Feelings in a Jar: A Fun Game for All Ages for Endless Play & Interaction (In a Jar Series)

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If you don’t have pom poms at home you can use different color strips of paper, beads, or you can send kiddos on a scavenger hunt to find things of like colors around the house.

Having strategies that you can draw on, in the heat of the moment, can stop you from reacting in a way that that leaves both you and your child feeling helpless.When we identify the thought and see what thinking it is creating for us, we get all our power back because we then get to CHOOSE what we want to think- and therefore CREATE what we WANT to feel. You might feel angry, sad, abandoned, anxious, relieved, confused, peaceful, lonely, distant, or any number of other emotions depending on the day/hour/minute. Use this fun, tactile activity with EYFS or KS1 children to develop greater awareness of emotions, emotions vocabulary and ways in which children can use techniques to manage more uncomfortable feelings.

You can use this tool as a check-in at the beginning or end of the day to help support healthy communication of feelings. We encourage families to utilize this jar as a way to check-in with each other about the feelings they are experiencing and how BIG those feelings are.I’m not the biggest fan of books designed “to teach a lesson”, but this one did it so succinctly and simply, I see it as a favorite of school counselors for years to come.

Afterwards, he feels surprisingly better and decides to simply feel his feelings as they occur and then let them go.

Talking about breathing, using guided belly breathes can be a fantastic tool to use in the moment to help children manage big feelings. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Llewelyn is uncomfortable feeling his feelings, so he starts bottling them up and hiding them in the basement. We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. This activity is one we use in our Hands on Healing group to support families in communicating regularly about feelings.