What Do You Think Happened? Emotions Worksheets

Understanding emotions is an integral part of social-emotional intelligence. This unique worksheet set helps children read facial expressions and situational cues to infer feelings. Featuring 18 worksheets showing children with varied happy, sad, angry, fearful, disgusted, surprised, embarrassed, proud, and calm moods, the sheets prompt creative empathy and emotional literacy.

Each page displays a child reacting to an event with an emotion. Children need to look at the emotion and decide what may have led to someone feeling this way for example reacting to a spilled ice cream cone, hiding a broken vase, receiving an award or struggling with schoolwork, etc. Children are to draw in the box what they think may have led to someone feeling this way.

These engaging worksheets build skills in emotions identification, perspective-taking, and situational analysis. Counselors can incorporate them into social skills training or self-awareness lessons. Teachers may use them for class discussions during social-emotional learning. Parents can try them at home to nurture empathy about life’s ups and downs.

This worksheet set offers diverse starting points to explore the richness behind emotions and cultivate compassion.

Included in this resource are 9 color versions and 9 black and white versions that allow children to color in their own interpretations.