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To Do: Tell a story that involves big emotions and create a drawing to represent it.
Time: 15 minutes
Materials: Paper, pens, pencils
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Children love stories rooted in reality. Especially stories in which they play a leading role! Today, practice identifying and coping with emotions by telling stories about things that happened in the past.
To do this activity, first pick one story to tell. Or, ask your child to tell a story of when he or she felt sad or happy.
Next, have a blank sheet of paper ready. As you tell the story, or afterwards, try to draw how you felt. It doesn’t have to be just sad or smiley faces. It can be an abstract representations!
Helping your child label the feelings from a past experience will help them in the future when they feel the same way. Through repetition and patience, your child will begin to learn what it means to feel excited or sad.
After all, emotions aren’t bad or good, they just are!
Keep a feelings notebook ready if you enjoy doing this activity together. Make it a routine.
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