The emotions in children are very important for reinforce and they work from small. It is parents and not only teachers who must work with them, parents must teach them to control their emotions and knowing how to identify them.
Empathy in them is very important, that they know how to put themselves in the place of others to feel what others feel will help them a lot in the growth and emotional formation of the child. For this there are some games with which to work the different emotions.
The importance of emotions in children
Working well on emotions and empathy in children will help them a lot in the social relationships have during their lifetime. The important thing so that they can control their emotions well from a young age. Parents will focus so that they are able to identify the different emotions, that they know when they are happy and when they are sad, when they are angry and when they are afraid and obviously they know how to verbalize all these emotions.
The best way to work emotions is always with fun games and activities, always in a simple way and according to the age of each child. With games we will always enhance social skills and the main emotional skills.
As we have already reviewed, this type of competition based on the game they control basic emotions very well: fear, sadness, joy, surprise, anger and disgust. Also others that are very important like self-control, self-concept, empathy and self-esteem. People's lives are governed through feelings and emotions, and it is vitally important that children regulate and analyze how to identify when they are sad or happy.
Activities to work children's emotions
The best way to teach emotions is knowing them and teaching them. Crafts have become the best example to work on, but there are also activities that can be implemented on a daily basis and that greatly enhance this framework.
- The reading of stories. Reading to children or children beginning to read the stories offered by books is the best emotional entertainment. Thus create experiences with their imagination and recreate emotions, where they allow them to feel totally safe and without risks. Readings can be paused to discuss what is happening to their characters and how they make themselves feel.
- Create a list of emotions. Each time the emotions in a book are analyzed, they can be written down in a notebook. In the same way, you can create the same list to write down what you feel throughout the day, describing it with a single word and being able to create a drawing related to emotion.
- Use music for expression. It can be played in a group to make it much more fun. A compilation of a different style of music will be made and must interpret an emotion or sensation. Children should be standing and walking, when a song plays they should interpret when it sounds sad or if it gives a happy feeling. Each one must interpret what they feel and at the end of the song, what each one has experienced will be analyzed.
One of the activities that can be used to work on emotions with children at home are the lollipops of emotions. To prepare them we will only need some pole sticks and some cardboard or cardboard circles in which we will paint the faces with the different emotions we feel (happiness, sadness, fear…) On the back of the faces we can put the name of the emotion it represents to also work on the literacy. At every moment of the day we can take the lollipop that represents the emotion that we feel so that later they do the same with us and explain why they have chosen it.
Crafts also serve to work emotions
The following crafts are designed for all educational levels. Each skill must be matched to the child's skill or ability to interpret it. They are a form of power play with their sensory skills and having to control how it relaxes them or creates a little emotion that they can analyze.
The finger maze
This exercise is about the child having to use his finger to follow the paths of a maze (in this case printable). You have to start by tracing a path from the beginning and try to reach the end. Unintentionally, it is a concentration skill, where the child feels relaxed and is aware of how she regulates her breathing.
create sensory toys
These toys recreate their artistic side and then their effect leaves them hypnotized. Because many of them are magic bottles that they can recreate with recycled plastic and where we will fill them with any small object that can half-float, such as pom-poms, colored pipe cleaner bits, dice, glitter, colored chips, small beads, etc. From here we shake the bottle to observe its effect.
Another bottle that can be created is with oil. In a recycled plastic bottle we add water and fill with oil, but without filling it completely, since you have to leave a small space. We add food coloring and let it dissolve, it will only do so in the water. In this craft you can add a small effervescent tablet to simulate the appearance of lava emerging. But if not, you can simply stir and watch the oil particles move through the water without dissolving.
These crafts create a sensory moment that we must analyze together with the children. When we shake the bottles we will see how everything goes out of control, so we can recreate how is the head when we get angry. Observing afterwards how all the elements are deposited, will give the sensation of how everything comes to calmto be able to think more clearly.
Sorry, where have you printed the lollipops of emotions? or where can I get the same images? Thanks!
Search Google for “lollipop of emotions” and click on any of the links that directs you. Or click on any craft that appears in the images.