How do we experience feelings, both physically and emotionally?

Instructions:

1. Keep the feelings and faces cards handy to show during the activity.

2. Let’s make face puzzles! You can use paper/cut out waste, arts and crafts materials or natural materials (leaves, sticks, etc.)

3. Help the child decide which emotion/s they want to create today or draw emotional faces.

4. Emphasize facial features visible in each emotion e.g.: eyebrows, eyes, hands and arms.

5. Cut the faces in half.

6. Mix the faces and build your puzzles!

7. Express verbal common statements used for each emotion:

• Happy: yay! Yes! Laughter.

• Sad: oh no! I don’t like this. Crying

• Angry: Hey! Stop! I don’t like it. Crying

• Scared: I don’t wanna do it. Crying

• Ashamed: sorry

InterACTions:

1. Where do you feel the emotion in your body?

2. How does your face feel when ?

3. When have you felt ?

4. Why were you feeling that way?

5. When have you seen a friend ?

6. How do you know they were feeling that way?

7. Why do you think they were feeling that way?