Exploring Emotions: Story Time! “In My Heart – A Book of Feelings”
What a lovely book “In My Heart – A Book of Feelings” (by Jo Witek) is! Here’s the Hackney Playbus team.. showing you how their hearts are feeling!
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Exploring Emotions: Body Language
Our body language is just as or even more important than our words. Here’s a game you can play with your toddler – it enables you to have a more complex conversation about feelings.
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Reading for Emotions
Apart from stimulating their imagination, reading with your child helps them learn about their emotions, how they feel, and create a vocabulary that aids expressing these emotions. Grab your books and get cosy!
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Exploring Emotions: Worry Dolls
Learn how to make your own worry dolls; they are handmade dolls that originate from Guatemala. The legend says that children tell the dolls their worries, place them under their pillow at night and they would learn how to eliminate their worries by morning. Magic?
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Exploring Emotions: Eggpressions!
Snack time is a great time to have a chat.. about feelings! Try some eggspresions! 😲 How are you feeling today?
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Exploring Emotions: Song Time! “If You’re Happy and You Know It”
Here’s another one of our favourite songs: “If You’re Happy and You Know It” performed by the Hackney Playbus team and their little guests! Join us!
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Spoon Puppets
What an ingenious way to learn about emotions: home-made spoon puppets! Can you name these feelings? Is the spoon sad, angry, scared, surprised?
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Mark Making: Steamy Windows
Drawing on steamy windows is another wonderful way to explore mark-making. In the winter when the Playbus windows steamed up so much, we’d often use the opportunity to draw different types of faces on the windows as a way of talking about and exploring emotions with young children.
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