Using these books, and the coloring are wonderful ways of teaching emotional intelligence to kids, and normalising big feelings. It also helps children to understand WHAT the feeling is that they are experiencing. We can use the feeling coloring sheets to start a conversation with our kids about what some of these emotions feel like. Sometimes putting a name to the feelings inside our body are incredibly empowering to kids. It can help to make some of these emotions less scary, and more easy for our children to handle.
We have an absolute treat for you today thanks to the amazing Chris Dixon, and his wonderful idea for a book to help kids with understanding and visualising their feelings and emotions. His book, That’s OK has been released as a coloring book, and we have a FREE version of it to give to you all today. Do check the That’s OK site out too. Chris’ books are available as eBooks, and hardcover as well as softcover. Why not enter our giveaway for a chance to win the books, and some amazing Learning Resources toys to help kids with their feelings?
To pack a little more punch (!) with anything you are doing around emotions, why not get the Inside Out film too. This is also a great way to get kids talking – watch the film and do a spot of coloring afterwards?
To download the full eBook, scroll down to the red button at the end of this article. And we know its a long way, but we’d like you to see what is in the book, and we also need to make a little money as a social business too. 😂
What is included in the feeling coloring pages, That’s OK book?
Before we dive into this – you might like to sign up for our kids mental health series too, which has even more resources for mental health in it – check it out here – we really do love supporting children to understand more about their mental wellbeing:
Remember to check out the real-life That’s OK books from Chris after taking a look at these. You can’t beat having one for the library for the kids at school, or on the book shelves at home.
The first few pages of the book give a little introduction into what the feelings coloring book contains, and what it is all about.
Our children need to know that it is OK to feel, but it is also OK not to. It goes beyond the saying Its OK to not be OK which so many of us now know. It is also OK to feel, or indeed, to not have feelings too!
We can feel positive big feelings, as well as negative ones. And this coloring book covers lots of different emotions going from A-Z (well S!), so that children understand what it happening in there bodies. From, Anger, though to excitement, and surprise, Chris has tried to help children to understand what we might do when we experience these emotions, as well as how we might feel.
His lovely, enchanting monsters, perfect for Halloween and beyond, help give form to some of these feelings for our children too.
Feel free to upload the images that you make to Chris’ pages, and do copy @kiddycharts into anything you do share so we can see everything that you are making.
Angry
Anger always makes us think of the colour red – how about asking the kids what color anger is to them? Sometimes it helps to do this.
You could perhaps extend the coloring activity by talking about colors too?
Bored
Sometimes those that suffer from ADHD will do anything to avoid being bored (I speak from experience), and that’s because their brains work a little differently to neurotypical brains. EVERYONE gets bored though, and that’s OK. What’s perhaps more of a challenge is finding things to do when we are bored. Trying our other free coloring pages might help?
Confused
