Margarida Paim - EBI Praia da Vitória - Azores - Portugal

1 - Emotions and art.

Through art, children recognize and represent some of the characteristics of different emotions, reflect and talk about emotions

2 - Using masks as a facilitator to express your emotions.

We started our project by recognizing the expressions of emotion.

We worked out our feelings with on line meeting

 We got to know our monster

We started with emotional expressions.

Ogni mattina i bambini in circle time fanno il richiamo delle emozioni mettendo il loro nome accanto all'emozione che li rappresenta.

Abbiamo costruito i barattoli delle emozioni e in base all'emozione del mese riempiamo il barattolo con cose di quel colore.

Raising awareness of the importance of protecting the environment: use recyclable materials in our works.

One of the strategies used to involve the families in the project was the creation of the dolls Aurora and Roberto who went to the children's home, at the weekend, to talk about emotions.

WE LEARNED TO IDENTIFY EMOTIONS THROUGH DIFFERENT STORIES AND LOTS OF EASY GAMES.

And they also talked about their feelings and expressed them by drawing.

KEZBAN ÖZDEMİR SAVCI AKKENT PRİMARY SCHOOL GAZİANTEP/TURKEY

We have included Joy and Sadness facial expressions in many of our activities such as rhythm, coding, experimentation and painting.

But the most meaningful activity we did was "Let's Turn Sorrows into Joy", where we shared our toys and belongings.

Lurdes Ferreira   Kindergarten Lixa, AELixa, Portugal

We promote diversified strategies, using various materials, nature and plastic, so that children can externalize their emotions, Joy and Sadness.

Joy and Sadness, emotions to learn to recognize and deal with them.

We did our moving activity to get to know our emotions. At the end of our activity, my children also had the opportunity to express their feelings.

We did our velcro activity to recognize and present our emotions. While the children were having fun, they also developed their fine motor skills. At the end of our activity, my children also had the opportunity to express their feelings.

Abbiamo parlato di come possiamo rallegrare i nostri tristi amici. Successivamente, i bambini hanno illustrato questi pensieri con dei disegni.

We had a role play activity in which the children presented when are they happy: I am happy when I come to kindergarten, when I can play as much as I want, etc.

We study a book about the Unicorn Gaston who express this feelings fraught breathing exercises. In picture 5 years old boy draw the Gaston who breath and share this own happy stars with others.  

Thought about that you make sad or angry, fuse sheet, straighten the sheet and draw things that make you fell better. 

Nefeli Fragiadaki

Kindergarden of Sfaka

We read a book about emotions!!

We found and wrote the emotions!!

we draw happiness and sadness!

Expressions in the mirror and  treasure box full of photos with emotions

Inspired by the book 

"Color Monster"

we worked the emotions through theater and music

Playdoh

Drawings

With the family we build partnerships to talk about emotions.

In the posture of the bodies we read the emotions.

We like to explore our emotions using materials that are readily available: nature materials from our local park, homemade playdough, and paint. There is a lot of joy in gathering and making these materials together with the children. 

Painting to sad music, allowing expression through movement and colour.

We have the corner of emotions. There the children talk about what is bothering them, show us how they feel at all times, read books about emotions and find solutions to each other's problems.

Emotions matching game

We tried to understand their feelings with drama in the week of disabled people.

We created different emotions on emoticons board.

The sad autumn man. 

Tunnel of joy. 

A treasure against sadness. 

Escape from sadness. 

With the children we read the  book "Open and learn - The emotions" which is the Greek translation of the book "Feelings A Lift-the-Flap Book of Emotions - Find Out About "-Kathy Gordon (author) . The children talked about all the different emotions they experience through examples from their everyday life

we made emotion faces

red for anger, purple for fear, blue for sadness, yellow for joy. We talked about what makes us feel joy, sadness, anger and fear, choosing each time the corresponding emotional face.

Silvia Muzzopappa/I.C. Calò/Ginosa / ITALY

Firstly,we explored different emotions

Finally, my children, expressed their preference about feelings

Le storie sono un ottimo modo per esplorare i sentimenti. 

Games are a fun way to explore feelings. (Make Mona Lisa laugh!)

Every day we experience a new experience of emotions. They can be good or bad. Through mutual support, we try to overcome the bad ones and express the good ones in various ways.

Playing "PULL /PUSH"  - Encouraging cooperation

Using colour to express where can you feel the anger in your body

Whit my group, talking and sharing ideas was the principal. The emocionómetro was fundamental to the acquisition of the knowledge of emotions.

Kristiine-Teele & Nele , Tallinn Kindergaten Pääsusilm, Estonia

Emotion balls - roll the ball, name the emotion or what makes the ball feel this way

We made a box of emotions with different activities that make us feel emotional

Getting to know different emotions doing different activities

We play empathy games to understand how our classmates feel

Emine Şahin-İtu Gvo-Turkey

Parent Involvement Activity: Feeling box activity.

"I feel... when ... happened" activity.

Stories and cooking activities.

Emotion tree

we learned when somebody feels happy and sad through many activities

if sad was color, food or weather 

what would be?

Zoe Stavrakaki 

Kindergarten of Kokkini Hani, Greece

My sad emotions are inside the balloons. Then we let them fly away.

"Senecio" Paul Klee

Zoe Stavrakaki 

Kindergarten of Kokkini Hani, Greece

Lucrezia di lena,

 ICS "G. Calò" di Ginosa, Italy

the joy of putting your hands in color and drawing

The wonder of freshly baked bread

CHILD AND PUPPET

The world of dolls is a world of endless imagination. The child that is playing with dolls gets rich in knowledge and emotion. A doll is a pedagogical tool that helps the child in the process of improving the child's communication. It also gives a kind of protection because while the child is expressing the feelings of the puppet, it is actually describing its own emotions. After all, it might seem easier that way for the child. When animating a dummy, a timid child becomes courageous, reclusive becomes open, silent or quietly becomes talkative or loud. The doll can help the child find a place among its peers, participate in teamwork and control its impulse.

Anita Tolić

 DV  Grigora Viteza / Croatia

We played games, drawn our feelings and used the Chinese myth to get rid of our fears. Despina Tsifetaki(2nd Pre-primary school, Ierapetra-Greece)

we made dream traps to protect us from bad dreams......

 What makes me afrai¨d.......

We listened and explored the story of the color monster, we built flasks of emotions and made matching games, we also built giant card monsters.

Curione Angelica,

 I.C. "G. Calò" di Ginosa, Italy

Isabel Mota, EBI Praia da Vitória - Lajes, Portugal

The last few weeks have been dedicated to affection and this last one, in particular, to the theme of emotions with the book "O Monstro das Cores". Several activities were developed, so here's a little record... we hope you like it :)

Papoytsaki Kalliopi- Tsianta Andromachi  Kindergarten Kentri class 2 , Greece

How i feel today ? 

The emotion area 

             ilknur AY

Mehmet Ali Bakkaloğlu Kindergarden Kayseri Türkiye

Kadi Perillus Väätsa Kindergarten Paikäpp, Estonia

We learned to identyfy emotsions trought picture and games.

We learn expressing our different feelings.