We’re in a season where I receive multiple requests each day for play dough. While most of our time with play dough is simple free play, I wondered if I could occasionally use that play dough fascination for some sort of play based activity to nurture emotional growth.
So, I created these printable play dough mats to create faces together. We referenced our emotion books to pick out emotions to make. If you haven’t made one, you could simply ask them what emotion they’d like to make.
Even if the faces don’t quite capture the emotion accurately, it’s a helpful way to recognize the components of each expression. It was kind of intriguing to observe the links between emotions by changing one facial feature at a time. Discussing in detail what different emotions look like is a helpful way to teach empathy to children, because it aids in their ability to recognize feelings in others.
After we worked on a few faces together, then the boys both enjoyed creating wild hair styles to accompany each of the faces.
You can find the free printable below:
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