HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY? · If you’re feeling anxious, worried or even frightened today try one or two of these activities to help you relax: Make a playlist of quiet relaxing

HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY?If you’re feeling anxious, worried or even frightened today try one or two of these activities to help you relax:

Make a playlist of quiet relaxing music. Listen to it. Allow your body to relax.

Sit down and take deep breaths. Breathe in through your nose for 3 seconds, hold your breath for 3 seconds, then breathe out through your mouth for 3 seconds. Can you feel yourself begin to relax?

Text or call an older adult. Chat about how you are both doing.

Look for a book that you loved as a little kid. Read it again.

Stand at a window. What do you see outside? What 5 things are you thankful for?

Look for art supplies: coloured pencils, pens or markers, plain paper or colourful paper. Create something that you can put on your window to make people smile when they see it.

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Feeling Anxious or Scared? Focus on your five senses. See if you can list:

5 things you can see: __________________________________________________

4 things you can touch or feel: ____________________________________________

3 things you can hear around you: _________________________________________

2 things that you smell in the air: _________________________________________

1 thing that you can taste: ______________________________________________


FOCUS ON YOUR SENSES

Naming My EmotionsSee if you can find the listed emotions hidden in the word search. The words are hidden backwards, forwards and even diagonally. Circle the emotion words you find and cross them off the list.

afraid disappointed hurt proudangry embarrassed jealous rejectedanxious excited joyful sadbored frustrated kind shybrave glad lost unlovedconfused happy loving upsetdepressed hopeful mad worried

A B C O N F U S E D C D F

H A P P Y E T R U H A F R

G G H J I K J O L X N S U

O N P E Q R R S S H Y Z S

D I S A P P O I N T E D T

E V U N V M A D W X H E R

S O Y X U Z A I L L O P A

S L B I P B C A O U P R T

A X R O S R D R S F E E E

R D A U E E G F T Y F S D

R H V S T J E A L O U S E

A J E I K E L M N J L E V

B O C P Q C R K I N D D O

M X S T U T V B O R E D L

E W A X Y E Y R G N A Z N

A G L A D D E I R R O W U

Which of these emotions have you felt over the last couple of days?


What are you feeling today?Look at the emojis. Underneath the emoji, write or draw what happened that made you feel this way.

Scared Happy Angry Worried Safe


1. What happened to make you feel angry? Explain the situation.

2. What were you thinking when this

happened?

5. What could you do to cool down after feeling

these emotions?

6. What will you do differently to resolve the

situation?

How do you express what you are feeling?Use the boxes below to help you think about what happened when you became angry with someone or something.


3. What emotions besides anger were

you feeling during the situation?

4. How did you respond when you felt these

emotion?

The following pages contain additional

activities that you can use to help your child learn the names or words for emotions

and feelings.

When we learn to identify what we are feeling, it helps us to express our feelings

with words.


Ball Toss Emotions

Help your child learn to identify their emotions with this simple activity.

Materials Needed: A beach ball (available at most dollar stores), and a permanent marker

Take a blown up beach ball and write as many emotion words as you can think of all over the ball. Have your child help you come up with these words. Then play a few rounds of toss with the ball. When you or your child/ren catch the ball, look at which emotion word is nearest to your left thumb, say the emotion word and then share a time you felt that emotion.

Some Emotion words to get you started:

HappyExcitedSadDepressedLonelySillyPlayfulFrustrated

AngryMadJoyfulTicked OffScaredFrightenedAnnoyedSurprised

TrustLovingLovedTrustedPeacefulSafeBoredPity

PrideShameWonderCourageConfusedThankfulHatredAmused


FIND THE EMOJISHow many of each of these emotions did you find?

__________ angry __________ confused __________ happy __________ proud

__________ sad __________ safe __________ scared __________ surprised


Making FacesPartnering with your child (or standing in a circle or sitting around the table with your family), spend a few minutes making faces at each other.

1. One of you choose an emotion2. Each of you make a face that expresses that emotion and hold it3. Look around at each other to check out your faces4. Ask yourselves: Have you ever seen each other make these faces before? 5. Talk about situations that might make you feel the emotion you just shared on your faces6. Repeat with another emotion7. Have fun making faces at each other!


What emotions are these kids showing you?

Design Your Own Emojis

Help your child learn to identify their emotions by designing their own emojis. Cut out the cards below and on the next page. Start with the emotions below (or work with your child to come up with other emotions), and have them draw an emoji that they think expresses the feeling.

Happy Sad

Angry Bored

Silly Loved


Try these emotions: shyconfusedanxious

proudsafesurprised

nervouslonelythankful

scaredembarrassedticked off

guiltydisappointedexcited


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HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY? · If you’re feeling anxious, worried or even frightened today try one or two of these activities to help you relax: Make a playlist of quiet relaxing