Emotions and Feelings Playdough Mats | Calming Corner

This is a fine motor activity for students to practice different emotions and hairstyles with playdough. Create a My Feelings Book as a calm down activity or practice whole group in a social emotional lesson. Students can find diverse portraits of people to create feelings/emotions. This could also be a fun fine motor center where students roll a dice to create the feeling on the playdough mat.

Display the digital anchor charts of real, nonfiction photographs of feelings and hairstyles throughout the room.

What's included:

• 24 diverse portraits (blank AND with an emotion)
• My Feelings Book front cover
• 3 digital anchor charts (feelings, hairstyles and emotions)
• 2 dice templates of different emotions
• Multiple portraits for students to practice multiple emotions on one page
• Blank portrait for students to create hairstyle AND emotion

How to Use:

• Option One: Use as a center or whole group. Students will look at the picture of the face in the corner and recreate it on their person
• Option Two: Students will create their own emotion on the playdough mat. This could be used to practice facial expressions or even in a calm down corner!
• Option Three: Print front cover and create a book with the playdoh mats. This could be used as a center or in the calm down corner