This emotions bus resource is for pupils who have an special interest in buses. It is colourful, bright and engaging.
You can use this as an emotional register perhaps tracking throughout the day. You could use it as a talking point and teach emotions by placing different faces in each window. Can the pupil identify and label the facial expressions? There are lots of words included so the pupil can learn new vocabulary for the facial expressions that they can see. Ill could be sick, poorly and so on.
The bus template could be used just for drawing or writing in the windows. If laminated the pupil could use a whiteboard pen.
What is included in the emotions bus?
A bus template
25 emoji faces to cut out
88 Small feeling word cards
Examples of how to use
Can you label the feeling each person on the bus has?
The driver looks upset. What is the reason?
Why is one of the people angry?
Which person is sad?
Which feeling do you have? Where are you sitting on the bus? Can you point?
Can you put a happy face on the bus?
Can you put a sad face on the bus?
What other words could you use for the word sad?
Benefits of the emotions bus
It is fun and engaging
Pupils can learn to recognise facial expressions
They can learn to label their feelings and learn new vocabulary
Pupils will be able to identify and express why they feel like they do
Other uses for this resource
Print the PDF larger and make it up as a wall display, all the pupils who visit your room could add their facial expression to the bus.
These emotion apples can be used for an apple tree. Great for the Autumn term.
They all print on A4 paper ready for you to cut out and add to your tree. There are also a variety of coloured leaves to add to your tree and a black and white blank apple for pupils to colour and draw their own emotion if you want to make this an emotional register. They can draw the face on the apple and write the emotion on the leaf. Tree is not included.
Paint a simple tree shape on your display board or use brown paper to cut one out. Better still ask the pupils to help you paint or make it.
Included in the Apple Emotions Pack:
16 Red apples with emotions – happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised, disgusted, worried, confused, shy, calm, tired, bored, proud, frustrated, excited, and upset
A variety of coloured leaves for autumn
Blank apple for drawing an emotion face and writing the emotion
19 sheets in the pack
These are lanyard tabbed cards for identifying emotions.
The tabs on the side help find the emotion quickly.
These are two sets of Tabbed emotion lanyard cards. One is for uncomfortable emotions and the other is for uncomfortable emotions.
The comfortable emotions cover – happy, excited, calm, proud, brave and loved.
The uncomfortable emotions cover – sad, scared, worried, angry, embarrassed and disgusted.
Each set has a card with just the face and a card with the face and a simple scale.
This resource will help to develop children's growth mindset as well as help them risk assess a situation. Children need to look at their mistakes, find out what they learnt by that mistake, understand the consequences and have another go or don't have another go depending on what has been learnt. Equally children do need to assess the risks of an activity they are doing to make sure they do not hurt themselves and to give a bit more thought into what they are doing. They need to understand the consequences of their mistake.
Included in the resource:
A game board
18 mistake scenario cards
10 ideas for using the mistake cards
worksheets to go with those ideas
This resource is helpful for building a sense of identity and self esteem.
Instructions for making up the resource are included in the downloadable pack.
This resource explores lots of different emotions to allow children to see the connection their thoughts have with their feelings, physical sensations and actions.
When you think happy thoughts it makes you feel better both physically and mentally and your actions are more positive as opposed to when you think worrying thoughts or angry thoughts.
This resource, through exploration of these thoughts and feelings will give you a base to help children change their thoughts and see how that makes them feeling and act differently.
There are 40 sheets altogether covering 20 emotions. Girl clipart and boy clipart is used so you can choose which to use with the child you are working with.
222 Emotion word cards and 4 banners make up this resource. Fantastic for display or for working with children with social and emotional problems.
Use the cards:
Find an emotion word you don’t know the meaning of and find out!
Pick a positive emotion and use it in a sentence.
Pick a negative emotion and use it in a sentence.
Think about your day and pick out all the emotions you have felt in that day.
Make a collage of angry words.
Make a collage of happy words.
Make a collage of scared words.
Start a feelings diary and pick out your main feeling for that day. Write it down and explain why you felt that way.
Pick a card and draw the facial expression.
Pick a card and draw a picture of a time when you felt like that.
