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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
Coping Skills

Hopes and Fears Tree

Hopes and Fears TreeThe Hopes and Fears Tree is colorful craft to help kids understand that no matter what they’re worried about, they can still achieve their hopes and dreams.

Supplies Needed

  • Poster board or large sheet of paper
  • Markers, pens or pencils
  • Construction Paper (Green, brown and a variety of other colors)
  • Scissors
  • Glue

Making a Hopes and Fears Tree

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April 30, 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
Coping Skills

Emotion Stress Balloons

Stress BalloonsStress Balloons are a unique homemade alternative to the traditional stress ball that you can make with a child while talking to them about what is causing the stress in their lives. The instructions below use flour to fill the balloons. Use can also use rice, small beans or sand. These stress balloons can be a valuable soothing tool in a child’s Coping Tool Box.

What You Need to Make Stress Balloons

  • A package of balloons.
  • Flour (2/3 of a cup to a cup for each balloon)
  • Funnel (or a water bottle)
  • Pen or pencil
  • Sharpie Marker
  • Scissors

How to Make Stress Balloons

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April 19, 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

Color Wheel of Emotions

Color WheelThe Color Wheel of Emotions provides kids and teens an artistic outlet for exploring their emotions. It also provides a golden opportunity to talk about those emotions with them. Although a simple exercise, the Color Wheel of Emotion hits on most of the aspects of the The Super Simple Feelings Management Technique – particularly the “Talk About It!” component. And, the best part is, you don’t even have to be a good artist to do it. The color wheel above was done by my (at the time) 13 year old daughter Lyndsey.

Supplies

  • White piece of paper or poster board.
  • Colored pencils, crayons or markers.

How to Make a Color Wheel of Emotions

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April 13, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Coping Skills

Pool Noodle Fidget Toys

Pool Noodle Stress RelieversPool Noodle Fidget Toys are an easy DIY project you can make for, or with, your kids. They are cheaper than fidget spinners, squishies and other fidget toys, and you can mass produce them with relative ease. I’ve worked with kids for years, and for many of those years I was in charge of games with a large group of students. Ever since that time, I’ve kept a box of pool noodles in my basement, because you never know when you’re going to need them! (FYI, you can get a box fairly cheap after summer is over). A standard pool noodle can be used to create 42 fidget toys. Here’s all you need to know:

63 inches – 42 stress relievers

Items Need For Project

  • Pool Noodles
  • Scissors or a Knife
  • Ruler
  • Pencil

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April 5, 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

Emotion Egg Faces

Easter Egg FacesWith Easter coming up soon, it’s a great time to stock up on empty Easter Eggs. These Emotion Egg Faces are a simple, fun and captivating way to help kids learn about, and express, emotions. They can be utilized for several of the steps in the The Super Simple Feelings Management Technique.

How to Make Emotion Egg Faces

  • All you need for this craft is empty Easter Eggs, a marker and some clay or play-doh (optional).
  • Draw a different emotion face on each Easter Egg. The eyes and the nose should go on the top half of the egg with the mouth on the bottom.
  • Put a piece of clay in the bottom of each egg. This helps them to stand up better (you can see we used stands made out of pool noodle for the picture above)

How to Use Emotion Egg Faces

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March 27, 2018by Wayne Stocks
Understanding Emotions

Emotions Paper Chain

Emotions Paper ChainThe emotions paper chain is a fun craft you can do with kids and can be a crucial part of the Talk About It! component of The Super Simple Feelings Management Technique.

What You Need to Make An Emotion Paper Chain

  1. Various colors of construction paper.
  2. Scissors
  3. A marker, pen, pencil or crayons.
  4. Tape or glue

How To Make an Emotion Paper Chain

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March 20, 2018by Wayne Stocks
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