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  • Feelings Books and Activities (with video links)

    Glad Monster Sad Monster 

    By Ed Emberley & Anne Miranda 

    Little Brown and Company, 1997 

    Glad Monster Sad Monster is a book about feelings with fun monster masks that children can try on and talk about times when they felt glad, sad, loving, worried, silly, angry and scared—just like the monsters! Each monster is a different color to represent specific emotions. For example, the yellow monster is glad when he gets to open presents, play ball, slurp ice cream and dance with his friend! (Ages 2-5) 

    Watch video reading of the book: 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VRbn4bIYgI

    Examples of activities that can be used while reading Glad Monster Sad Monster :

    • While reading/watching the story, pause and ask children if they feel the same way the monsters do. For example, do they feel glad when they get to play ball like the yellow monster? Ask what other kinds of things make them feel glad. Do they think the same kinds of things that make them feel glad would also make yellow monster feel glad? 
    • Have children make glad monster/sad monster stick puppets. Give each child 2 blank paper circles (one yellow/one blue). Ask them to draw a glad monster face on the yellow circle and a sad monster face on the blue circle. Help them glue their monster faces back to back with a popsicle stick in the middle. Talk about or role play different situations and ask children to hold up their glad monster or sad monster puppet according to how they think the monster would feel. For example, explain that Purple Monster was playing with his favorite truck when Red Monster came and took it away because he wanted to play with it. Ask how they think that would make Purple Monster feel. Why? Have children think of other things that Red Monster could try if he wants to play with Purple Monster’s truck. 

     

  • Emotions/Feelings Activities

     

    1. Look in the mirror and make different feeling faces.

    2. Feelings charades - Make a feeling face and have someone guess what it is.

    3. Make feeling faces out of playdoh

    4. Draw feeling faces on paper or paper plates. 

    5. Read a story and identify the feelings of the characters on each page. 

     

    *In addition to any of these activities, you can ask your child when they felt that way.

       -What makes you happy? sad? mad? scared? surprised? frustrated?