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We have been sharing with you some of the fabulous mindfulness resources from Upside Down Books on KiddyCharts to help kids recognise their feelings. Today, we have another book to share with you, alongside an activity from it; It’ll be OK, beautifully illustrated by Josephine Dellow. This book is focused on helping kids to understand and acknowledge their feelings, and the today we are sharing a how to help kids recognise their feelings activity sheet. This resource comes from the book, and is invaluable for both parents and educators in starting the conversation with kids aged 5 to 8 (ideally) about their feelings.
This activity is focused on helping kids to name, and recognise the feelings that they have, as well as accepting that is really is OK to have less positive thoughts. Everyone has moments where they don’t feel so good; we almost have to experience the lows, so we can register the highs.
Mega Match up feelings activity sheet
This is a beautifully illustrated activity sheet, with the idea that children match up the emotion, with the facial expression and the body language for that feeling.
Children need to draw the lines from the name of the emotion to the face that is showing that emotion, and finally to the child that is showing their their body that they are experiencing that emotion.
The activity sheet can be used to start a conversation around those feelings too:
- What has made you feel excited recently?
- Have you felt sad at all today?
- What might you do if you knew one of your friends was sad?
- What makes you angry?
- What do you do when you are angry?
Expressing emotions is complex when you are as young as 5, and can even be difficult for adults. Sometimes even the mere act of naming a negative emotion can help children to feel that they have a little more power over that feeling. This is a first step to helping children to be more in control of their emotions, and less likely to suffer from anxiety.
As with the whole book, naming emotions also helps children to acknowledge that it is OK to feel both happy and sad in our lives too. Just so long as that feeling of sadness doesn’t become over-whelming and start to have a profound effect on other aspects of our lives, such as our ability to make friends, or join in with activities.
To download the activity sheet – all you need to do is click on the square image below as always.
Do pop over to Amazon and check out the It’ll Be OK book in full, as there are loads of great activities and over 100 stickers to help kids in it. The illustrations really help bring the activities to life, and its focus on helping younger children learn from an early age how to understand and process their feelings is incredibly important.
RRP £7.99
You may have spotted how important we think mindfulness for kids is; so we have a few other activities focused on this within the site. Here are a selection, but do check out as many of them as you can.
Mindfulness activity sheets for kids
We have a few activity sheets from Upside Down Books on the site - take a look at these, but search Mindfulness on KiddyCharts, or choose the heading from the Menu above to explore more.
How to help kids understand life better - mindfulness activity
A simple little activity to help children to understand their life and therefore help deal with it just that little bit better.
Complete the mandala mindful activity for kids
Getting our kids to focus and be more mindful by asking them to complete a Mandala and then colouring it in. Such a relaxing and focused activity.
Mindful mantras for kids free printables
Positive thoughts for kids to use to start the day - some mindful mantras for positive thinking.
How to calm kids with a present moment wheel
Using a present moment wheel to help calm children's thoughts and feelings.
Mindfulness resources are available outside our site to of course:
Mindful activities for kids from other sites
Here are a few more ideas for you about mindful activities that your kids can do today.
50 Mindful Journal Prompts for Teens
Some prompts for the journal that you might now have from Upside Down Books - or just some general journaling ideas for your kids.
Tip To Encourage Mindful Sibling Relationships
Ideas for encouraging mindful sibling relationships - something that we struggle with a little in our family...so perhaps some of you do to?
Inspiring Your Child to Love Themselves
Helping your kids with their self-esteem is a great way to encourage them to be more mindful too. Why not check out this advice to help them?
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Helen
Helen
Helen is a mum to two, social media consultant, and website editor; and this site is (we think) the only Social Enterprise parenting magazine!Since giving up being a business analyst when juggling travel, work and kids proved too complicated, she founded KiddyCharts so she could be with her kids, and use those grey cells at the same time.KiddyCharts has reach of over 1.1million across social and the site. The blog works with big family brands (including travel) to help promote their services, as well as offering free resources to parents of kids under 10.It gives 51%+ profits to Reverence for Life, who fund a number of important initiatives in Africa, including bringing running water and basic equipment to a school in Tanzania.Helen has worked as a digital marketing consultant (IDM qualified) with various organisations, including Channel Mum, Truprint, Talk to Mums, and Micro Scooters. She loves to be creative in the brand campaigns she works on.Get in touch TODAY!