Preschool activities emotions: 45 Fun Social Emotional Activities for Preschoolers

45 Fun Social Emotional Activities for Preschoolers

Social-emotional learning is gaining traction in being recognized as an important part of early childhood curriculum. This type of learning is presented in the form of both one-on-one and group activities.

Social-emotional activities for preschoolers are wonderful tools to teach young children about their own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.

Below are some social-emotional activities that are great for the classroom, as well as the home.

1. Emotions Discovery Bottles

This set of emotions discovery bottles is Inside Out-themed, however, the set of bottles you make with your preschooler does not have to be. Have your child pick out the ingredients for each bottle and make corresponding faces to put on each one.

Learn more: Laly Mom

2. Feelings Check-in Chart

Making a chart about feelings is a helpful social-emotional tool for preschoolers. You can hang it in your classroom and, throughout the day, accompany students to the chart to practice identifying their feelings.

Learn more: Pre-K Pages

3. Stomping Out Big Feelings with Dinosaurs

Stomping out dinosaur-size feelings is a fun social-emotional activity that helps children identify their feelings and express them in productive ways. It’s also a great proprioceptive activity, much like heavy work.

Learn more: The OT Toolbox

4. Setting Up a Calming Corner

You are probably familiar with calming corners/peace corners. They are areas in a classroom where preschoolers can go to have some quiet time – on their own terms.

Setting this area up with your students and sharing ideas on calming items and activities to use in the calming corner is a wonderful social-emotional activity.

Learn more: The Montessori-Minded Mom

5. Make a Set of Worry Dolls

Preschool-age children are not so different from adults in that some of them are worriers. Crafting a set of Worry Dolls is a great social-emotional activity that pairs well with the book, Silly Billy, by Anthony Brown.

Learn more: Happy Hooligans

6. Making Emo Dolls

Using cardboard rolls, preschoolers can help make these cute emo dolls. Each doll expresses a different emotion.

They can be used for role-playing by children to help them identify their own feelings and develop empathy for the feelings of others.

Learn more: Danya Banya

7. People Playdough Mats

This is a fun social-emotional activity for preschoolers. Using playdough, children get to make a person that represents them physically and assign emotions to them.

Viewing the facial expressions they make helps them identify their own emotions, as well as others.

Learn more: Picklebums

8. Make Emotions Masks from Paper Plates

Making emotion masks from paper plates is a fun idea that can help preschoolers express their own emotions and identify others’ emotions. Since many young children are still in need of emotional vocabulary, this is a no-pressure, informal, and fun way to introduce it.

Learn more: No Time for Flashcards

9. Talk About Emotions During Morning Circle

Morning circle is an opportunity to talk about the date, weather, what’s going to happen during the day, and to do music and movement activities. It’s also the perfect time to talk about emotions and come up with some healthy strategies students can use throughout the day.

Learn more: No Time for Flashcards

10. Calming Sensory Bins

Sensory bins are a great social-emotional tool for preschoolers. They provide sensory feedback that can have a calming effect on young kids.

Preschoolers can visit a sensory bin on their own when they are feeling overwhelmed or in groups where they can talk with each other about how the bin activity makes them feel.

The lavender sensory bin linked below is just lovely.

Learn more: The Chaos and the Clutter

11. Story Telling Social Stories

Preschoolers have active imaginations and they love telling stories. Storytelling is introduced in the early childhood learning environment to help prepare children for reading.

It’s great for social-emotional learning, as well.

Learn more: How We Learn

12. A Sticky Cutting Tray of Emotions

Cutting trays are appealing to preschoolers – an unrestricted space where they can cut and create. Add a social-emotional aspect to your students cutting trays by giving them magazines with close-ups of faces for them to cut out and reconstruct.

Learn more: Picklebums

13. Feeling Matching Game

Playing a matching game with feelings cards put a social-emotional spin on the classic game of memory. There is room for teachers to get creative with the “feelings challenge” when preschoolers make a match.