Pick a card and find all the synonyms of that word.
Pick a card and draw a comic strip of what happened when you felt like that, use speech bubbles and thinking bubbles to show what you were thinking or saying.
There are so many things you can do with these cards
Here’s our “Break the Ice Game” – a fantastic game designed to add warmth and engagement to the start of your sessions! Dive into a world of penguins and ice holes, where penguin cards holds captivating questions waiting to be explored.
It’s a great winter game on the run up to Christmas and beyond. It would also be suitable at any time of year so you will get lots out of this game.
Say goodbye to the chill of starting a session with a new pupil; our game adds warmth and enthusiasm, setting a positive tone from the beginning.
Pupils explore questions that encourage sharing and understanding, fostering a sense of connection within the group.
Included in the ‘Break the Ice Game’ pack:
A3 game board
90 question cards
9 blank cards if you want to write your own
A5 Certificate for completing the game
The teen affirmation workbook begins by offering a clear explanation of affirmations and their significance. It is vital for young minds to grasp the concept of positive self-talk and how it can shape their perceptions and attitudes.
The workbook helps pupils to craft personalised affirmations that resonate with their unique experiences and aspirations. Teens learn to transform negative thoughts into affirmations that inspire confidence and resilience.
Pupils will reflect on any negativity in their lives through self reflection and learn to flip these into positive affirmations. Pupils are encouraged to use their affirmations daily for 2 weeks and monitor their feelings over this time. They are then encouraged to reflect on any changes that have been observed over that 2 week period.
What’s included in the teen affirmation workbook?
Affirmations are… (what they are)
Affirmations can… (how they can benefit you)
Self reflection…(what are the negatives?)
Turning the negatives…(How to flip those negatives into a positive statement)
Your turn…(Practising how to flip the negatives)
Creating affirmations (advice on how to write one)
Example affirmations
Creating your own affirmations
Daily affirmation practice
Remember… (the importance of daily practice)
Keeping track…(A table for helping monitor feelings and any positive changes)
Reflection…(How have things changed over two weeks – question prompts)
Positive self-talk display pack for anxiety
Help children to change their thoughts when they feel anxious by displaying these thought bubbles in your classroom or area.
Print the banner as a poster in Adobe, you can choose how many sheets to print it over using the settings.
What is included?
How to change ‘Self-talk’ list
17 thought bubble suggestions
Positive ‘self-talk’ list
Positive ‘self-talk’ worksheet
‘When I feel anxious I can say’ banner
This is an anger support plan resource pack for older pupils who need help with anger. Perfect for ELSA SUPPORT. The plan is a useful reminder for them and others on what they need to look out for, do, or remember when their feelings of anger get too much. The resource is aimed at upper KS2 and Secondary. The plan is meant to be worked through with an adult. When pupils are angry they need that all important one to one or small group support. Helping pupils to manage their anger is the end result of all the work you do with them. The plan must be done with the worksheet pack .
Included in the anger support plan pack
Fillable form version of the support plan – pupils can fill this in on the computer
PDF form for printing and writing out by hand
9 worksheets working through all the points on the plan
3 information sheets with examples of thought challenging questions, assertiveness script and body signs
The 9 worksheets and activities included are:
Anger triggers
Body signs
What makes anger worse?
What do I need when feeling angry?
Where is my safe place?
Questions to challenge anger
What might distract me?
Who can I talk to?
What coping strategies can I use?
Emotions early years – Teaching children about emotions is the most fundamental thing you can do to ensure children become emotionally literate and will help them with that all important emotional regulation. This ‘EMOTIONS’ resource will help to do just that. The main part of the resource is a powerpoint show where you can introduce each emotion. This gives lots of opportunity to work on one emotion at a time and promotes lots of discussion.
This resource is aimed at early years but there are children that you may feel would benefit from this in KS1.
Children are learning to:
Recognise the emotion
Understand what it means
Label the emotion
Express the emotion
This resource consists of:
A powerpoint show with 20 emotions and an emotional register
A PDF of the show
20 ‘girl’ emotion sheets in black and white for colouring
20 ‘boy’ emotion sheets in black and white for colouring
20 ‘girl’ emotion fans
20 ‘boy’ emotion fans
This bundle of posters and worksheets will help you explore physical signs of 10 different emotions with your pupils. I have included a learning objective to go with each worksheet.
