Emotion Exploration

Print stickers showing different emotions: excited, sad, surprised, frustrated, proud, nervous. Kids identify how they're feeling, pick the matching sticker, and talk about it. Visual emotion identification helps young kids name what they're experiencing. Or flip it: Let kids prompt how they feel ("I feel like a volcano about to explode"), then print that emotion as a character they can talk about, color, and keep.

Try prompts like:

• "A happy smiling face with big eyes"

• "A sad face with tears"

• "An excited face with sparkles"

• "An angry red face with steam"

• "A surprised face with raised eyebrows"

• "A nervous face looking worried"

• "A proud face with a confident smile"

• "A frustrated face with furrowed eyebrows"