Learn more: Kiddie Matters

14. Emotions Guessing Game

This emotions guessing game is a lot of fun. It helps develop social-emotional skills in large or small groups.

After practicing with this game, preschoolers will be able to more confidently and accurately identify their own emotions, as well as the emotions of others.

Learn more: Childhood 101

15. Emotions Sorting Mats

Presenting an “emotions sorting mat” to preschoolers helps them better understand that different emotions can present in a variety of ways, but still be recognizable.

Learn more: File Folder Heaven

16. Play “Catch” a Feeling

This activity is so much fun and it’s also incredibly easy to set up. All you need is an inflatable beach ball and a marker.

Learn more: Pam Dyson

17. Social-emotional Board Game

Making a social-emotional board game is a way for teachers and parents to get creative, as well as focus on the emotional skills with which their preschoolers are struggling.

Learn more: Kristina Marcelli

18. Emoji Feelings Faces

Using emojis to express emotions is an internet trend that seems to be here to stay. These cute little faces are actually great social-emotional learning tools for kids, too.

Learn more: Kiddie Matters

19.

Happy and Sad Face Sorting

Sorting faces based on emotions is a fun social-emotional activity that helps preschoolers identify social cues and learn empathy. It also helps children understand that not every expression of negative emotion involves crying.

Learn more: Having Fun at Home

20. Paper Plate Feelings Spinner

This is a neat social-emotional activity for preschoolers. Making a paper feelings spinner starts out as a fun craft and ends up as a social-emotional tool that can be used again and again.

Learn more: Meaningful Mama

21. Color By Emotions by Code

Coloring emotions by code is a fun activity that helps children develop fine motor skills and learn colors – all while teaching them how to identify and name their own emotions.

Learn more: Frogs and Fairies

22. Scribble Art

Scribble art is a social-emotional activity that gives children the chance to identify, name, and express their emotions all at once.

Learn more: The Art of Education

23. Mega Block Feelings

Making Mega Block feelings is an extremely simple activity to set up. Preschoolers can match facial features to create emotional expressions.

Learn more: Twitchettes

24. Story Stones

Story stones have a lot of opportunities for social-emotional activities for preschoolers. One such activity is painting facial expressions and having preschoolers piece together faces and name the corresponding emotion.

Learn more: Where Imagination Grows

25. Create a Flipbook

Preschoolers have a difficult time understanding that emotions are fluid – that they can be sad, but not be a “sad person”. Creating a flipbook that lets young children identify the feelings they are having at the current moment can help them understand this concept and apply it to others.

Learn more: The Mad House Mummy

26. Make a Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down Jar

A thumbs-up, thumbs-down jar is a really neat activity that helps preschoolers consider how their actions can make other people feel in a fun, no-pressure, no-shame way.

Learn more: Things to Share and Remember

27. Making a Self-portrait

This is another fun self-portrait activity. This one has preschoolers look in a desk mirror while they express an emotion. Then, they are to draw a portrait of themselves.

Learn more: Still Playing School

28. Fishing for Feelings

Playing a fishing game to learn social-emotional skills is a perfect idea for preschoolers. This game can be played in so many different ways and as a one-on-one activity, or as a group.

Learn more: Little Page Turners

29. Feelings Hop

Preschoolers benefit from social-emotional learning as much as they do from gross motor activities. Combining the two is a great idea for social-emotional activities for preschoolers.

Learn more: Kiddie Matters

30. Make a Feelings Jar

Making a feelings jar is a beautiful idea for teaching emotional regulation and social-emotional skills to preschoolers. This activity works well in groups or as a one-on-one activity.

Learn more: Mosswood Connections

31. Feelings Slap Game

This is a fun card game that teaches social-emotional skills by helping preschoolers identify and name different emotions. This game can be played in small groups or emotions can be called out to students at their spots on the rug.

Learn more: Kiddie Matters

32. Rainbow Breathing

Improve focus, self-control, and mindfulness in the classroom while practicing breathing techniques that will also improve motor skills.

