The Color Monster Emotions Activity: Free Printable

Inside: This free, printable The Color Monster Emotions Activity is a fabulous activity for developing emotional intelligence with children in the early grades.

The Color Monster Emotions Jar SE Learning Activity

About the Book

We are long time fans of The Color Monster book by Anna Llena – with it featuring on our 21 Best Books about Feelings and Emotions and 101 Social Skills Books for Kids booklists and one of our earliest Social Emotional Learning posts – 4 Ways to Boost Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence.

From the publisher;
“One day, Color Monster wakes up feeling very confused. His emotions are all over the place; he feels angry, happy, calm, sad, and scared all at once! To help him, a little girl shows him what each feeling means through color. As this adorable monster learns to sort and define his mixed up emotions, he gains self-awareness and peace as a result.”

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It is a fabulous book for initiating social emotional learning activities with children in the early grades and the basis for this fun social emotional learning activity.

The Color Monster Emotions Activity: Free Printable

Prepare the activity

Print out the empty jar page (one per student) and feelings/monsters pages (one copy provides enough squares for ten students).

Sort the emotion squares by color. Separate out the monster squares.

The Color Monster Emotional Intelligence Activity

The Color Monster Emotions Jar Activity Instructions

Read The Color Monster book to students. Take another look through the book – noticing the color used to represent each emotion and how the illustrator use texture and imagery to represent each emotion?

The Color Monster SE Learning Activity

Distribute an emotions jar page to each student. Have each child choose a monster and paste it into the top of their jar.

Look again at the book, focusing on one emotion at a time. Have each child choose a square from the corresponding pile of colored emotions squares to paste into their jar.

Invite the children to label each square with the name of the corresponding emotion.

Color Monster Emotions Jar Activity

Download Instructions: The Color Monster Emotions Jar Activity

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The Color Monster Emotions Jar Activity

One Comment

  1. Miranda Varney says:

    Christie,
    The Color Monster is one of my absolute favorite stories as a Pre-K teacher to talk with students about emotions. Often I have students name how they would feel in different situations, but I love all of the different hands-on activities you have listed. I can’t wait to try these techniques with my students when we get back from Thanksgiving Break!
    – Miranda Varney

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