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At the beginning of the school year, it is fun to do an all about me theme with your preschool and early elementary-aged students. Usually, during those first couple of weeks of speech, you are getting to know your students, and incorporating identifying emotions goes well with this theme! If you read any feelings or emotion books with your students, you need to pair this emotions craft for preschool and kindergarten students in speech therapy! But doing an emotional speech and language unit is great any time of the year, and this feelings craft for preschoolers, and kindergarten is low prep and fun!
The best part of doing this feelings paper plate craft is that it uses supplies you probably already own or don’t have to spend tons of money on! Here are the art supplies for the emotion craft:
Have your students make dots of each emotion color on the paper plate. You can visually show where students can start and stop by making dots with a pencil or marker into four parts. Then, have your students glue their emotion pictures onto the different color sections. Attach a clothespin to the paper plate and allow students to move the clothespin to the emotion they are feeling. Here is a demo on my Instagram account that you can see for reference.
Make your speech therapy lesson plan complete with an emotions book to pair with your feelings craft for preschool and kindergarten-aged students. If you use the zones of regulation, this craft would work well with that curriculum.
Here are some books that would work well with this emotions craft for speech therapy:
The Way I Feel by Janan Cain
Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis
What I Like About Me by Allia Zobel-Nola
For more books that would pair well with teaching the different emotions, The OT toolbox has a nice round-up of book recommendations.
When making crafts in speech therapy, it can be tricky to target all the speech and language goals. Here are some ways you can use the emotions craft for preschool and early elementary speech and language goals:
How would you use this craft in your speech therapy sessions? I love that this can be used as a tool in the classroom for kids to share how they are feeling.
