Small children have big feelings long before they have words for them. Weather is a picture they already know: a sunny feeling, a cloudy one, a rainy one. This pack uses those pictures to help your child notice, name and share how they feel, with no right or wrong answers.
Your child finds their feelings weather and finishes a sentence for each kind, then invents a weather of their own. Next they look out of the window at the real sky, tick what they see and draw it beside the sky that matches their mood. A body outline to colour shows where a feeling sits, with a checklist of body clues like a fast heart or a fluttery tummy. To finish, a big breathing leaf guides a slow breath in up one side and out down the other, with a spot to tape a real leaf.
The youngest point to pictures, tick the sky and trace the leaf with a finger while you breathe together. Older children say feeling words, draw both skies, finish the sentences and count five slow breaths on their own. Every page has an easier way in and a stretch, so siblings can play side by side.
What’s inside
- 1Cover: what's inside and a little log for your feelings day
- 2Before we talk feelings: a one-page guide for grown-ups
- 3My feelings weather: sunny, cloudy, rainy and your own weather
- 4Sky watcher: tick the real sky and draw it next to your feelings sky
- 5How does my body feel? Colour where you feel it and tick body clues
- 6Breathing leaf: trace in and out with a finger and count five breaths
Why this matters
Putting a feeling into words is a first step toward handling it, and simple pictures like sun, cloud and rain give children and grown-ups a shared language for it. Noticing body clues helps children spot a feeling early, and slow breathing, with the breath out a little longer, can help many children feel calmer. Every feeling is allowed; these pages are for calm moments, at your child's pace.
Age bands
Every activity page has an easier and a stretchier way in, marked with these bands:
- Sprout 2–3
- Seedling 3–5
- Sapling 5–7
Letter is the standard paper size in North America; A4 is used almost everywhere else.