Nursery World - Face the feeling

Encourage the children to explore different feelings by matching the faces. Planned learning Intention

Planned learning Intention

Personal, social and emotional development

Resources

Plain paper, felt-tipped pens or crayons, 10 large envelopes, glue, a photocopier

Step by step

* Make a collection of pictures cut from magazines, advertisements and so on, showing people expressing as many different emotions as you can find.

* Discuss with the children any feelings which are familiar to them. Include happy, sad, worried, angry, scared, loving, tired, surprised, mad.

* Ask the children to draw a picture of a face on a piece of plain paper which expresses one of the feelings they have talked about. Try to have drawings showing ten different emotions and label them accordingly.

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