Learn more: The OT Toolbox

33. “I Can Show Kindness”

Worksheet with images that gives suggestions of ways students can show kindness in their home and community.

Learn more: Teachers Pay Teachers

34. The Gratitude Game

Using colored sticks or candies, students will choose a color, then have to express gratitude related to the color. It gets students to appreciate little things and others in their daily lives.

Learn more: Seattle’s Child

35. Practice Social Interaction

Help kids learn how to work through specific social scenarios by using social stories to practice these interactions.

Learn more: Whimsy Workshop Teaching

36. Impulse Control Cards

Great for preschool children who are impulsive. This is a simple game that uses images and speech to “stop and think” before calling out the answer.

Learn more: The Dabbling Speachie

37. Good Friend

This sort and paste activity teaches students the difference between a good and a bad friend through concrete examples.

Learn more: Keeping My Kiddo Busy

38. Spatial Awareness Puzzle

Let students show their artistic expression while learning about spatial awareness. Using an outline of a simple shape and objects found in nature, children will create a puzzle that fits the objects inside the border.

Learn more: Little Pine Learners

39. Reading Body Language

This game uses images to help students identify the meaning of body language.

Learn more: Annie’s Classroom

40. Calming Kit

Create a calming kit for children to use when they are upset. The kit will teach them how to self-regulate and build calming skills for when an undesirable feeling comes.

Learn more: Perfection Pending

41. Learn Through Literacy

Teach children about the concept of charing through the read-aloud text, “The Doorbell Rang”, which also introduces them to basic math skills.

Learn more: Pre-K Pages

42. Identify Body Feelings

Children identify an emotion and then use images to relate it to how it makes their bodies feel. It helps students not only be conscious of their emotions, but also aware of how their body reacts.

Learn more: The Responsive Counselor

43. Alphabreathes

This book is a fun way to teach a variety of breathing strategies to students created by a psychologist and appropriate for toddlers. It relates the different strategies to a familiar object and letter of the alphabet.

Learn more: Mindful Schools

44. Puppet Play

Children learn about strong emotions through interactions between the puppets. You can also have them create their own puppets that they identify with.

Learn more: Raising Children

45. Build A Flower Emotions

Support students in identifying different emotions by using this adorable sort and match game.

Learn more: Frogs and Fairies

Frequently Asked Questions

What are some social-emotional activities?

The above list has many great social-emotional activities. In addition to the above activities, role-playing with a caregiver also teaches many important social skills and emotional skills.

How do you teach emotions?

Emotions can be taught in many ways. Books, conversations, and social-emotional activities are all great ways to teach emotions.

What are examples of social activities?

Social activities are activities such as group art projects, pretend play involving serving or helping, and circle time group activities.

Emotions and Feelings Preschool Activities, Games, and Lessons

My feelings and emotions preschool activities, games, lessons, and printables This month’s theme explores two subjects close to children’s health and well being: Feelings and Emotions. Children participate in literacy activities that help them build vocabulary and word recognition skills around topics that relate directly to their daily lives and experiences. Let your preschool and kindergarten children explore what it means to have feelings via movement, singing, drawing, writing, matching, talking, and listening. 

Samples of our more than 90 emotions preschool and kindergarten activities, crafts, games, and lessons available inside our KidsSoup Resource Libary:

Themes and Projects

My Feelings

Monsters and Halloween Feelings

Crafts

Friendship Heart Painting

Funny Faces Pumpkins

Happy and Sad Face

Activities and Lessons

Emotions and Feelings Rhymes and Songs

Emotion Intro

Faces and Emotions Flip-Book

Games

Emotion Faces Matching

Making Faces Folder Game

Feelings Bingo

Movement

We’re Going on a Monster Hunt

Emotions Movement Rhyme

If You’re Happy and You Know It (Emotions)

Booklets and Other

Emotions Word Wall

Emotions Photo Cards

My Many Moods Emergent Reader Book

Worksheets

Emotions Write

Feelings Chart

Halloween Ghost Drawing

Free Emotions Activities, Games, and Printables

Introduce and let children explore the different feelings they can experience on any day. Our activities help children identify and name their emotions and feelings. Use the activities during your All About Me theme:

All About Me
My Feeling and Emotions

Emotions Learning Center Ideas 

Pretend Play Area

Place different size mirrors all around the room. 

