Post It Notes Emotions for Kids Activity

Children’s emotions activities are a wonderful way to know exactly how they are feeling. 

It is important to know how your LO is feeling and how you can remedy it so that you can help get them through their day in a healthy manner. 

Here is an easy activity you can try with post it notes (created by my oldest) and it works on emotions for children. 

It includes a bit of emotions faces and works on pointing at any emotions feelings your LO may be going through. 

Learning to talk and express any feelings is a good way to learn about how to help your LO feel better. 🙂 

I’ll be sharing below how easy this activity was to set up and how immensely powerful this little activity is for learning more about feelings and more on emotions for toddlers, emotions for preschoolers and emotions for kids. 

Related: Looking for another fun and easy post it note activity? Check it out here! 

Materials: 

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• Post it Notes

• Marker

• Sheet of Paper or sheet of Cardstock Paper

Can you believe these are the only materials you will need for this powerful activity? 

So easy! 

How to explain emotions to a child

How do you explain emotion to a child? 

You can try this really easy activity which displays the list of emotion and feelings one may be going through. 

My oldest created this epic idea for her little sister and it was a total hit! 

She included an emotion list of different characters: 

• Happy

• Sad

• Disappointed

• Angry

• Surprised

• Worried

• Nervous

• Smile

• Sleepy

And more.. so that her little sister can express her feelings and in turn we can talk about why she is feeling this way and what we can do to help her out. 

What are the 10 basic emotions? 

Here is the list of emotions for kids and the 8 basic emotions: 

• Happiness

• Sadness

• Fear

• Anger

• Surprised

• Disgust

• Interested 

Any other emotions may be a stem of the basic emotions. 

What is emotions in simple words? 

Simply put, emotions are feelings that are being expressed by oneself. 

This activity is an easy one and fun for teaching about emotions. 

How do I teach my child to deal with emotions? 

This is one way you can easily teach littles to learn about the emotions they are feeling. 

Then, if you’d like to elaborate more on how to deal with them, you can learn to: 

• Discuss why it made you feel this way. 

• Elaborate more on where it all started. 

• Find effective ways of learning to deal with any emotions the next time it happens. 

• If it is a negative emotion, It’s best to feel it rather than suppress the emotion and then let it go. 

• Try an easy feelings for kids activity or feelings/emotions activities for a group of children so they can learn to express themselves by pointing at the correct emotion that they are feeling (This is a wonderful way for how to explain emotions to a child.)

Related: If you are looking for ideas on how to teach your LO about emotions, check out our seasonal busy books which contain emotion sheets in almost all of the months.  

These are a great way to learn about managing emotions for kids and to look deeper into any feelings for kids that your LO might be going through. 

Check it out here: Teaching your child to identify and express emotions pdf files.