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Learning Emotions - Preschool Self Identity Activity
Spectacular Me Activity
You will need: Small mirrors (enough for every two children in the class) and magazine pictures of situations that cause different emotions.
This is a sample activity from the Healthy Start Program
Encourage children to practice making faces in a mirror. Suggest they make faces to show feeling happy, sad, angry, scared, excited, surprised, etc.
Make a face and let them guess what emotion you are feeling to make your face look like that. Explain that by looking at your face they can guess what you may be feeling but they cannot be sure, because feelings are inside of you and only you know how you feel.
As a follow up activity, you may want to describe a variety of situations. These could be based on current classroom issues. Ask the children to make a face showing how the described situation makes them feel. Look at the children's faces and ask two children who have different emotions (one happy, one may be scared) to show their faces to the rest of the class.
Ask the children: Why do you think that one person has a happy face and one has a sad face?
Elicit a discussion about how the same thing can make two different people feel differently.
Describe other situations or show magazine pictures and point out the different emotions that the children are displaying.
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