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.) In this story, yellow refers to happiness, red is for anger and blue is linked to sadness. Do you agree with those colour choices? Why? The colour monster book provides a lovely fun read with lots of talking points. You can try some of the below: How does music make you feel? Think of different songs/styles of music that make you happy, sad, angry etc.

These feelings monster writing activities are ideal for use during an 'All About Me' or ‘Ourselves' topic to encourage children to develop an understanding of their own feelings and those of others. Try providing the writing worksheets alongside pencils for children to use independently. They might like to practise with some Mark-Making Activity Ideas for Early Years to help get in to the swing of writing. The sheets could also be used as an adult-led PSED or literacy activity. 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? Play Simon Says with the Color Monster’s help and visually act out a series of emotions! For example, using the little pink monster displayed below, the teacher will call out, “The Color Monster is in love”, and students will give themselves or a friend a big hug! Remember to read The Colour Monster Goes to School and try our related ideas too! Teaching Ideas and Resources: EnglishWe meet the colour monster at the start of a day that is threatening to be rather confusing for him. This baffled little monster is in a bit of a frenzy over his feelings. 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.

This feelings monster worksheet is ideal for use during an 'All About Me' or 'ourselves' topic to encourage children to develop an understanding of feelings and emotions. For more Autism emotions activities, look here. You might also like this Restorative Practice Activity or this lovely Palette of Feelings Art Activity with Feelings Monsters. More resources like this Recap on the story of ‘The Colour Monster’. Parents may want to read the story again with the children or invite the children to tell them the story, using their own home-made monsters from last week’s resources. What about other people? Together can you think of how other people in the family feel and how they show it? What colour are their emotions?

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Social-emotional learning is just as important as all the other topics you teach. Making time for it can be a bit of a challenge, so here are some of Twinkl’s top tips to help you encourage social-emotional learning: 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? Think of other emotions and choose colours that might represent them (e.g. frustration, disgust, envy). What started out as a daunting day, turns in to a vibrant and educational journey for the colour monster. Together with the little girl they have organized his emotions and they are no longer tangled up. His world is much clearer. Encouraging freedom of expression, especially at a young age, is very important. This activity encourages learners to use their imagination and tap into their own emotions. Guide learners on how to draw a funky monster by first giving a demonstration, and then handing out art supplies and letting them take the wheel as they create their own.