What is this emotion? How does our body feel when we feel angry/sad/happy? How does our face look?.Talk through each of the emotions on the wheel. Choose the one that best suits the age and developmental level of the child/ren you are working with.Īs you introduce the wheel talk about the fact that all emotions are helpful, even the big and overwhelming ones and that making an emotions wheel can help us to identify how we are feeling at any given time. There are three versions of the printable included below – from a simple 4 piece wheel to a more complex 8 piece version.
Teaching children emotional regulation involves helping them to identify what triggers big feelings, how their body feels as it responds and what they can do in the moment and this printable My Emotions Wheel is a great tool for doing just that. Helping children learn to recognise and cope overwhelming emotions is an ongoing process that certainly doesn’t stop when they enter primary or elementary school, in fact I would say emotional regulation becomes even more important in the vast social network of school.
