Here’s hoping this activity brings you and your clients some superpowers to help untangle those messy, chaotic, and confusing feelings! The children have all listened to the story ‘The Colour Monster’ by Anna Llenas. It is a Story about a Colour Monster who is a mix of colours. His friend, a little girl, takes him through each colour to help him understand how he is feeling.

The Colour Monster makes a big mess before lunch. Can you design a poster to teach him how to wash his hands nicely?We have used the idea in the story to help the children with their emotional development. There are large colour monster displays containing pictures and words in each classroom so the children can add their name card to the emotion they are feeling. At a point during the day, an adult will offer to discuss how the child is feeling, particularly if the emotion is a negative one. Cut out the pictures and fill the jars with items that represent the different feelings in the story. Taking time to validate our learners makes them feel seen, heard, and cared for. Label an assortment of jars using a series of emotional faces. Over the course of a week, have your learners drop items, or their names, into the jar that they feel best represents their feeling that day. At the end of the week help them tally up the items and analyze their predominant emotion.

Let’s explore colour some more through messy play! The children might like to experiment with paint or water and food dye by mixing colours to see what new colours they can make. What colours can they create and what feelings do they link with their new colours? At the start of the story, the Colour Monster is feeling confused. When have you felt confused? What did you do in this situation? What can we do when we feel confused in the future? This animated video is wonderful for introducing the ways in which we lose our cool. It helps little minds understand that it’s perfectly normal to do so from time to time, but also encourages them to think about how they might rein in those big feelings.For a 'how are you feeling today' area. Displayed with all children's name and they decide how they feel each morning when they come in and if they change their 'feeling' they can move their name into a different pot throughout the day. SPEAK Phonics is a brand new systematic synthetic phonics scheme (SSP) and provides everything that you need to support the teaching & learning of phonics from Nursery to Year 2. Speak Phonics HUB Put your little one’s memory skills to the test with this sweet monster card match-up! Shuffle the cards so that the pairs of emotions are separated. Allow learners to study the card placement before you flip them upside down and then challenge them to find the matching pairs.

Introduce the colors and feelingsin the story. Talk about different feelings you may have in different situation. For example, ask "Have you ever felt sad? Tell me about it". Then introduce this story about a monster whose feelings are all mixed-up! "He doesn't know how he feels. Let's find out more about Color Monster's feelings." See how becoming an ULTIMATE member will save you hours upon hours when planning your lessons and bring your classroom to life! The displays give children the language to help them describe and express how they are feeling which is such an important part of their emotional development. Write a new book in this series in which the Colour Monster goes to another new place. What adventures could he have? Have your students identify basic emotions as they match assorted colors and emotions to the correct monster. Once they’ve matched everything correctly, they can spend time coloring in their worksheet and, in small groups, discussing when they feel certain emotions.Before reading the story, imagine what might happen. What do you already know about the Colour Monster from the original book? Teacher’s Pet have proudly partnered with the creative guys over at TeachRex, to bring you a HUGE, brand new collection of creative and cross-curricular resources to support their dinosaur, dragon and gorilla workshops! View All Resources This book is a wonderful story about a “Color Monster” who is full of mixed up colors and emotions. A little girl takes the monster by the hand and gently helps the Color Monster untangle and separate out all of these feelings and put them into jars.

Add googley eyes to any art projectsto make fun monsters. Here is an example of a great googley eye monster: Coffee filter monsters For an even better way to find KS2 resources, discover tailored suggestions, and much more - visit the KS2 resource HUB! GO TO KS2 HUB Let me know what else you are looking for and I might be able to brainstorm a solution to your problem!Retell the story from the Colour Monster’s point of view. This could be in the form of a diary. You could also write Nuna’s story about the day. Sometimes feelings get… all tangled up. This can be confusing and sometimes we need help untangling them and sorting them all out. Enter “ The Color Monster” by Anna Llenas! This book is AMAZING and as I talk about here and here bibliotherapy is such a wonderful practice that is so adaptable to provide as a therapeutic approach in all sorts of settings – office, in home, at school, and of course Tele-Play! Make a list of words that the author links with each colour, e.g. yellow = bright and light, blue = gentle and alone. Can you think of synonyms for these words? Review story vocabulary. Here are some words in the story you may want to define: emotions, jumbled, separate, shines, twinkles, happiness, sadness, lonely, washes over, alone, burns, stamp out, unfair, disappear, fear, afraid, courage, shadows, calm, quiet, swaying, breathe, peace, different. (I would choose just a few.)