Monster Moods Cards: Helping Children to Talk About and Express Emotions and Feelings
Monster Moods is a set of beautifully illustrated playing cards designed to support emotional literacy in children and young people. Seven colourful monsters embody seven common difficult emotions: anger, fear, jealousy, loneliness, restlessness and sadness. With accompanying game ideas, online activities and downloadable posters, Monster Moods can be used to facilitate work with a young person in recognising, understanding, labelling, expressing and regulating their moods and emotions.
The Resource includes:
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- 42 Monster Mood cards and guidance on suggested ways to use them
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- Coping with my Monster Moods worksheets
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- Printable feelings vocabulary chart and Monster Moods fan to encourage children to name it to tame it (Dan Siegel)
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- Eight printable posters to promote emotional literacy in small group work
Designed for use in groups or on a 1:1 basis by teachers, professionals and parents, the cards can be used independently or alongside the storybook How Monsters Wish to Feel. Monster Moods is a playful and non-directive approach to talking about, accepting and validating a young persons big feelings.
Intended for use in educational settings and/or therapy contexts under the supervision of an adult. This is not a toy.