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Understanding Emotions

Inside Out Mood Board

Inside Out Mood BoardThe movie Inside Out has been great for those of us working to help kids better understand and deal with their emotions. In addition to being a great movie, it has sparked a litany of crafts and games to go along with it. These crafts and activities can help kids to better understand the emotions they are feeling. The Inside Out Mood Board is one of those activities and is a fun way for kids who like the movie to track their emotions.

Supplies Needed for an Inside Out Mood Board

We originally found this idea on the Eighteen 25 website. We love their mood board, but we made some minor modifications to the one we built. These changes were mainly due to the materials we had on hand and because we like the idea of using a white board. Here’s what we used:

  • A magnetic white board purchased from a local dollar store.
  • Construction paper (you’ll need red, yellow, purple, green and blue to match the characters from the movie).
  • Circular cake boards purchased from a local hobby store to serve as the backing for the character.
  • Glue.
  • Adhesive magnets to attach to the back of the emotions.

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May 3, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Using a Feelings Journal to Cope

Emotions JournalWhether you like writing or drawing or none of the above, a Feelings Journal is an extremely useful tool in learning how to cope with emotions. It is one of the most important thinking coping skills in the Please Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff Coping Tool Box and can also serve as a diversion tool or even a spiritual tool. Your journal is a space to record what’s going on in your life, and even more importantly the emotions that you are feeling. It can be as simple as a binder full of lined paper, a journal purchased from the store, or one you make on your own. The rest of this post describes how we made the journal shown in the pictures here.

Supplies

  • A notebook filled with pages. We used a sketch book for our journal, but you may prefer lined paper.
  • Markers
  • Tissue paper
  • Glue

Instructions

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April 26, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Mirror Mirror

MirrorIf your kids are like mine, they like to look at themselves in the mirror. They like to make funny faces, and when they were younger it was uncommon to find them in the bathroom making themselves laugh by what they saw in the mirror. Mirror Mirror is a fun game that builds on that to help kids learn and practice what emotions look like. These are the important “See It” and “Mimic It” phases of the The Super Simple Feelings Management Technique.

Items Need to Play

You don’t need much to play this game. All you need is

  • A mirror (one on the wall is fine for one child, but if you’re playing with a group you might want hand mirrors).
  • A list of emotion words (our Hope 4 Hurting Kids Emotion Cards or the My Feelings Workbook are great if you need help.)

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April 20, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Gauging Emotions With a Mood Meter

Mood Meter

The Mood Meter is a fun craft to build and gives kids a chance to gauge how they’re feeling at any given moment, and over time. Your mood meter can be as simple or as involved as you want and is a nice alternative to a traditional emotion chart. We borrowed this wonderful idea from Education.com and encourage you to check out their website for more great ideas.

What Do You Need to Make a Mood Meter

Use your creativity to make your own personal mood meter. The following represents what we did:

  • White poster board.
  • Ruler
  • Compass (helpful for getting your circle right)
  • Construction Paper (you can match the emotions you are including in your charge, but you will definitely want a darker color to use for the arrow).
  • A metal brad/fastener.
  • Markers or crayons

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April 17, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Emotion Cards

emotion cardsA significant part of helping kids to deal with their emotions (Jump In! Stand Strong! Rise Up!) is helping them to develop a robust feelings vocabulary. That is why we are excited to present our very own set of Hope 4 Hurting Kids Emotion Cards.

What Are Emotion Cards?

Each of these 54 cards includes the name of an emotion, a face demonstrating that emotion, and a brief definition of the feeling. Definition have been taken from, or adapted from entries in the WordNet® lexical database of English. The emotions included in this deck of feelings cards were extracted from our upcoming book 150 Emotions Every Kids Should Know – By Age (coming, hopefully, in late 2018).

How Do I Get These Cards?

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April 3, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Emotion Face Plates

Emotion Face PlatesEmotion Face Plates are a fun way to get kids thinking about what emotions look like. Emotion Face Plates are an easy project that you can do with objects lying around your house, and once you get kids started, it is something they can continue to work on by themselves.

Supply Listing for Emotion Face Plates

This is a fairly simple task. All you need is:

  • Paper plates (that you can write on).
  • Markers, pens or crayons.
  • Scissors (if you want to make the half-plate emotion faces).

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March 29, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Fishing for Feelings

Fishing for FeelingsFishing for FeelingsFishing for Feelings is a fun game to play with kids to help them learn about emotions. With our template and a few magnets, you can create a game that will help preschool through elementary aged kids to Jump In! Stand Strong! Rise Up! Fishing for feelings is a great game to help kids start to master the skills included in the Super Simple Feelings Management Technique

Here’s how Fishing for Feelings works.

fishing for feelingsFirst download our easy to use template by clicking here or on the picture of the template to the right. Follow the instructions in the template for creating the emotion circles and playing the game.

We bought pre-made reinforced circles at Hobby Lobby and colorful magnets for minimal cost to make the game more aesthetically pleasing, but you can certainly cut your own reinforcing circles and use other magnets if you prefer. (NOTE: the link included for magnets are white as we found the color ones in our local store, but they are not available online)

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February 22, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

The Emotion Mix Up Game

Emotion Mix Up GameThe Emotion Mix Up Game is a fun way to really get kids and young people thinking about emotion by having them imagine what it would look like to have a less obvious emotion in reaction to a particular circumstance. Although it is similar to the Feelings Ball Toss game, it adds a fun twist that will get kids thinking about their emotions and the scenarios that cause them.

Here’s What You Need:

  • Last week we looked at the Feelings Ball Toss / Emotions Sorting activity. You’ll use the colored bowls and the balls from that game.
  • You will use a set of the Scenario Cards (I Feel) sorted by color. The colors will hopefully match the color of the bowls. If not, you can improvise.

Here’s How To Play:

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October 31, 2017by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Feelings Ball Toss / Emotions Sorting

Feelings Ball Toss

Feelings Ball Toss is a fun activity to play with kids to help them understand different emotions. The great part about the game is that it can be played a number of different ways.

Here’s How To Set It Up

  • Get a series of bowls or tubs. We used the different colored bowls shown about that we got at Dollar Tree for a buck a piece.
  • Label each bowl with a different emotions. You can write the emotion or draw a picture using marker, but we opted to print various emojis and tape them inside the bowls.
  • Get some sort of soft ball or object that can be tossed into the bowls. We bought a set of 12 puffer balls on amazon that we use for the game. In addition to not bouncing and rolling as much as regular balls, they’re also a nice stress reliever for the kids.
  • Set the bowls on one side of the room (up against a wall works well as a makeshift backboard).
  • Have the kids stand at the other side of the room with a ball.

Here’s How to Play

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October 24, 2017by Wayne Stocks
Coping Skills

Elephant Party Breather

Elephant Noise Maker

The Elephant Noise Maker is a fun and useful tool for teaching kids deep breathing techniques. Deep breathing is a key coping skill and one of the Soothing Coping Skills covered in Please Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff.

Elephant Noise Maker Side ViewElephant Noise Maker Front ViewIn the past we have drawn a picture of an elephant on a piece of heavy paper or cardboard to create our elephant noise makers. With this new template you can either use the picture to trace on something more durable or simply cut the elephant out and use the template itself.

Here’s are the instructions:

1.Cut out the elephant from the template. Either trace the elephant on to heavy duty paper or cardboard if desired or use the elephant from the template.

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October 12, 2017by Wayne Stocks
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