The Colour Monster

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Anna Llenas es licenciada en Publicidad y Relaciones Públicas por la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y graduada en Diseño Gráfico por la Escuela Llotja. From music lessons, to lunchtime, to making new friends, the Colour Monster’s first day of school is filled with exciting new adventures.

The children might like to experiment with paint or water and food dye by mixing colours to see what new colours they can make.I try to be very transparent with what is in the free download and include a picture of both of the worksheets - again to be as transparent in what is included in this free download. Are some feelings darker (like pressed down harder when drawing) and what feeling are more prevalent? I have tried this on multiple computers so I am thinking the way that it downloaded for you is an individual computer issue (ie both of the worksheets should not be on the same page and are not when I access my copy).

All online references have been selected on an illustrative basis for the relevant potential learning activities. 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. He soon meets a young girl and together they embark on a journey, exploring all the different types of emotions. Overall, I really appreciate how this book tackles the tricky issue of engaging with our different emotions using fun, child-centred characters. I am organization obsessed, coffee loving, playful therapist who is showing up for life in the north woods of Minnesota.

This post contains affiliate links, so I may earn a small commission when you make a purchase through the links on this site. 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. It is a truly fabulous way of encouraging children to acknowledge their emotions, alongside explaining feelings they may or may not have already experienced. One is the intro but each of the handout sections has their own page (ie Color Monster is fully on one page and the jars are fully on another).

They can either choose to share their picture and why they feel that way or can skip and turn in privately. When I am reading this with young people after I will pause, ask them what they noticed, and most of the time go into a Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy activity about feeling identification and levels! Parents may want to read the story again with the children or invite the children to tell them the story, using their own home-made monsters from last week’s resources.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. For the adventurous, they might want to mix in some jelly, glitter, spaghetti or even some shaving foam to experiment with different textures.

Here’s hoping this activity brings you and your clients some superpowers to help untangle those messy, chaotic, and confusing feelings!While that is one way to feel sadness, there are so many others ways to be sad, and so many other behaviors to express sadness.