Gumball Machine Printable Cut and Paste Identifying Feelings Worksheet

This gumball machine printable activity is an engaging, low-prep, and  hands-on activity for your students. It includes 3 cut and paste worksheets that focus on matching emotions to facial expressions, identifying feelings based on their name, and relates feelings to different situations.

These printable cut and paste worksheets will  help your students develop social emotional skills and improve social awareness by allowing them to identifying different emotions. Each worksheet has a variety of emotion faces that are used as “gumballs”. Students will cut out the emotions gumballs and glue them into the gumball machine, matching them to the correct place.

This activity is perfect for students with autism, and students who are beginning to label and identify their feelings. It also helps  students practice their fine motor skills through cutting, pasting, and coloring. These worksheets also help to promote discussion about different situations that may make us feel these emotions.

What Are The Benefits?

- Enhances social emotional skills and self-awareness

- Enhances fine motor skills

- Helps students practice emotional identification 

- Promotes  understanding of emotions and feelings and the situations that cause them

- Interactive activity to promote engagement

- No-prep!

- Promotes creativity and individuality

Perfect for:

• Pre K, kindergarten, and 1st grade

• Students with learning disabilities

• Students with autism

• Individual sessions

• Small groups

• Classroom lessons

• Busy binder activities

• Morning meeting activities 

Helpful Tips:

1. Print out the worksheets and give one to each student 

2. Review the different emotions and discuss what situations might elicit those feelings.

3. Instruct students to cut out the emotions gumballs and paste them to the matching feeling/situation.

4. Encourage students to color the faces and gumball machine to make it their own and as creative as they would like

5. Talk about the different emotions and feelings as they complete the worksheets.

6.. Use the completed activity as a handy reference for future work with emotions