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Emotions

Express Yourself!

Learn how our words can make others feel with a reading of “Words are Not for Hurting” by Elizabeth Verdick and create a story book about how others have made you feel with their words.

Helping children to name their feelings is the first step toward developing an emotional vocabulary they can use to identify, share, and understand their feelings and the feelings of others.

IDEAL AGE: 2+

Yoga Landscape with Yo Re Mi

Yo Re Mi helps us create a landscape with our bodies! Rise like the sun, grow like a palm tree, and pretend to be a rainbow.

Combining music, yoga, and mindfulness activities supports a child’s physical, social, emotional, and mental health.

IDEAL AGE: 2+

Superpowered Yoga — Yo Re Mi

Superpower your day with Yo Re Mi yoga to build physical and mental strength!

Yoga-based movement, breathing, and mindfulness practice helps build concentration, strength, flexibility, balance, social-emotional learning, as well as breath and body awareness.

IDEAL AGE: 1+

B is for Bold with AlphaKey Club

Create your own people paper chain and find out what it means to be bold with Alphakey!

Being bold means gaining confidence, standing up for what you believe in, and expressing yourself!

IDEAL AGE: 5+

Inside Me, Outside Me Portraits

Explore social justice issues like racism or gender stereotypes by creating your own paper plate portrait.

Children as young as three years old have been shown to exhibit gender stereotypes, racial prejudice, and preference for their own race. This activity helps children to better understand the complex issues related to prejudice and stereotypes, revealing why it is important to understand and talk about biased assumptions.

IDEAL AGE: 3+

Dance your Feelings with American Ballet Theatre

Try a virtual ballet class with American Ballet Theatre, listen to a story, and scribble dance your feelings.

Helping children understand and label strong emotions helps them learn to manage their feelings and actions.

IDEAL AGE: 3+

A Storytime with The Color Monster by Anna Llenas

The Color Monster explores a colorful rainbow of feelings and emotions. Create your own color monster storyboard!

Sometimes emotions can be hard to share and understand. Naming feelings and having open conversations will help your child be able to recognize and manage their feelings.