Fine Motor Skills

Print out a monster face without facial features and let children use play dough to create different facial expressions and mood. Let children share with you how the monster feels.

My Feeling Preschool Activities

Today I feel

Read the book: Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day

After reading the book prompt students to discuss a variety of feelings. Hand out a small paper plate to each child and encourage them to make a feeling puppet. Have them color or cut out and paste a feeling face on their paper plate. Decorate with yarn annd paper scraps for hair and ears. Attach a large craft stick to the back. Let children share their feeling puppet with the group. Re-read the book and let the children with the matching feeling hold up their puppet.

Happy and Sad
Hand out a mirror to each child. Talk about how we feel when we’re happy and how it shows in our face. Sing the song “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” Let children look in the mirror and make a happy face.

If you’re happy and you know it, show a smile.
If you’re happy and you know it, show a smile.
If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it,
If you’re happy and you know it, show a smile.

Repat by children looking in the mirror making a sad face. 

If you’re sad and you know it, cry BOO-HOO.

Feeling and Emotions Craft
Hand out a paper plate and a mouth piece to each child. Drill a hole to the bottom of the paper plate and attach the mouth piece with a brass fastener. Let children decorate the face. Sing the song again and let children show the matching feeling on their puppet’s face.

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

My Feelings and Emotions Lesson and Printables (available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

Sorting Out Emotions Activity

What you need:

Several magazines or magazine pages

White construction paper

Scissors

Glue

What you do:

Label several sheets of blank white construction paper with emotions words: happy, sad, mad, surprised, shy, worried, silly, proud, etc. Give children magazines or magazine pictures to look through for images of people that match each of the words. Let children cut out the pictures and glue them to the appropriate pages. The pages can be made into a classroom book once they have been filled with images.

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

Feelings Matching Game
Print two copies of the emotion cards and cut out. Let children match the pictures.

Matching Game: Place cards face down on the table. Let children turn over two cards at a time. If the cards match, they can keep them and get another turn. If the cards don’t match, the next player gets a turn. 

How Are You Feeling Today?

Place feelings picture cards in a row on a board. Let children pick out their name cards. Point at each emotion card on the board and name it or ask children to name the emotion. Discuss why they think the child in the picture feels that way. Ask children how they feel today. Let children place their name card below the emotion card that fits their feeling.

Sing the “I Have Feelings” song:

I Have Feelings
(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)

I have feelings (point to self)
So do you (point to children)
Let’s all sing about a few.
I am happy (make a big smile)
I am sad (frown)
I get scared (cross arms and make scared face)
I get mad (make fists and stomp feet)
I am proud of being me (hands on hips, shoulders straight, smile)
That’s a feeling too, you see.
I have feelings (point to self)
You do, too (Point to children)
We just sang about a few.

Guess How Much I love You My Emotions Activities

Book:Guess How Much I Love You

Read the book and discuss with children how they feel when someone tells them “I love you.” Sing the song:

I love You
(Tune: You Are My Sunshine)

I love you mommy
My dearest mommy
You make me happy
When I am sad
I want to tell you
I really love you!
When I’m with you, I am so glad!

Change to any other family member.

Go Away, Big Green Monster! Activities, Lessons and Printables

Book: Go Away, Big Green Monster!

