Dear reader,
As we have said before, we are focusing on feelings this week. It actually started by accident when we were talking about activities we wanted to do, and both of us mentioned activities that had to do with emotions. We just decided to make a week of it! Today’s feeling activity is a good game to help get wiggles out while also thinking about “others” and their feelings.
It’s a pretty simple game, but that makes it fun! Roll the dice, and act like the animal if it felt like what is on the feelings dice. I even made this free printable to go along with it!
I just printed mine off on regular white paper, but I highly recommend cardstock, because by the end of the game, our dice were pretty hashed. And I just have to vent my frustration at how awful Elmer’s Gluesticks have become. It’s a brand new gluestick I bought for back to school and it is sooo worthless. Doesn’t glue anything. Therefore, I also recommend tape instead of glue. Super frustrating.
Anyway, I put a lot of work into this activity, so I’m glad the preschooler loved it. I’ve never designed animals on the computer before, but now I think it’ll be fun to make more!
She played with them while the twins napped, so it survived their little fingers, and I loved her budding acting skills. An angry elephant stomped through my living room. A sad monkey swung his arms in despair.
It was fun to think about how an animal would behave when it was feeling surprised or scared or angry. I may have even gotten in on the action.
What do you think? What would a happy flamingo do? Or a sad penguin?
