A Guide to Smiles, Frowns, and Tears

A big smile that shows teeth conveys joy, for example, while a grimace can be a sign of pain or anger. It's important that kids are able to understand emotions and convey them properly. This can help them express themselves, it allows parents to better understand their needs, and it is necessary as they obtain an education.

Teaching Your Child to Identify and Express Emotions (PDF)

Both teachers and parents can read about how to teach young children to express emotions by clicking on this link. The document includes feeling words and activities to help them understand feelings.

Ideas for Teaching Children About Emotions

Educators who click on this page will find a list of ideas for ways to teach children about emotions at home and on a daily and weekly basis.

Got SEL? Teaching Students to Describe Emotions

Teachers who read this article will better understand how to help their students with their social-emotional literacy and why. The page also includes a few classroom activities that will help students with their emotional vocabulary.

What Should Teachers Know About Teaching Emotions?

This British Council page reviews what teachers should know when they are teaching their students social and emotional skills.

Teaching Your Child About Emotions

Identifying and understanding emotions is important, but not all children are able to do so. This article provides teachers and early childhood professionals with activities that introduce children to emotions and help them practice recognizing them.

At a Glance: Helping Your Child Learn to Read Facial Expressions

Either parents or teachers may visit this page for strategies on how to help children read facial expressions.

Face Bingo (PDF)

Recognizing and distinguishing between facial expressions is important and something that teachers can help their students learn by playing this fun face bingo game.

Ways to Help Children Learn About Facial Expressions

Teach kids how to understand faces and feelings with the activities that are listed and explained on this page.

Communication Intro Lesson: Telephone Game With Body Language (PDF)

On this page, teachers will find a communication game that helps children to understand how facial expressions and body language can affect what they are saying.

Learning About Emotions

Teachers of pre-K and kindergarten students can use these activities to help teach their students about emotions.

Printable Napkin Man Emotion Flash Cards

Kids 2 to 5 years old can be taught how to identify emotions with these printable emotion flash cards that can be used in the classroom or at home.

How to Teach Kids About Their Feelings

This page discusses how children can be taught to express their feelings. The page provides useful information for either parents or teachers.

Feelings and Emotions Flashcards (PDF)

Child education professionals who click this link will find colorful drawings that illustrate emotions and are meant to be used as flash cards.

Emotion Flash Card Activity (PDF)

Click this link to print cartoon character face emotion flash cards and review the associated activity, which is designed for all ages.

Six Ways to Support Pre-Schoolers' Social-Emotional Learning at Home and in School

On this page, people who teach children will find six ideas on how to help young children with their emotional learning.

Dealing With Feelings: How Do You Feel Today?

Kids who visit this page will find a game that lets them create different emotions by mixing and matching eye and mouth combinations such as happy eyes and a smile.

How Do You Feel?

Print the teddy bear outline from this PBS page and use it to draw expressions that illustrate emotions or let kids use it to express their emotions.

Feelings Games and Activities

Visit this page for a list of games and activities that teachers can use when teaching about emotions.

Eight Activities to Increase Emotional Vocabulary

On this page, parents and teachers will find eight activities that can help children identify different emotions and increase their emotional literacy.

Happy/Sad Face Games

Kids who play this face game can learn and practice recognizing and portraying emotions.

101 Ways to Teach Children Social Skills (PDF)

People who click this link will find activities and worksheets on communication, including facial expressions.

Feelings Glasses Activity (PDF)

Teachers who play this glasses game with students can teach them how to express certain emotions.

12 Ways to Teach Kids to Recognize and Label Their Emotions

On this page, teachers are given 12 game and activity ideas that can be used to help teach children how to identify their emotions.

Children's Classroom Games About Emotions

Four children's classroom games about emotions are listed on this page for teaching kindergarten, preschool, and ESL students.

Emotional Intelligence (PDF)

Open this link to view emotional intelligence activities for children who are between 5 and 7 years old.

Exploring Feelings and Emotions: Writing Activities for Kindergarten Students

Kindergarten teachers who click this page will find writing activity ideas for their students.

Personal Health Series: Feelings (PDF)

Click on the link to this teacher guide about feelings to review a list of feelings-related links, discussion questions, and student activities.

Recognizing Another's Feelings (PDF)

Kids who complete this activity will learn how to recognize the expressions that help show emotions in others.

The Feelings Game

On this page, kids can play the Feelings Game to practice identifying feelings based on one's expression. Kids can start playing by selecting an image and picking the appropriate answer when prompted.

Lesson Plan: The Emotion Wheel

This lesson is designed to help middle school students study differences and intensity in emotions by creating an emotion wheel.

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