The Colour Monster

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If you are doing any sort of metaphor work with kids this is a GREAT book to get the wheels turning!

This makes sense as to why my most favorite line in the book is “ Sometimes, you want to take out your anger on others.

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. As opposed to a color your heart activity (where the feelings are separate) the Color Monster’s feelings can be mixed up. Now that the children know what Monsters eat, are they brave enough to take the ‘Monster Eat the Rainbow Challenge’?

The PDF version needs to be downloaded off the drive and then when you open it up on your computer it is three separate pages. Also, an original with the "How are you feeling today" so our students can glue the monster onto and the original "My Feelings Jars" sheet that our students can glue the bottles onto. 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. I liked this story because it shows the different emotions someone can feel and how to sort them to not bundle them all up together.I have been using this drawing activity for a prompt of how teens feel currently and having them fill out a second for how they desire to feel. They can either choose to share their picture and why they feel that way or can skip and turn in privately. The PDF version is a picture of the monster with text and graphics added over because I hand drew the monster, pieces, and bottles to attempt to keep as similar style to the book as possible - so it's not possible to share as they were drawn out in person. I love this book It was on a list of suggested books when I was taking my early childhood education classes.

These are all great things to notice and process along with how it feels in their bodies when the feelings are mixed up, any thoughts that might come up for the Color Monster, and the choices the monster may make when feeling all mixed up! 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. com/howto/guide/how-make-paper-mache) or if they would prefer to draw the Monster, this link to different Monster templates might help - https://teachingideas. The book identifies five feelings of happy, sad, angry, fearful, and calm, but I wanted to make sure if other feelings came up there would be space for them so I included eight.What you sent looks like a great picture of the resource, but the actual sheets that our students can use would help a lot. 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. Let me know what else you are looking for and I might be able to brainstorm a solution to your problem!

For the adventurous, they might want to mix in some jelly, glitter, spaghetti or even some shaving foam to experiment with different textures.

Me gustan mucho más este tipo de cuentos para usarlos en clase porque son más vistosos y captan muchísimo la atención de los alumnos.