Draw the Faces for Four Feelings

Read each direction aloud and talk about every picture before your child answers: what is happening, and how would you feel? Make the faces together in a mirror. There is no wrong feeling, so if your child's answer differs from the key, ask them to explain it.

Six feelings pages for Pre-K and Kindergarten. Children circle the feeling face that matches each picture, match pictures to feeling faces, cut and glue happy and sad pictures into two groups, and decide if they would feel happy or sad in six everyday moments. Two more pages have them draw a face for each of four feelings and trace feeling words while saying each one aloud. Four pages come with an answer key.

Yes, both. We made it for Kindergarten social-emotional learning, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with feelings and emotions. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Happy, sad, mad and scared are a common starting point, and many children soon add words like excited, tired and surprised. These sheets stick to feelings children can read clearly on a face.

Talk about each little scene together and ask your child whether they would feel happy or sad, and why. There is no wrong feeling, so talk about any answer that differs from the key.

Social-emotional learning, often called SEL, is how children learn to understand their feelings, get along with others and make good choices. For 4 to 6 year olds that means naming feelings like happy, sad and mad, sharing and taking turns, using kind words, calming down with a few deep breaths, and trying again when something is hard. These worksheets practice each of those with pictures, not reading.

Name feelings out loud in everyday moments, yours and theirs: you look frustrated, the tower fell down. Then use a picture page to practice, like circling the feeling face or matching a picture to how it would feel. Children who have words for a feeling can tell you about it instead of only showing it, which makes the feeling easier to handle together.

Slow breathing is the easiest to teach. Belly breathing and five-finger breathing give a child something to trace or touch while they breathe in and out, and stop, breathe, think gives them three steps to remember. Practice when your child is already calm, so the strategy is familiar before a big feeling arrives, and set up a calm down corner with a few comfort items.

Yes. The pages are written for Pre-K and Kindergarten. Each one uses pictures and a short direction that a grown-up reads aloud, and children answer by circling, matching, coloring, tracing, drawing or cutting and gluing. The only writing is tracing a few friendly or feeling words.