41. Identifying emotions and how it feels inside the body

Identifying emotions is an important part of building a self-image for each child. Prompting children to talk about their emotions, helps them identify coping strategies that are constructive and helpful in building positive images about the self and the world. Materials required 1. A printout of the ‘Feeling face’ card. 2. Small mirror(5cm x 5cm), Pencil, eraser, Paint/ crayons/colour pencils. Character emotions chart 1. Take a printout of the ‘Feeling face’ card. 2. Ask your child to close his/her eyes and think of situations that made her /him happy, sad, surprised and angry for a minute. 3. Ask them to say how it feels inside the body and where it feels so. Have a conversation on why they feel so? How do you think it affects your body and others? 4. Now ask them to show each emotion (happy, sad, surprised and angry – one by one). 5. Then ask them to see how it looks and draw it in their own ‘Feeling face’ card. 6. Then ask them to colour them with whichever colour they feel like. 7. Ask the child why they chose the particular colours for each emotion. Resource link: Feeling face card: https://in.pinterest. com/pin/673780794233071804/ Reference for parents: https://in.pinterest.com/ pin/713679872179464430/