Emotion cards galore – Item 134

This Emotion cards galore resource has 222 colourful emotion cards for display or for working with children. There are also 4 banners for you to choose from and print.

The banners are in PDF format and you need to alter your settings to print over several pages if you want it very large. The one in the picture is printed over 3 pages landscape but the quality of the PDF is pretty good so you could do it bigger if you choose. Choose the ‘poster options’ and change the setting to suit the size you would like. You will obviously have to piece it together but it will look fabulous when done.

The Emotion cards galore pack could be used in lots of different ways. You could use them with children:

• Find an emotion word you don’t know the meaning of and find out!
• Pick a positive emotion and use it in a sentence.
• Pick a negative emotion and use it in a sentence.
• Think about your day and pick out all the emotions you have felt in that day.
• Make collages of angry, happy or scared words.
• Start a feelings diary and pick out your main feeling for that day. Write it down and explain why you felt that way.
• Pick a card and draw the facial expression or a time when you felt like that.
• Find all the synonyms of that word on the picked card.
• Pick a card and draw a comic strip of what happened when you felt like that, use speech bubbles and thinking bubbles to show what you were thinking or saying (you can purchase ELSA Support’s Comic strip resource to help you with this)
• Make your own feeling’s dictionary by picking out all the emotion words you have heard of, writing them down in alphabetical order and write a brief description of what it means.
• Pick an emotion word and see if you can make the face with ELSA Support’s Make a face activity.
• Pick an emotion word and write a thinking bubble. What would you be thinking if you felt like that?
• Pick an emotion word and write a speech bubble. What would you be saying if you felt like that?
• Pick an ‘angry’ emotion word. How could you calm yourself down if you felt like that? ELSA Support’s traffic light pack has lots of ideas. and there is a ‘Cool it’ game available on the site.
• Pick an emotion word and think about the physical feelings you get when you have this emotion. Does your heart beat faster? Do you breathe faster,  get butterflies in your tummy or feel warm or cold?
• Pick an emotion and….
  • make the face, use a mirror to practise.
  • act it out with a friend.
  • make up a scenario that would make you feel like that.
• Make up a scenario for a child and get them to choose the emotion they would feel in those circumstances.
• Pick a positive emotion and try and use the word as many times as you can in one day.
• Pick an emotion card and write or talk about how someone might behave when they feel that emotion. What might they do?
• Pick an emotion and think about who could help you if you felt like that or how could you help yourself if you felt like that?
• Pick an emotion card and see if you can find the opposite emotion. An example would be that happy is the opposite of sad.
• Pick a negative emotion card and think about how you could change that emotion to a more positive emotion. What could you do?
• Pick an emotion card, what animal does this emotion make you think about?
• Pick an emotion card. If this emotion was a colour, what would it be?
• Pick an emotion card. If this emotion was a toy, what would it be?
• Pick an emotion card. If this emotion was a sport, what would it be?
• Pick an emotion card. If this emotion was a smell, what would it be?
• Pick an emotion card, hide it from your friend but make the facial expression. Can they guess what the emotion word is?
• Pick an emotion card, what noise does this emotion remind you of?
• Pick an emotion card. If you felt like this how would other people around you feel?
• How would your…..
  • parents feel?
  • sister or brother feel?
  • friends feel?
• Pick an emotion card and make some art. Just draw or paint whatever this word means to you.
• Can you feel more than one emotion at a time? If you sometimes feel more than one emotion see if you can find the emotion words to match those feelings. You could draw a heart shape and write all the emotion words in the heart.
• Pick an emotion card. When you have this feeling what action do you take? What do you do?
• Pick an emotion card and create a thoughts feelings and action chart.
• Choose an emotion card. What triggers this emotion in you?
• Choose an emotion card. Who does this emotion remind you of?
• When reading your reading book, think about a character and the emotions they are showing. Find some word cards to match those emotions.
• Pick out some emotion words and give each emotion an action. What action could you use for angry? What action could you use for happy?
• Pick a handful of emotion cards and sort them between positive and negative emotions.
• Pick an emotion word and think about what job that emotion has. What does it tell you?
• Pick an emotion word and think about where you would want to be if you felt like that. Who would you want to be with you? You could draw a picture.
• Pick an emotion word. What song does the emotion word remind you of?
• Find 5 different emotions that you have felt this week?
• What is your favourite emotion? Find it!
• Which emotion do you dislike most? Find it!
• Make your own list of emotion words without looking at cards. When you have your list complete then see how many match the cards. Do you have some extra ones on your list? What are they?
• Learn to spell some of the emotion words. You might be able to use them in your writing.
• Make a ‘feelings picture’ by either drawing a picture of you in the middle of the page or use a photo and choose all the emotions you have ever felt. Write them in bubble writing around your picture.
• Listen to some music and pick out all the emotions that the music makes you think about.
• Just like the movie ‘Inside out’ can you create a character for one of the emotion words?
• Pick a handful of emotion words and sort them alphabetically.