This car emotions pack will appeal to younger children. It covers the basic six emotions of:
happy
sad
angry
scared
surprised
disgust
There are a huge bundle of resources in this pack. There are:
6 Full page emotion posters
Emotion cards with and without the words
Dominoes with and without the words
Emotion spinners with the emotion cars with and without words
Emotion spinners with questions on each emotion
Emotion fans with and without words
An emotion game with and without words
Park your emotion with and without words
Scale your emotion with and without words
Strength cards are a brilliant way of raising self-esteem in children. Please see below for lots of ideas on how to use them.
There are lots of ways of using them to help boost a child’s self esteem. They help children to name and recognise their inner strengths. Great for the child who is shy or doesn’t want to speak out in front of others.
Lay all the strength cards out and ask the child to pick five strengths that represent them.
In a group situation, ask one child to sit in the centre of the circle and the rest of the children have to pick five strengths that represent that child.
In a group situation, give each child a white board and pen and go through the strength cards. The children can write five on their whiteboards.
Pick one of your strength cards and decide how you are going to use that strength – today, tomorrow, next week, next year?
Pick one of the strengths that you want to be. For example if you decide you want to be a good team player. How can you achieve that? Make a plan.
Pick someone you admire, it might be a footballer, a singer, a film star, a family member or a friend, what strengths do they have?
Put the cards face down, ask a child to pick one. Discuss the card. Does he/she know anyone with that strength? Do they have that strength? Would they want that strength?
Ask the child to design their own strength card. What image would it have? What would the strength be?
Use the strength cards as affirmations. Use the five cards the child has chosen and get them to say ‘I am strong, I am thoughtful, I am wise, I am musical, I am kind’. Put them in a little box and the child must look at them daily and repeat the affirmations.
Pick one strength card such as ‘affectionate���. Who do they know who is Affectionate? Discuss. This could also be a group discussion.
This resource explores lots of different emotions to allow children to see the connection their thoughts have with their feelings, physical sensations and actions.
When you think happy thoughts it makes you feel better both physically and mentally and your actions are more positive as opposed to when you think worrying thoughts or angry thoughts.
This resource, through exploration of these thoughts and feelings will give you a base to help children change their thoughts and see how that makes them feeling and act differently.
There are 40 sheets altogether covering 20 emotions. Girl clipart and boy clipart is used so you can choose which to use with the child you are working with.
Here you have a PowerPoint file of editable names. You can click on the name and change it. It will go to two lines if you want to add a surname too. The box is set to stay the same but your writing will be smaller or bigger depending on how many letters you put in.
There are 15 hand drawn backgrounds included in this pack all great for mindful colouring. Some are more complex than others so choose one that you think the pupil will like. The font is embedded into the file.
Once you have chosen from the 15 backgrounds, click on the name and change it.
Click ‘Save as’ and save the PowerPoint first.
Click ‘Save as’ again and choose PDF from the drop down list.
You can then print that page from your PDF.
You can duplicate one design if you want to by right clicking on the slide on the left hand side of your screen and choosing duplicate.
This pack is great for an opening session or just to catch up with the child after the long holiday. They can take it away with them and finish it at home if they want to.
These separation cards are perfect for touching base with your ELSA children. Once an intervention is finished it is important to keep contact with your children. Great relationships occur during ELSA interventions.
Some children do build a strong bond with the adult that they work with and these little cards will ensure that they know they are still being thought about and are not forgotten.
Of course these were created for the ELSA/Child relationship. These would also work well for Teacher/Child, TA/Child, Learning Mentor/Child or anyone who works either on a one to one basis or small group basis with children. Parent’s may even find them useful to pop in their child’s lunch box for example, or put one under their pillow to remind them about how amazing they are.
There are 22 different cards altogether
These cards can be printed on A4 card and there are 4 to each A4 sheet. Have a stack of them printed and ready to give out to your children. There is a mixture of ‘thinking of you’ type cards, ‘inspirational cards’ and even Birthday, Christmas cards.
Positive self-talk display pack for anxiety
Help children to change their thoughts when they feel anxious by displaying these thought bubbles in your classroom or area.
Print the banner as a poster in Adobe, you can choose how many sheets to print it over using the settings.
What is included?
How to change ‘Self-talk’ list
17 thought bubble suggestions
Positive ‘self-talk’ list
Positive ‘self-talk’ worksheet
‘When I feel anxious I can say’ banner
This resource will help to develop children's growth mindset as well as help them risk assess a situation. Children need to look at their mistakes, find out what they learnt by that mistake, understand the consequences and have another go or don't have another go depending on what has been learnt. Equally children do need to assess the risks of an activity they are doing to make sure they do not hurt themselves and to give a bit more thought into what they are doing. They need to understand the consequences of their mistake.
Included in the resource:
A game board
18 mistake scenario cards
10 ideas for using the mistake cards
worksheets to go with those ideas
Emotions early years – Teaching children about emotions is the most fundamental thing you can do to ensure children become emotionally literate and will help them with that all important emotional regulation. This ‘EMOTIONS’ resource will help to do just that. The main part of the resource is a powerpoint show where you can introduce each emotion. This gives lots of opportunity to work on one emotion at a time and promotes lots of discussion.
