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Emotion Flashcards – 32 Emotions
Our Emotion Flashcards for children offer a valuable resource for promoting emotional literacy and self-awareness in early years children and KS1 children. With real photos of children depicting a diverse range of emotions, these flashcards provide a rich and authentic learning experience that empowers children to understand and navigate their emotions with confidence.
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Emotion Flashcards for Children
Introducing our Emotion Flashcards for Children featuring real photos of children! These flashcards offer a unique and authentic way for children to explore and understand emotions. With 32 emotions sorted by colour, these flashcards can be used to support emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Features:
- Real Photos of Children: Each flashcard features a real photo of a child expressing a specific emotion, providing children with relatable visual cues to identify and understand emotions.
- 32 Emotions: The flashcards cover a wide range of emotions, including both basic and complex feelings, allowing children to explore the nuances of emotional expression and move through each zone.
- Sorted by Colour: The flashcards are categorised into colours (Green, Yellow, Blue Red).
- Versatile Use: The flashcards can be used as traditional flashcards for emotion recognition and vocabulary building, or they can be integrated into activities and discussions about emotional regulation and self-awareness.
How to Use:
- Download and Print: Download and print the Emotion Flashcards for Children.
- Explore Emotions: Introduce the flashcards to children and encourage them to explore the range of emotions depicted on the cards. Use the real photos to spark discussions about how emotions are expressed and experienced.
- Interactive Activities: Why not engage children in interactive activities using the flashcards, such as emotion charades, emotion matching games, or emotion journaling exercises? Encourage them to express and reflect on their own emotions using the flashcards as prompts.
Emotions depicted:
Green:
Happy
Calm
Proud
Loved
Cheerful
Grateful
Content
Okay
Yellow:
Frustrated
Amazed
Surprised
Worried
Nervous
Excited
Embarrassed
Annoyed
Blue:
Tired
Bored
Tearful
Sad
Disappointed
Ashamed
Sick
Shy
Red:
Scared
Upset
Overwhelmed
Disgusted
Furious
Grumpy
Aggressive
Angry
Our Emotion Flashcards for children offer a valuable resource for promoting emotional literacy and self-awareness in early years children and KS1 children. With real photos of children depicting a diverse range of emotions, these flashcards provide a rich and authentic learning experience that empowers children to understand and navigate their emotions with confidence.
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