a mirror.
Observing how they look when they have different feelings inside helps
children to understand the Body Language of others.

2.       Simon Says "Feelings"
Play Simon says with the children substituting feeling phrases for the usual directions. For example, say: "Simon says, look happy.” In between commands you can ask them questions about those feelings, such as "What makes you feel happy?

3.       Make faces like me
Make different faces and have the children copy your faces.

4.       Feely Faces
Make enough happy, sad, and mad faces for the children in your class. When doing circle, you can ask them how they are feeling that day. They would take the appropriate face.

5.       Flannel board activity
Cut out several circles to represent faces and draw on different emotions - happy, sad, scared, angry, sleepy, and surprised. Put up first face (ex. Happy) and say, happy face, happy face, what do you see? I see a ______ face looking at me. Put up next face and continue.

6.       Identifying Emotions
Talk about the different feelings we have. For example, being happy, sad, angry, surprised.

7.       Expressions
Show pictures of children showing different expressions (laughing, surprised, mad, crying, smiling, etc.) Ask the children how these children are feeling?

8.       Emotions Sort
Cut out people showing many different emotions from magazines. Let your children sort them based on the emotions.

9.       Match the Emotions
Make two copies of ten different faces with emotions: happy, sad, worried, and scared (huge mouth in a horse shoe shape), loving (kissing face), stressed (big eyes and a wormy line for a mouth), mad, silly, tired (drooping eyelids with open mouth), Surprised (big eyes, big open mouth). Cut these out and attach one copy of each face into a folder. Let your children try to match the emotions.

10.    Emotion Cards
Create emotion cards (stick person face drawing on paper, small paper plates, or juice can bottoms) read different situations to your children and have them tell you what emotion card goes with what situation.

Songs

1.  If you’re Happy and You Know It
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.

Angry-Stomp your Feet

Tired-Yawn

Hungry-Rub your Tummy

2.  Feelings Spider
Happy Little spider
Climbed up the water spout;
Down came the rain
And washed poor Happy out;
Out came the sun
And dried up all the rain;
And the Happy Little spider
Climbed up the spout again.

Note: Replace Happy with other emotions: Sad, giggly, shy, afraid. Then have your children act out the emotions.

3.  I Have Many Types of Feelings

Tune of: "Mary Had a Little Lamb"

I have many types of feelings,

Types of feelings, types of feelings,
I have many types of feelings,
Happy ones or sad ones.
Replace other feelings in the above line:
e.g. silly, angry, glad, Afraid.

4.  Smiles

If you chance to meet a frown,
Do not let it stay.
Quickly turn it upside down
And Smile that frown away.

No one likes a frowning face.
Change it for a smile.
Make the world a better place
By smiling all the while.

5.  Feelings song
(Tune: Twinkle, twinkle)
I have feelings, you do too
Let's all sing about a few.
I am happy, I am sad;
I get scared, I get mad.
I am proud of being me.
That's a feeling too, you see.
I have feelings, you do too.
We just sang about a few.

Stories

1.  I was so Mad

This story is about a little boy who wants to do many different activities but family members keep telling him no.  This makes him really mad.  At the end his friends ask him to come and play and his mom says it’s okay.  That makes him happy.

2.  I’m Sorry

Tigger learns that saying sorry is a wonderful thing to do.  When you hurt a friend’s feelings, there’s just one thing to do, say you’re sorry and mean it.  Then you’ll feel good to. Saying your sorry is the right thing to do.

3.  Franklin is Bossy

Franklin had lots of friends and one best friend Bear.  Bear and Franklin got into fight because Bear didn’t wanted to play with Franklin anymore because he kept bossing everyone around. He would always pick the games, and always win.  His friends were getting mad and didn’t want to play with him anymore. Franklin became sad and played by himself for a day. He became bored and went to find his Friend Bear to apologize.  Just when Franklin started being bossy again his friends interrupted him.  Franklin then realized his friends were right.  Then they were all happy and had fun playing together.

4.  Franklin’s Bad Day

Franklin woke up grouch one morning.  Everything was going bad for him that day.  He couldn’t find his marbles, not enough snow to go sledding, couldn’t skate because the pond wasn’t frozen.   He was getting angry at his friends and his parents.  He knocked his blocks and then started to cry.  His father came up and asked what was wrong.  His father then said you can build another tower of blocks.  I built those with Beaver.  Beaver had moved away and Franklin was feeling sad.  His mother said that they could still be friends by talking on the phone or writing each other.  So Franklin decided to make a scrapbook for beaver and include several self addressed envelopes and told beaver to write him.  That made Franklin feel better.

5.  My Many Colored days

This book uses a colors and animals to describe different feelings and moods we may have.  “Some days are yellow, some days are blue, on different days, I’m different too.”  “You’d be surprised how many ways I change on different colored days.”

6.  Sam’s Scary Night

Sam’s afraid of the dark.  He thinks he sees scary animals, monsters and aliens, too!  Help Sam find out what’s really in the dark in this funny pop-up story.  He finds out that it’s only his toys, clothes, plants and his parents.  He feels scared in the dark but then realizes things are seen different in the dark.

7.  Wibbly Pig is Happy

Wibbly pig is feeling happy; he’s busy, hungry and then gets surprised. He then feels upset and sad. Wibbly pig needs a hug but instead gets a lick from his dog.  He feels happy again.

8.  Franklin in the Dark

Franklin is afraid of small dark places.  That is probable because he lives in a shell.  His mother tried helping by telling him there’s nothing to be afraid of.  But he insisted that there were slippery, creepy things and monsters that lived in his shell.  He went for a walk and met up with different animals that were afraid of things but they couldn’t help Franklin.  He walked back home.  His mother say’s to him I was so afraid you were lost.  You are afraid of something; I didn’t think mothers were afraid of anything.  His mother gives him supper and a big hug and says it’s time for bed.  Franklin knew what he had to do.  He crawled inside his shell and gave a brave “GOOD NIGHT!”  When no one was looking he turned on his night light.

9.  Care Bears

Care bears share what makes them feel happy like playing outside, daydreaming, flying a kite. What makes you happy?

10. The Teddy Bears Daring Rescue

The bears are playing happily when one of there friends get stuck in a tree.   The little bear is frightened.  They rescue there friend.  Everyone is safe and happy again.  Then the bear that rescued his friend gets got up in the tree. OOPS!