After reading the book, invite children to share with the group things that scare them (storms, snakes, etc.). Then say the following rhyme for each thing:

A Monster Goes Like This and That
By Jolanda Garcia

A monster goes like this and that (walk feet in front of you)
It’s terrible (big) (use arms out at side)
BUT, I’m not scared of that! (shake head)

A storm goes like this and that (move from side to side)
It’s terrible (loud) (stomp)
BUT, I’m not scared of that! (shake head)

Preschool Activities: 

Media Root

If You’re Happy and You Know It (Gross motor skills)

If You’re Happy and You Know It
Adaptation from Original by Author Unknown

If you’re happy and you know it, show a smile.
If you’re happy and you know it, show a smile.
If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it,
If you’re happy and you know it, show a smile.

Continue with additional verses for other emotions:

If you’re mad and you know it, stomp your feet.
If you’re surprised and you know it, say “OH MY.”
If you’re sad and you know it, cry BOO-HOO.
If you’re silly and you know it, make a face.
If you’re scared and you know it, shiver and shake.

Finish the song with: If you’re happy and you know it, shout HURRAY!

Event for children of senior preschool age on the theme “Journey to the Land of Emotions”.

– Teacher’s newspaper

The development of the child is closely related to the characteristics of his feelings and experiences. Emotions are an indicator of the state of the child. Often children are captivated by emotions because they cannot control them. This leads to impulsive behavior, complications in communication with peers and adults.

Purpose: to consolidate children’s knowledge about the basic human emotions (joy, fear, surprise, anger).

Objectives:

1. promote awareness, understanding of emotions;

2. increase the stability of emotional states;

3. help build self-confidence, develop self-awareness;

4. Help the child to respond to existing negative emotions (fear, anger, etc.) that impede his full personal development;

5. To enrich the emotional sphere of the child.

Stages of the lesson:

1. Greeting ritual.

2. The main content of the lesson is a set of psychotechnical exercises and techniques aimed at solving the problems of this lesson (game therapy, finger gymnastics, group discussion. )

2.      Lesson reflection — lesson evaluation.

3. Farewell ritual.

Lesson duration: 20-25 minutes.

Age of participants: Senior preschool age.

Equipment: a letter in an envelope, pictures of gnomes with different emotions; gnome transformer toy, tape recorder, audio recording of music, sandbox with colored sand.

Preliminary work:

– acquaintance with basic emotions: fear, joy, surprise, anger.

– listening to music.

– conducting psychological games and exercises.

Lesson progress:

1. Greeting.

The children enter the room and stand in a circle.

Teacher-psychologist: Hello guys. I’m glad to see you! How is your mood? (Answers of children).

Today we received a letter from our kindergarten. The envelope says from the Queen of Emotions for children of kindergarten No. 14. Let’s open the envelope and read what is written there. (Open envelope.)

The guys invite us to a magical land of emotions. What emotions do you know? (Answers of children).

Well done!

And fairy-tale heroes who also live in this fairy-tale country will help us to distinguish them. They will tell us about different emotions: joy, fear, surprise, anger. We have an unusual journey ahead of us, we are going to a magical land.

Greeting “Country of moods”

We are heading to the country of moods,

Where we will laugh, be sad, be surprised.

With the heroes of this magical land

We will meet at every lesson.

We are waiting for adventures, fairy tales, games,

Various tasks for a new friend.

Well, are you ready? Then it’s time for us!

Let’s say greetings to each other in a circle.

(Children send greetings around the circle).

Here we are in a magical land.

2. Main body.

Guess, kids, Both girls and boys,

What emotion

Will I show you now?

Joyful music sounds. The teacher-psychologist shows a picture of a gnome with an emotion of joy.

Teacher-psychologist: That’s right, it’s a joy.

Exercise “I am happy when…”. Everyone in a circle completes the phrase: “I rejoice when …”.

Teacher-psychologist: Well done! And now we’re moving on.

Look at the gnome.

Name me an emotion…

Angry music sounds. The teacher-psychologist shows a picture of a gnome with the emotion of anger.

Psychologist: That’s right, it’s anger.

Finger gymnastics “Let’s make peace”

Two thumbs argue:

(Children clench their hands into fists, bring them together and place them in front of the chest.)

