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. 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. 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? For an even better way to find KS1 resources, discover tailored suggestions, and much more - visit the KS1 resource HUB! GO TO KS1 HUB Think of some questions that you would like to ask the Colour Monster about his first day at school. How might he respond?

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. Remember to read The Colour Monster Goes to School and try our related ideas too! Teaching Ideas and Resources: English See how becoming an ULTIMATE member will save you hours upon hours when planning your lessons and bring your classroom to life! SOLO Account Usage: Solo accounts are for use by one teacher/user in a single class setting only. If you are looking to use our resources or any of our schemes such as WellbeingWednesday, Buddy Bots or THINK Maths in a whole school or multiple class setting then a 'Whole School' membership will be required. This is regardless of how many teachers or users are actually 'delivering' the content. Any content intended for use in a whole school or multiple class setting must be supported by a whole school membership.Use this colourful display banner to create a display all about feelings and emotions. The display banner is editable enabling you to enter the text of your choice. 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 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. Before reading the story, imagine what might happen. What do you already know about the Colour Monster from the original book? Let me know what else you are looking for and I might be able to brainstorm a solution to your problem!

A ‘I feel … when?’ worksheets (for children to design their own colour monsters and think about when they feel different emotions.The Colour Monster doesn’t know what school is. How would you explain it to him? How would you describe all of the things that you can do at school? The Color Monster by Anna Llenas teaches abour big emotions in a simple way for young children. In the story, an adorable monster has mixed-up feelings and the author helps to sort them out. Happiness is like the sun, anger is a burning fire, and calm is like the leaves swaying in the wind. Young children may not be able to tell you exactly what they are feeling, but they can use the concepts in this book to help express themselves. If you’re looking for a more advanced activity to pair with the reading of this wonderful book, then look no further! This activity requires students to listen to the story and then spend time completing this fill-in-the-blank worksheet; inferring the monster’s feelings from what they have heard. It’s important to remind young learners that, at times, we may feel more than 1 emotion, or may not even be able to verbalize how we’re feeling at all! This hands-on activity enforces this notion visually by having learners attach colorful felt squares to a Color Monster cut-out. The Colour Monster makes a big mess before lunch. Can you design a poster to teach him how to wash his hands nicely?

Invite the children to discuss their feelings. Sometimes we can feel a bit mixed up like the Colour Monster. It might help to have a friend, older brother or sister or a trusted adult help the child to sort out their feelings at those times, just like the Colour Monster and the little girl. Talk about the things which make the children feel happy, sad, angry, fearful and calm and loved.

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The next sheet is all about taking time to separate out and honor each feeling. With the My Feeling Jar worksheet you can clearly identify each feeling experienced and how much of each feeling. You can go deeper with young people and identify triggers, how they felt it in their bodies, warning signs of these feelings, and choices that might be helpful vs unhelpful to honor what is going on for them over the week. For an even better way to find KS2 resources, discover tailored suggestions, and much more - visit the KS2 resource HUB! GO TO KS2 HUB Don’t forget to explore our ideas and resources based on the original Colour Monster book too! Teaching Ideas and Resources: English Cut out the pictures and fill the jars with items that represent the different feelings in the story.

By using cardboard, yarn, felt, a marker, and glue, little learners can design and craft their very own Color Monsters! They can use these creatures to put on an at-home, or in-class, puppet show and better yet; use the color monsters to help them verbalize different emotions. 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! 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. The banner shows illustrations of colourful monsters that represent different feelings and emotions. Invite children to make their own feelings monsters to display alongside the banner and talk about the different feelings and emotions the monsters represent. Ideal for EYFS and KS1 classrooms to create a PSED display. Add googley eyes to any art projectsto make fun monsters. Here is an example of a great googley eye monster: Coffee filter monsters

Practice drawing faces that show different emotions. Can you draw a happy face? Can you draw an angry face? Use a mirror to see how your facial expression can change to show emotions. 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. Introducing HUBS - a brand new way to browse our THOUSANDS of resources! At the core of our new HUBS system are our 3 key stage specific hubs for EYFS, KS1 & KS2 and our "HUB-HUB" where you can find links to all of our content specific hubs such as "Wellbeing Wednesday", "Grammar Circus" and much more! Popular HUBS right now... 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 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.