The pack contains the following:
10 Posters covering the emotions/feelings of Worried, happy, sad, angry, irritated, surprised, disgusted, embarrassed, tired and scared.
10 Worksheets covering their signs and sensations
10 Worksheets covering their physical appearance when feeling an emotion
10 Worksheets concentrating on different areas of the body for them to colour
8 Worksheets for coping skills.
9 pages of useful ‘All about me’ information. You can choose whether to do all the pages or just a few of them depending on the needs of the pupil you are working with. This is suitable from about 10-16 years old. Great for learning mentor, Teaching assistant or ELSA intervention.
Pages included in the ‘all about me secondary booklet’:
About me
Questions time
Personal qualities
Words to describe me
Body image
Staying healthy
Proud moments
Hobbies and interests
Social media
Worries that I have
All about my pets
Things I do to relax
My perfect day
Feelings
My future career
My friends
Things that make me happy at school
School rules
School feelings
How I learn best
Things I don’t like about school
Family tree
More about family
Home feelings
Family rules
Things that make me happy at home
Things I don’t like about my home
Circle of trust
Self-esteem is about how we value and perceive ourselves.
There are 24 sheets in the teen self-esteem pack covering the following areas:
Top strengths – What are the pupil’s top strengths?
A strength you wish for – What do they aspire to? What strength would they like?
Using strengths – How do they use their strengths?
Strength spotter – Do they recognise strengths in others?
Affirmations – read
Affirmations – write
3 good things today – What three good things have happened today? This is a daily practice that will boost wellbeing and self-esteem
Steps to success – read
Steps to success – write
Self love
Make yourself proud – What makes them feel proud?
Helping hand – How do they help others?
Fill your cup
Gratefulness – What are they grateful for?
Jar of positivity
Mood tracker – Track their mood daily
Selfie challenge
Social media feelings
A to Z of things that make me happy
A to Z of words to describe me
Wishes and dreams
Build relationships – What does a perfect friend look like? What qualities do they have?
Being assertive – read
Being assertive – write
The resource consists of:
a game board
42 scenario cards
8 worksheets
Explanation cards on being ‘RUDE’, ‘MEAN’ and ‘BULLYING’.
So many children and parents use the term ‘bullying’ incorrectly. This resource aims to teach the difference between being rude, mean or actual bullying.
Being rude is doing something unintentionally and doing it once. Being mean is doing something intentionally and doing it once or twice. Being a bully is doing something intentionally and doing it over and over again even when told to stop.
The scenario cards are a mixture of rude, mean and bullying situations. The cards can be used with the game board or with the worksheets. They will prompt lots of discussion on what bullying really means.
Children will explore intentional or unintentional behaviour, controlling behaviour, the victims feelings, and remorse or sorrow for the behaviour.
There is also a poster added as a free extra.
Starring me Emoji style can be printed as a booklet or you can use the sheets individually. My interpretation of the different emojis with worksheets to fill in. Lots of opportunity for discussion.
There are 40 emojis covered with 42 sheets altogether. The second page is a blank to enable it to be printed duplex and booklet style.
To be mindful of children of ALL ages who would benefit from an emotions check in I have created this resource. It is suitable for children as young as 3 or 4 and as old as 16 or even older.
The resources consists of:
14 base boards with different backgrounds
light skinned emotion faces
darker skinned emotion faces
emoji faces
small girl emotion character
small boy emotion character
This is a friendship display to support any social skills work you may be doing. It focuses on vocabulary around friendship. Pupils will learn about the positive qualities of a friend.
The display is bright and colourful and will enhance your ELSA area or classroom.
Included in the pack are: *32 Friendship quality display words *A frog poster *A banner that can be printed large using Adobe print settings and then pieced together *some bubbles to cut out to decorate your display * A cauldron which can be printed on A3 or larger *writing paper for the pupils with and without lines, with and without the frog clipart.