Kids Helpline: Helping Kids Identify and Express Feelings

How does it feel when you don't get your favorite toy? Explore emotion words with an exercise that provides pictures and descriptions of people in different situations. Kids choose from a word bank to fill in the blanks for people who...

Fill in the blanks for ten emotion words with an educational worksheet. After kids examine each picture of a person experiencing a feeling, they define the emotion and fill in the missing vowels to complete the word.

What does it look like when someone is feeling sad, worried, hungry, or happy? These are some of the emotions that your youngsters will identify in a simple matching activity.

Encourage self-awareness with a lesson plan that challenges scholars to identify feelings—happy, sad, mad, and scared. Using a feelings thermometer, similar to that of a bar graph, pupils discuss how they would feel in specific scenarios...

Even subtle differences in facial expressions can give us a glimpse into how others are feeling. Through this visual matching activity, youngsters work to correctly connect 16 feelings to their appropriate facial expressions.

When you are feeling thirsty, you should...go to bed? Using common phrases and clip art images, youngsters practice matching feelings to what their appropriate responses should be. 

Two puppets open a discussion about comfrotable and uncomfortable touches. Scholars add to the discussion information they remember from a previous instructional activity, then delve deep into three problem-solving safety rules, and...

A big part of learning how to be emotionally healthy is learning how to identify and express your emotions. The book Today I Feel Silly is the inspiration for a wonderful activity plan that is intended to teach young children how to be...

Meant to be used with the Dealing With Feelings video from the You Can Choose series, this lesson can also be adapted for use without this resource. This plan is aimed at showing young learners how to appropriately deal with their...

Feelings can be hard to understand and express. The "Learn About Feelings" dance sequence helps students make sense of their emotions by tuning into their bodies and understanding what each emotion feels like. With the supplementary...