Who is the main of the two?

(They stretch their thumbs up and begin to bend and unbend them.)

Let’s not let a quarrel happen

And let’s reconcile them right there.

(They interlock their thumbs with each other.)

Another dwarf is coming towards us.

Look, what is he like?

Scary music sounds. The teacher-psychologist shows a gnome with the emotion of fear.

Teacher-psychologist: That’s right, it’s fear!

Exercise “Fear has big eyes.”

Teacher-psychologist: And now let’s play with fear. Imagine that you have a big, huge fear. (Children spread their arms wide to the sides). Everyone who is afraid has big eyes from fear. (Depict large round eyes with the help of hands). But now the fear is waning. (Children move their hands). And then it disappears altogether. (Shrug their shoulders and shrug their hands in bewilderment.) Look at each other and make sure that no one else has big eyes and therefore none of you are afraid of anything, because the fear has disappeared. Smile at each other.

Well done guys, you got over your fear.

Look at the dwarf,

Determine the emotion…

Unusual music sounds. The teacher-psychologist shows the gnome with the emotion of surprise.

Teacher-psychologist: That’s right, it’s a surprise!

On the merry, on the green Horizon Islands, According to scientists, Everyone walks on their heads! They say that the Three-Headed Sperm Whale lives there, He plays the piano himself, He dances, he sings!

In the mountains on a scooter Gobies ride there in a tomato! And one scientist Cat even drives a helicopter! There, pears grow on willows, Chocolate and marmalade, And on the sea, as on land, Hares jump, they say!

In a green meadow

Many flowers everywhere.

They give us smells.

Are you ready to smell them?

Here’s jam, chocolate,

Smell of sweet soda.

And you will find flowers here

Even with the smell of carrots.

Many wonderful smells

Look everywhere there.

Aromas

have arrived straight from your dreams.

(B. Zakhoder, excerpt from the poem “On Horizontal Islands”).

Teacher-psychologist (draws the children’s attention to the picture with the surprised gnome): Please remember what smells were discussed in the poem?

Smells are amazing, unusual and memorable. And what else?

Exercise “Amazing drawings” – the author’s development.

Teacher-psychologist: Guys, I suggest you now go to the sandbox in pairs and draw your surprise – what you remembered when I read the poem to you.

Children come in pairs to the sandbox and draw their surprise in the sand. Each child tells what he drew.

Teacher-psychologist: Well done, you did an excellent job. And now I propose to go to the beach and lie on the sand.

Exercise “On the Beach”

Let’s lie quietly on the carpet with our backs. Close our eyes and listen to the sound of the sea.

An audio recording of auto-training is turned on, the children are located freely on the carpet, the teacher-psychologist helps to relax.

Now you can open your eyes and sit down. We are in kindergarten.

So the lesson ended,

The hour of farewell has come.

Tell me frankly

Did you like it here?

Children’s answers.

3. Reflection of the lesson

Teacher-psychologist: Let’s remember what emotions live in a magical land?

(Children remember).

4. Farewell ritual.

Our adventure has come to an end.

The Queen of Emotions instructs you:

Be kind, without whims

And give you surprises.

(Children are given gifts).

It’s time for us to go back

It remains to say goodbye!

Children shake hands in a circle.

Teacher-psychologist: Thank you! You are great today. Goodbye.

References:

1. The program of psychological and pedagogical classes for preschoolers “Flower of seven flowers” (5-6 years old), Kurazheva N.Yu., Varaeva N.V., Tuzaeva A.S., Kozlova I.A. . St. Petersburg: Speech; M.: Sfera, 2011.

2. Handbook of a teacher-psychologist kindergarten, MTsFER, M., No. 7 2013

3. Minaeva V.M. The development of emotions in preschoolers. Lessons. Games. Handbook for practitioners of preschool institutions. – M.: ARKTI, 2001.

