Play Dough Feeling Face Cards

Have fun with play dough and teach feelings at the same time with these blank play dough feeling cards. There are 16 blank faces with hair, 6 without hair, and 2 different sizes for the ones without hair. Students can think of a feeling to create on their card or choose a feeling card-there are 8 different feeling cards. The feelings on the cards are excited, happy, proud, mad, scared, worried, disgusted, and sad. This resource can be used for individuals, small groups, centers in a classroom, or as a whole group. This resource is suitable for pre-k, kindergarten, first, and second grades. There is no reading required.

This resource is fully editable after accessing a copy of this Google slideshow. You can resize pictures or add more feeling cards or different feeling cards. There are directions included. First, read a story about feelings to your class. Then, decide which type of cards you would like to use, whether they are with hair or without. Be sure to laminate for durability. Invite students to decide on a feeling and then create that feeling with play dough. As an optional activity, you can print out the feeling cards which have the name of a feeling and an emoji on it-and students can try and recreate that particular feeling. There are many different ways to use this resource. This could be one station in a center's activity on feelings and emotions.