Kid-Focused Blog Healthy Bodies Include Healthy Minds: What Color Do You Feel Today?
By: Jessica
Engaging our families during this time is a priority of Kroc Greenville. From Kroc Blogs to the Slow Down Showdown to Online Fitness Videos, we are working hard to maintain relationships and help you maintain active and healthy lifestyles.
Active minds are just as important as active bodies. Often times, children can make better sense of their experiences and emotions through books. This can be a confusing time for everyone; enjoy stories and art together to help children (and adults) process some of these emotions.
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The Color Monster wakes up feeling confused one day. This story can help children describe their emotions through colors. Activity Idea: Color your own monsters with crayon colors that help describe how you are feeling.
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss is filled with engaging rhymes and colorful images to help children learn about emotions. Activity idea: Use watercolors to paint a collage, adding more and more colors each day. Add yellow when you are feeling happy. Add blue when you are feeling down.
The Way I Feel helps children manage complex feelings of disappointment, silliness, frustration, boredom and more. While this story doesn’t specify colors with emotions, you can work together to pair colors with emotions. Ask children, “What color do you think represents happiness?” Remember, there is no right or wrong answer.
After reading one or more of these stories, go on a color hunt outside. Can you find the colors below? Print out this image to help children while they are outside exploring colors outside. Ask open-ended questions: “Oh wow! You found a yellow sunflower. How does it make you feel?”
Looking for other fun and colorful ideas?
- Be healthy! Make a healthy snack using colorful fruits and vegetables. Try these caterpillar kabobs!
- Make homemade playdough and let your child pick the color.
- Play “I Spy” in different rooms of your home and outside.
- Learn the names and colors of different types of flowers in our area. Try using US Wildflowers.
- Learn the names and colors of different types of birds in our area. Try using South Carolina Wildlife Federation.
- Be active! Play hopscotch; make each square a different color and write a “feeling word” to match the color.
Written by Jessica (Business Manager at Kroc Greenville)
Jessica is the Business Manager at Kroc Greenville. She holds an undergraduate and graduate degree in Early Childhood Education, and has worked with children and families in the nonprofit sector for over ten years. Jessica has experience overseeing both business and educational initiatives for community-based organizations.