4. The world of children’s emotions. Children 5 – 7 years old, Kryazheva N. L. – Ya.: Development Academy, 2000

Evgenia Taran, teacher-psychologist of the kindergarten of the combined type No. 14 of the city of Bataysk, Rostov region

In the attached file – stimulus material.

Event-seminar “Emotional development of preschool children”

WORKSHOP-WORKSHOP ON THE TOPIC:
“Emotional development of preschool children”

Dear colleagues! Today we
let’s talk with you about the emotional development of preschool children and its
importance as an integral part of the formation of a harmoniously developed personality.

important place. In psychology, emotions are processes that reflect personal
the significance and assessment of external and internal situations for life
person in the form of experiences. Emotions, feelings serve to reflect
subjective relationship of a person to himself and the world around him. Entire life
human is built on feelings, sensations, emotions. Knowing the reality
a person relates in one way or another to objects, phenomena, events, to other
people, to your personality. Emotions are inseparable from personality because they are more
everything is characterized by its essence, character, individuality. Emotions are big
meaning for a person, because they give rise to various reactions of the psyche to
object or situation. The cultivation of higher emotions means personal
development of its owner.

Goldfish exercise

Purpose: to identify expectations and hopes
teachers from work at the seminar.

In a fairy tale, a goldfish is always
grants wishes, and invites each participant to write their wishes on
time of the seminar on a sticker (no more than three), voice them and attach stickers with
inscriptions on the board.

The following options are available
expectations:

– Get a new and useful
information on the problem;

– Exchange work experience;

– Be in a friendly atmosphere and
etc.

Exercise “Plate of water”

Purpose of the exercise: to develop
mutual understanding in the group, understand and discuss the patterns of occurrence
mutual assistance.

Task: a group of participants, silently with
eyes closed, passes a plate of water around.

As a result, the transmission develops
ways of communication, searching for the partner’s hands until the plate is handed over,
touch alerts.

Theoretical part.

Emotional development in
early childhood.

Emotions continue
play a significant role in ensuring the mental well-being of the child
early age. The child does not yet know how to control his emotions, restrain
unwanted manifestations. Therefore, all the activity of the child is clearly
emotional, colored by positive or negative experiences.
The adult directs the child’s emotional life. When the baby is upset, the adult
encourages, switches to another activity; fatigue, irritability,
too violent manifestations of emotions indicate overexcitation of the nervous
system, the need for rest comes to the fore, then the adult
soothes the baby, creates conditions for sleep.

Emotions begin
play the function of foresight. The child is looking forward to a pleasant event,
however, this expectation often causes exhaustion in the child, which manifests itself
hyperactivity of movements, their lack of coordination, tearfulness.
Therefore, an adult should behave calmly, insistently demand compliance
child of the daily routine, the usual routine.

Mastery
object-manipulative games make this type of activity a source of
various experiences of the child. He rejoices when the performance of actions
succeeds, the game uses a variety of interesting objects for the child;
gets upset if the objective action is unsuccessful (the cup fell under the table,
the plastic jug cracked, the cardboard cube crumpled). Preferences Arise
among the toys, of which there are those with which the child especially often and for a long time
plays. The emergence of motivating ideas in the child leads to the fact that
the absence of a favorite toy causes him to cry. Similar reactions are observed
if the child forgot the toy somewhere, lost it, and the like.

Negative emotions
child is often associated with manifestations of a crisis of 3 years, incorrectly constructed
communication with an adult. So, the child avoids contact with an adult, closes,
if he is not given space to take the initiative in the game,
substantive actions, he is forbidden to independently perform one or another
household process.

Emotional development
child in senior preschool age

Intensive
the development of the personality of a preschooler determines profound changes in his emotional
sphere. If at an early age emotions were directly conditioned
environmental influences, then in a preschooler they begin to manifest themselves in his
relation to certain events.

