Feelings (use a soft toy)
“The purpose of this session is to look at feelings”
1. Children sit in an inward facing circle. You name a feeling and the children put on an appropriate face, e.g. happy, angry, sad, disappointed, nervous, lonely, good, interested, bored, impatient, jealous....
2. (Use the toy to give permission to speak)
Each child in turn completes the sentence, “I feel nervous when…” (you may have to give your own example)
Everyone has feelings. Do people always feel the same way?
(Read this: it may help to explain that people have different feelings)
A child falls over in the playground:
One child can’t help laughing at the sight,
Another feels sympathetic and rushes to help,
A third feels anxious and stands watching with a worried expression.
(Ask children to use the toy to give examples of their own.)
Ask: Does anyone in your group feel unhappy or worried about anything in the playground that they would like help with? (If the answer is yes, what will you do?)
