A Box Full of Feelings helps children remain or get in touch with their inner world of feelings, recognising emotions in themselves, accepting them, naming them, and developing a more differentiated awareness of them. Gradually, they will also learn to take the perspective of others, understanding perceptions and emotions, feeling the impact of their actions, and realising that people don't experience events in the same way. All of this is at the heart of emotional intelligence.
Key Features
- Ages: 2-7
- Contents:
- 48 situational pictures (11 x 11cm) each basic feeling has 12 pictures, with a short story and questions on the reverse
- 16 pictures of the emotion figures (11 x 11cm)
- 4 posters with the emotion figures (42 x 29.5cm)
- 17 finger dolls
- 4 carry-around houses of emotions
- 4 masks depicting each feeling for children or adults to wear
- A wheel of emotions with spinner (for games)
- CD of emotive music
- Instruction manual including photocopiable activities
- Sturdy storage box with carry handle
Additional Information
The impact of using the box is significant: practitioners report how children are more alert to the utterances of feelings, how they use a more differentiated vocabulary concerning emotions, how their intuitions become more refined, and how their role-taking capacity expands. Because they can express feelings in a more appropriate way, their capacity to cope with painful experiences gets stronger, resulting in inner calm and serenity. This is even reflected at group level.
