The Colour Monster

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The next sheet is all about taking time to separate out and honor each feeling. With the My Feeling Jar worksheet you can clearly identify each feeling experienced and how much of each feeling. You can go deeper with young people and identify triggers, how they felt it in their bodies, warning signs of these feelings, and choices that might be helpful vs unhelpful to honor what is going on for them over the week. De este que os voy a decir...la fama ya le precede. Lo he comprado para introducir las emociones y sentimientos en inglés. También en formato pop-up. Me gustan mucho más este tipo de cuentos para usarlos en clase porque son más vistosos y captan muchísimo la atención de los alumnos. As a therapist I left the feeling words blank as to let client creativity lead the way (for older clients more feeling words and younger less) and not to have rigidity about what the feelings should be. This book is a wonderful story about a “Color Monster” who is full of mixed up colors and emotions. A little girl takes the monster by the hand and gently helps the Color Monster untangle and separate out all of these feelings and put them into jars.

Think of some questions that you would like to ask the Colour Monster about his first day at school. How might he respond?

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Make a diary to show how you are feeling each day. You could write this or draw coloured monsters to show your emotions. Don’t forget to explore our ideas and resources based on the original Colour Monster book too! Teaching Ideas and Resources: English

Sometimes feelings get… all tangled up. This can be confusing and sometimes we need help untangling them and sorting them all out. Enter “ The Color Monster” by Anna Llenas! This book is AMAZING and as I talk about here and here bibliotherapy is such a wonderful practice that is so adaptable to provide as a therapeutic approach in all sorts of settings – office, in home, at school, and of course Tele-Play! Think of some speech / thought bubbles for the illustrations. What might the Colour Monster be saying / thinking at different points in the story? Practice drawing faces that show different emotions. Can you draw a happy face? Can you draw an angry face? Use a mirror to see how your facial expression can change to show emotions. 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.

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: This sensitive book . . . encourages young ones to open up and discuss how they feel, even when their thoughts are confusing." — Parents The format of the book allows for a conversation with children about managing their feelings 'putting them into bottles' and discussing why they might be feeling a particular emotion.

Music is Nuna’s favourite lesson. Think of some exciting musical activities for her to try with the Colour Monster.In this story, yellow refers to happiness, red is for anger and blue is linked to sadness. Do you agree with those colour choices? Why? Let me know what else you are looking for and I might be able to brainstorm a solution to your problem! RPT-S™ , and EMDR Consultant. I help therapists that work with kids and teens go from a place of stress and survival to inspired and thriving. I give child therapists the resources, tools, and skills they need to be effective and confidentin their practice! Use Scratch (or a similar coding platform) to program a monster that changes colour when you press different keys (or when another action takes place).

The little girl puts the Colour Monster’s feelings into separate jars. Use the template below to draw things that make you happy/ angry/sad etc. Retell the story from the Colour Monster’s point of view. This could be in the form of a diary. You could also write Nuna’s story about the day. Look at the illustrations in the book. How have they been created? Could you use a similar technique for your own pictures?Make a timetable that shows when Colour Monster took part in different activities at school. Can you think of some word problems based on this? Estamos en tiempos donde cuesta mucho explicar lo que uno siente, el hacerlo con colores es un buen método para que un niño lo pueda comprender de a poco, conocer las emociones y conocerse a el mismo.