The Color Monster: A Story about Emotions: 1

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The Color Monster is a children’s book by Anna Llenas about a confused and overwhelmed monster who learns to sort his emotions with the help of a little girl. The book is often used to teach children about managing their emotions and different ways to visualize how we feel. It is a fabulous book for initiating social emotional learning activities with children in the early grades and the basis for this fun social emotional learning activity. The Color Monster Emotions Activity: Free Printable Prepare the activity Love the collage-y illustrations of this picture book, but the text has some troubling issues. While it is vital to teach children to identify their emotions, it is just as important to help them understand that it is normal to feel more than one single emotion at a time, even about the same thing/person/idea. furthermore, labeling emotions with specific colors doesn't work as a one-size-fits-all solution, since color is a very personal experience; people feel very differently about the same color. Telling children that blue is sadness will confuse children who experience blue as tranquility, or power, or curiosity, or any number of other emotions. This book goes so far as to tell children how to experience certain emotions: Leí este cuento durante una clase y la verdad lo encontré bastante adorable. El monstruo no sabe lo que le pasa y muchos niños tampoco lo saben, están llenos de emociones que no tienen un nombre y no tienen una comprensión y al darle un color, al darle una descripción de acuerdo a ese color se abre una oportunidad muy simple para explicar algo tan complejo.

En bilderbok perfekt för den som vill prata om färger och känslor, i ett! Jag älskar bilderna i boken. De olika komponenterna är utklippta i olika material och färger, som ett stort kreativt pysselprojekt. Det skapar en häftig dimension. We are long time fans of The Color Monster book by Anna Llena– with it featuring on our 21 Best Books about Feelings and Emotions and 101 Social Skills Books for Kids booklists and one of our earliest Social Emotional Learning posts – 4 Ways to Boost Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence. Inside: This free, printable The Color Monster Emotions Activity is a fabulous activity for developing emotional intelligence with children in the early grades. To further explore feelings and emotions with young children, take a look here at our selection of other resources to use, including PowerPoints, display photos, worksheets and games.Keep encouraging those little ones to be creative and showcase their feelings in their art (and color monster art project). Children easily gain a better understanding of how artists use color to express emotion during this lesson. This project works really well with 5 and 6-year-olds. Some of the examples you will see in this post are from 1st graders. However, we know all elementary-aged children love monster art projects (so really this could work for any age).

As a group, we discussed the interesting allocation of colour to the different emotions. Children who are particularly struggling could simply assign themselves a colour for their feeling. However, I wonder how useful this colour allocation is, as some children might have a favourite colour associated with a negative emotion.Read The Color Monster book to students. Take another look through the book – noticing the color used to represent each emotion and how the illustrator use texture and imagery to represent each emotion?

This drawing is great because there really is no wrong way to do it! Most kids will feel successful and proud of their silly (or serious) artworks. It also allows them to be a little silly and what kid doesn’t love that? Start With The EyesRead the book, The Color Monster. Use the questions above or your own questions to help facilitate a discussion on how artists use color to express feelings. Step 2: Draw Eyes

Don’t worry though, this project is not as serious as it sounds. These fun and easy monster drawings do more than just create monster paintings.This set of colouring sheets shows a cute monster character representing different feelings and emotions. Invite children to decorate a monster using pencils, pencils, crayons or paint and talk about how they think each monster is feeling.