Activity for Children, Pre-teens and Teens
Squeeze out
clear glue or dish soap or both in bottle
(20% or 1/5 of bottle)
Fill rest of bottle
with warm tap water
(80 % or 4/5 of bottle)
Add glitter.
As much as you like.
Optional: A couple of drops of food coloring.
1. Take pictures of your child making different faces as they name different feelings. Print, cut, paste and write the feelings each face represents underneath the photo. Create your own poster.
2. Find different free images online. Print, cut, paste and write the feelings each face represents underneath the photo. Create your own poster.
3. Free download of feeling chart.
4. Watch movie” Inside Out”together and connect colors and themes for your jar. Movie trailer below.
“When you name it, you can tame it.”
What are you feeling?
Discover more about your feelings and increase emotional intelligence with this handy, printable resource from Gottman Institute developed by Dr. Gloria Wilcox Gottman Institute - Research Based Approach to Relationships.
“When a person has a reaction to something in their environment,
there’s a 90-second chemical process that happens; any remaining emotional response is just the person choosing to stay in that emotional loop.”
“If you continue to feel fear, anger, and so on, you need to look at the thoughts that you’re thinking that are re-stimulating the circuitry that is resulting in you having this physiological reaction, over and over again.”
- Harvard brain scientist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor (Ted Talk)