Emotional Awareness: Activity Center
Help your kids get to know themselves better with these fun activities.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness
Work with your child to decorate a box that is kept on the table you eat at regularly.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness
Create a list of simple items or experiences that make you and your child laugh, smile, or that bring a sense of pleasure.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness
Select various food/snacks, such as Goldfish® crackers, yogurt or fruit. Eat one of the items you selected and notice all the different tastes and textures.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness
Get a piece of poster board and write "For This I Am Grateful" in big letters across the top.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness
Find colorful objects around the house, such as Goldfish® Colors crackers, jelly beans, colored blocks or beads.
Ingredient: Empowerment, resilience, emotional awareness, hope/goal
setting, optimism
Learning how to make good decisions and to problem solve is a way to build mastery skills.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Resilience, Empowerment
You can help your child to develop the skill of emotional awareness by showing them that you are interested in how they feel—and by talking about your own feelings as well.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Empowerment, Optimism
Leading by example is a great way to help make expressing gratitude a part of your family's daily life.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Empowerment, Resilience
Help your child communicate and work through a grudge with a set of simple circles and a positive attitude.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness
Pick a feeling and work with your child to make a collage that illustrates that feeling.
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Hope, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Help your children to take stock of and clean out the "mental clutter."
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness
It doesn't feel good to be frustrated, and sometimes the feeling of frustration is so strong that it makes it hard to continue with the game or task.
- Pre-K and Younger
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
Ingredient: Optimism, Resilience, Empowerment, Emotional Awareness
Encourage your whole family to create and display a list of activities that bring them joy.
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
- Grades 3-5
- Grades 5 & Up
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness
At least once a week, take a 5-minute "beauty detour" with your child.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness
Pick a park or street in your neighborhood and go on a 15-minute nature sense walk.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness
Music and dance are great ways to help express feelings.
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness
You can use everyday wooden blocks to help your child learn how to cope with frustration.
- Pre-K and Younger
- Kindergarten - Grade 2
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness, Optimism, Empowerment
Rather than always focusing on the "ers," like better, stronger, healthier, create a list of items that you and your family already have in abundance.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness
Help your child discover as much as they can about the good things happening in their lives by using open-ended questions that encourage long responses.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness
Find a photograph that captures a happy experience.
Ingredient: Optimism, Emotional Awareness
Invite a few other moms and their kids to your house for a "savoring party."
Ingredient: Emotional Awareness
Write down feeling words on pieces of paper. Take turns picking a slip of paper and then acting out the word written on it.
