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This helps foster your child's emotional intelligence encouraging her to identify feelings. Begin this activity by showing your child the cut outs of feelings like happiness, sadness, anger and surprise. Help her glue these on a piece of cardstock paper. Now ask simple questions about the pi
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What you'll need
This helps foster your child's emotional intelligence encouraging her to identify feelings.
How it works
- 1~30s
Alright, let's get started! The purpose of this activity is to foster your child's emotional intelligence, encouraging him or her to identify feelings. Therefore, we'll be focusing on the social and emotional development area, specifically on emotional intelligence. To complete this activity, you will need card stock paper, cutouts of people expressing different feelings, non-toxic glue and crayons. you, watch your child closely — I'd love to hear what you notice about how they responds.
Watch for: Child name a character's feelings in a story using pictures, like pointing to the happy character.
- 2~30s
Great, now let's try the next part. Show your child the cutouts of feelings like happiness, sadness, anger and surprise. Help him or her glue these on a piece of card stock paper. Now, ask simple questions about the pictures. Tell me what your child does — any reaction counts!
Watch for: Child recogniz and tells others about their basic feelings, like being happy, mad, sad, or scared.
- 3~30s
One more thing to try. Talk about how each of these people feel. Then, draw the feeling which you identify the most with together. This activity encourages your child to identify and express feelings, fostering his or her emotional intelligence. Use Connecticut to stimulate growth in your child every day. How does your child handle this? What do you see?
Watch for: Child connect words and facial expressions to emotions.