Wednesday Activity!

Today we will discuss feelings! Things are changed for many kids during this pandemic, there is no school and we can not meet in-person either in our TAP programs. You all know emojis so I thought it would be easier to talk about feelings using these:






Choose three emojis that describe how you are feeling and draw your own picture! Alternatively you can put three of them on the page and draw using them, or one at the time, you can choose to include the emoji on the picture, have fun! Send us your pictures! We will post them! Please let us know if you like our activities we will love to hear your feedback! Thank you, TAP Team!

About feelings;
Feelings are messages that tell us what is going on, they tell our body and mind what we are needing to know. They are real and tell us truth about what we experience at the moment. All feelings are good. The comfortable feelings are sometimes called good feelings like happy or glad, and uncomfortable feelings like angry sad are named bad feelings, but they are all good because they tell us what we need to know. We want to use them to respond to different situations (outside) or thoughts (inside) that we have in our heads. When we recognize our feeling, we can then have information to take steps to respond. Then we can release the feeling and let it go so feelings like anger do not get stuck inside us. Feelings change and that’s good. Sometimes noticing the feeling is enough for us to observe, and let it go.  It is good to know the names of feelings: here are some: angry, sad, mad, hungry, thirsty, happy, glad, irritated, anxious, nervous, scared, hurt, energized, calm, content, joyful, quiet, loud, relaxed, stressed, uncomfortable, comfortable. When we call out our feeling to ourselves, we may feel better. Sometimes it is good to ask ourselves what are we feeling? The answer may not come right away but if we wait, it will eventually. It maybe few feelings at that time and they may feel mixed up. That’s normal. Feelings are normal and they are good. Sometimes we need to respond to our feeling for example when we are tired, we need to rest, when we are thirsty, we need to drink, when we are angry we have a problem we need to think, when we are scared we may need to ask for help. Sometimes when we can just recognize a feeling and we will always feel better.