Due to appear
mediation of emotions, they become more generalized, conscious,
manageable. The child shows the ability to restrain unwanted emotions,
direct them in accordance with the requirements of adults and up to the acquired norms
behavior. The child is guided by “good” and “bad”, “possible” and “impossible”, everything
more often “I want” gives way to “must”. Senior preschooler while holding back emotions
uses his existing ideas about proper behavior, especially
when it is associated with a game role.

Origin
personality of a preschooler occurs on the basis of the ability to subjugate social
important motives (must) with their impulsive desire (want). An important new fact
emotional sphere of a preschooler become worries about a possible
reactions of adults to his actions and deeds: “what will mom say?”, “father will
scold”. The child’s perception of good and bad in their own behavior
serves as a source of ethical feelings, associated with good and evil.

In my drawings
the child conveys the attitude towards positive characters, drawing them in detail
images using a variety of colors. Evil heroes kid
depicts a limited color gamut, in the form of amorphous images – this can
be just a black spot or something like a tangled ball of dark threads.

Discuss and reinforce
main points on the board.

The psychologist reads out summaries
statements, the participants fix on the board, finding them in their working
materials.

Exercise “Magic
bag.”

Instruction:

Colleagues! I suggest you take out
one piece of paper from a magic bag, which will tell you what we as teachers
needs to be done for the emotional development of our pupils. Pull and
read out.

So, education
emotionally mature person, her experiences and feelings, starting from the first years
life, remains an important pedagogical task, since the emotional
attitude towards the surrounding world leads to the goal, the achievement of which will be
used the knowledge and skills acquired by the child.

Ability to
emotional experiences is manifested immediately after the birth of the child, and
The period of preschool childhood is considered the “golden age” of emotional life. AT
during the first six years, the foundation for the development of emotional and sensual
spheres of a person, which is the key to his normal mental development,
guarantees of growing up a harmonious personality.

For a complete
emotional and value development of preschoolers, teachers should know not
only the individual characteristics of the development of each child, but also what
it is necessary to pay attention in each age period.

Process
elimination of deviations in the emotional sphere of a preschooler is difficult and lengthy.
However, systematic comprehensive work in this direction gives
positive developments. Developing children’s emotions, creating conditions for receiving
them as many emotionally positive experiences as possible in a collective
games, communication, creativity, teaching the child to regulate his behavior under
influence of emotions, find the best way out of conflict situations, you can
to ensure that the child will eventually enjoy communication
with peers and adults. Positive communication skills will become a habit
the child’s faith in his own strength will appear, he will learn to accept, understand and compare
their peers.

Exercise “We train emotions”

a cloud, an angry person, an evil sorceress.

Smile like: a cat in the sun,
the sun itself, Pinocchio, a cunning fox, a joyful child, as if you saw
miracle.

Get angry like: a child who has
they took ice cream, two sheep on the bridge, a man who was hit.

To be frightened like: a child who
lost in the forest, a hare, saw a wolf, a kitten, at which a dog barks.

Express fatigue as: dad after
work, a person lifting something heavy, an ant dragging a big fly

a heavy backpack, a child who did a good job helping his mother, a tired warrior
after the victory.

Exercise “Fairytale
vernissage.

Purpose: to activate figurative memory
and creative imagination, develop the speed and flexibility of thought, the ability to
talk non-stereotypically.

Psychologist: “We all come from childhood. And
we always remember with love and tenderness the fairy tales we heard at home, in the nursery
garden, at school. After all, a fairy tale is the basis for the development of emotionality. Fairy tale gives
joy for both adults and children. Therefore, now we will perform the exercise “Fabulous
vernissage. So let’s get started.”

In what famous fairy tale is gray
a surly individual carries out an insidious plan to kill two people, and
only thanks to the timely intervention of the public everything ends
Good?

(Little Red Riding Hood.)

according to their social status, the heroes occupied in turn the premises created in
unusual architectural style. And everything would be fine if he didn’t return to the house
its former owner with his bodyguard. Here the heroes of the fairy tale had to leave
illegally occupied territory.

(Teremok)

about an athlete who goes to a steeplechase competition.