This resource is aimed at early years but there are children that you may feel would benefit from this in KS1.
Children are learning to:
Recognise the emotion
Understand what it means
Label the emotion
Express the emotion
This resource consists of:
A powerpoint show with 20 emotions and an emotional register
A PDF of the show
20 ‘girl’ emotion sheets in black and white for colouring
20 ‘boy’ emotion sheets in black and white for colouring
20 ‘girl’ emotion fans
20 ‘boy’ emotion fans
his activity will help teach children speaking and listening skills, so important for good social skills.
There is a Santa face, a plate template and 48 cookies with a range of Christmas items and also some emotion faces.
Cut out Santa’s mouth and stick the sheet to a box – I used an old Amazon packaging box but anything A4 sized will do. Cut out a selection of cookies and place them on the ‘Cookie plate’
This activity is fun for one to one working but two children could also use it together. You can start easy by saying ‘Feed Santa a yellow cookie’. ‘Feed Santa a pink cookie’. ‘Feed Santa a cookie with a present on it’, ‘Feed Santa a cookie with a bell on it’. Then move onto more accurate descriptions. ‘Feed Santa a yellow cookie with a Christmas tree on it’, ‘Feed Santa a pink cookie with a bow on it’. It could get even trickier with requests such as ‘Feed Santa a pink cookie with red lights on it’. There are also some ‘emotion cookies’ for work on emotions and listening skills. ‘Feed Santa a cookie with a happy face’, ‘Feed Santa a cookie with a worried face’.Children need to listen really well and follow the instructions.Children can also take turns to describe which cookie they want another child or you to feed to Santa.
This game looks at 16 different emotions including the basics of of happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised and disgusted. It is ideal for children from about 5 years old. My recommendation is that it is played with one or two children due to the space needed. Children take it in turns to throw a die and move that number of spaces on the base board. They will either land on a head, tummy or bottom. They take one of those cards and name the emotion. If it is a head they are seeing the facial expression. If it is a tummy they are seeing what someone might say who is feeling that emotion and if it is a bottom they are seeing the emotion word. The idea of the game is to build a complete monster.
This workbook can be made up to suit the child. Work on families can be very useful as it helps children to understand their identity and helping them to see the support network around them.
I have added sheets for different family members such as:
mum
dad
stepmum
stepdad
grandma
grandad
auntie
uncle
pet
sister
brother
stepsister
stepbrother
There are 23 sheets altogether in the pack.
If you require any more family members then please comment below and I can add them to the pack.
Bee Here Now! is a therapeutic story to help a child suffering from worries or anxieties. It also addresses bullying.
There is an accompanying workbook which will teach children some mindfulness techniques.
Also included is a set of ‘cloud’ feeling fans.
For more resources on anxiety check out Master Your Monsters
Anxiety and Worries group intervention
This is ideal to play with groups of up to 8 children. Children will learn about good listening skills through playing this game and it will constantly reinforce those essential skills.
Included in the pack:
One poster for display in the classroom/ELSA area
8 bingo boards with the images in different places
1 set of calling cards
Empathy is a very difficult thing to learn for children and this lapbook will help to teach the skills needed. I have named it ‘Kindness’ because being empathetic is about being kind isn’t it? Caring about other people’s feelings and wanting to help them in some way.
Children will learn how to recognise their own feelings and the feelings of others. They will learn to look at different perspectives and how to get the full picture. The vocabulary of pity, empathy, sympathy and compassion will be taught. Children will look at ways of showing that they care and will become ‘care collectors’ – they will collect times when they showed kindness and times when they received kindness. This will help them to see that it actually feels good to be kind and caring. Basic listening skills will be taught so that they know how to listen to someone who might have a problem.
Each child is given a Bingo base board and a set of counters. Cut up the word cards and read out the ‘I can’ statement. The child looks for that statement on their board and covers it with a counter. Continue until someone has a straight line horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
There is also a board for children to choose 3 ideas that they will try to help them relax and be more mindful. There is a set of image cards, image cards plus I can statement to print off and the child can stick them to their base board to take away at the end of the session.
Other ideas to use this game:
Matching pairs game with pictures
Matching pairs game with pictures and ‘I can’ statement
Print out the cards and put on a keyring as a reminder
As a stimulus for discussion
Set 2 is available from my Shop
To be mindful of children of ALL ages who would benefit from an emotions check in I have created this resource. It is suitable for children as young as 3 or 4 and as old as 16 or even older.
The resources consists of:
14 base boards with different backgrounds
light skinned emotion faces
darker skinned emotion faces
emoji faces
small girl emotion character
small boy emotion character
These growth mindset support cards can be used to help encourage a growth mindset in the classroom. They could be printed onto card and given to children to show their efforts are being recognised by the Teacher/TA/ ELSA. There are 20 cards – 4 to an A4 sheet so a handy size to hold. If you want them bigger then just print on A3.