Gingerbread Emotions

Students can learn about basic feelings and emotions with these gingerbread feelings and emotions cards and playdough activity. This gingerbread activity will make a great winter or Christmas theme for students who are learning about emotions and feelings that are common to them.

What is Included:

There are 8 different gingerbread feelings and emotions cards for students to look at and view. There are also 3 different playdough mats for students to build faces on to express those same feelings and emotions.

How to Use:

The students will choose which of the 3 gingerbread mats they would like to use to build their faces on. They will then choose a gingerbread emotions card and attempt to recreate the feeling on their mat using playdough.

When to Use:

• Fine Motor Center - This feelings and emotions activity can be used in a fine motor center by simply placing the cards, mats and playdough in the center. Students can work independently or with a partner to complete these cards.

• Morning Activity - These mats and cards can be placed inside a morning tub or basket for students to work on as classmates arrive to class.

• Quiet Activity - These mats and cards make a great quiet time activity for students who do not nap.

• Small Group Activity - Teachers can pull aside small groups of students to practice identifying different feelings and emotions.

Skills Assessed:

These mats allow students to explore different feelings and emotions with a fun gingerbread theme. The added use of playdough adds a fine motor activity for students to build those hand muscles.

The gingerbread feelings and emotions cards are low prep. They just need to be printed and cut apart, lamination is optional for durability. The playdough mats are no prep. The should be laminated or placed in a page protector so the playdough does not stick to them.