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Monday 15th June 2026
Understanding Smile Power Day in EYFS & KS1
Let's spread some happiness and share a big smile! 😊✨ Smile Power Day is a special day celebrated every year on June 15th. It's all about celebrating the wonderful feeling we get when we smile and when we make someone else smile. A smile is a powerful tool—it can show someone we're happy, it can help a friend feel better, and it can even make us feel good inside! This day reminds us to be kind to ourselves and to others, and to use the simple power of a smile to brighten our own day and the days of those around us.
For early years settings, nurseries, preschools, childminders, and Year 1 and Year 2 classrooms, this day provides a wonderfully positive and crucial theme for exploring emotions and feelings, mental health, kindness and friendship, and personal well-being. It’s about empowering children to understand their feelings and the feelings of others, fostering empathy, and teaching them how to build positive connections. This day offers fantastic planning ideas and inspiration for engaging activities & invitations that truly resonate with young minds, making learning about emotional intelligence and kindness wonderfully heart-warming!
Why Is Learning About Smiling & Emotions Valuable for Young Children?
Integrating Smile Power Day and themes of emotions, kindness, and mental well-being into your practice with young children (aged 0-7) helps with social, emotional, and personal development.
Fosters Emotional Intelligence: Helps children recognise, understand, and talk about their own feelings and the feelings of others.
Promotes Positive Mental Health: Encourages children to think about what makes them happy and how to feel good.
Builds Empathy & Kindness: Teaches children how to be a good friend and how a small gesture, like a smile, can make a big difference.
Enhances Social Skills: Gives children tools to connect with others and build positive relationships.
Encourages Self-Expression: Provides opportunities for children to express their feelings through drawing, music, and play.
Engaging ‘Smile Power’ Activities for Smile Power Day (EYFS & KS1)
Let's celebrate Smile Power Day by exploring emotions, kindness, connection and wellbeing. These planning ideas, provision enhancements and learning opportunities encourage children to recognise and express their feelings, build positive relationships and discover how small acts of kindness can help brighten somebody's day.
Many of these early years and year 1 activities can be supported by our dedicated ‘Mental Health’, ‘Emotions and Feelings’, and ‘Kindness and Friendship’ resources.
Here's some inspiration for celebrating Smile Power Day in your setting. The following ideas may be adapted for various EYFS and KS1 settings. In EYFS, these ideas are best viewed as invitations to explore and enhancements to provision rather than activities every child is expected to complete. Practitioners may choose to follow children's interests and conversations about emotions, friendships and wellbeing, using these resources flexibly. In KS1, some ideas may also be used within more structured teaching sequences where appropriate. Printable resources to support the following ideas may be found further down this page.
(Please use your own discretion and knowledge of your children to ensure appropriateness of each activity or enhancement and safety concerning any materials given and activity undertaken. Smile Power Day is not about encouraging children to be happy all the time. Instead, it provides opportunities to explore the value of kindness, connection and emotional wellbeing while recognising that all feelings are valid and important.)
😊 Exploring Emotions & Wellbeing
Smile Power Day provides a wonderful opportunity to help children recognise, name and talk about feelings.
Children might:
Explore different emotions through discussion and play.
Share how they are feeling today.
Learn that emotions change throughout the day.
Develop vocabulary to describe feelings.
Recognise that all emotions are acceptable and useful.
Resources on our ‘Emotions and Feelings’ page such as Emotion Cards, Emotion Fans, Basic Emotions Fans, Emotion of the Day Displays, All About Me Feelings Station Displays, How Are You Feeling Today? Playdough Mats, Draw Emotions, Write Emotions, and Draw Yourself Smiling Activity Sheets can help support these conversations.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create a feelings check-in station.
Add mirrors to encourage children to explore facial expressions.
Use puppets to act out different emotions.
Create an emotions investigation area with books and photographs.
Encourage children to share feelings through drawing and mark making.
Explore how emotions can change in different situations.
🌟 What Makes Us Happy?
Children benefit from recognising the people, experiences and activities that help them feel positive, safe and connected.
Children might:
Talk about things they enjoy.
Share favourite memories and experiences.
Discuss activities that help them feel calm or excited.
Explore what makes different people happy.
Celebrate similarities and differences between themselves and others.
Resources on our ‘Emotions & Feelings’ page such as What Makes You Happy? Sheets, This Story Makes Me Feel... Activities, and Why Is Teddy Happy? Activity Packs can help support these discussions.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create a class "Things That Make Us Smile" display.
Encourage children to contribute photographs or drawings.
Develop a gratitude or appreciation wall.
Share favourite songs, books and games.
Create happiness jars filled with children's ideas.
Invite children to talk about special people in their lives.
❤️ Understanding Difficult Feelings
Smile Power Day also provides opportunities to explore feelings that can sometimes feel challenging.
Children might:
Discuss sadness, worry, frustration and anger.
Explore ways of seeking help and support.
Learn calming strategies.
Recognise that everyone experiences a range of emotions.
Develop empathy for others.
Resources on our ‘Emotions & Feelings’ page including Why Is Teddy Sad? Activity Packs, When I Feel Worried Templates, Worry and Anger Resources, and What Happens When You Feel...? Prompt Cards can help support these conversations.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create a calm corner or wellbeing space.
Use stories to explore emotions and problem solving.
Practise breathing and relaxation activities.
Develop simple emotional regulation toolkits.
Encourage children to identify trusted adults.
Use role play to explore supportive responses.
🤝 Kindness, Friendship & Connection
Smile Power Day naturally links to building positive relationships and encouraging kindness.
Children might:
Explore how kindness affects others.
Notice kind actions happening around them.
Practise friendship skills.
Learn ways to welcome and include others.
Develop empathy and cooperation.
Resources on our ‘Kindness & Friendship’ page such as Be The Reason Someone Smiles Posters, Let's Show Kindness Activity Prompts and Let's Connect With Each Other Resources; and Welcome Displays, and Languages Posters on our ‘Classroom Decor & Displays’ page can support these experiences.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create kindness challenge boards.
Encourage children to notice acts of kindness.
Develop friendship role-play opportunities.
Create compliment or appreciation cards.
Use circle-time discussions about friendship.
Build collaborative projects that require teamwork.
🎵 Music, Movement & Emotional Expression
Music, movement and creative expression provide valuable opportunities for children to explore emotions in different ways.
Children might:
Listen to music and discuss how it makes them feel.
Express emotions through movement.
Create facial expressions and body movements linked to feelings.
Use art and creativity to communicate experiences.
Explore how music can help change mood and energy levels.
Resources on our ‘Emotions & Feelings’ page such as This Music Makes Me Feel... Activities, Emotions Colouring, Blank Faces, Blank Faces Playdough Mats, Let's Get Moving Activity Prompts, and related music and sound and expressive movement resources can support these experiences.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create emotion-themed dance and movement sessions.
Explore different styles of music.
Use scarves and ribbons for expressive movement.
Create collaborative artwork about emotions.
Develop music and mindfulness areas.
Encourage children to invent emotion-inspired movements.
🧠 Promoting Positive Mental Health
Smile Power Day can help children begin developing lifelong habits that support emotional wellbeing.
Children might:
Explore what helps them feel calm and safe.
Discuss healthy habits.
Identify people who help them.
Learn about self-care and looking after others.
Build confidence and resilience.
Resources such as Healthy Minds Posters, Mood Booster Activity Cards, and Hands On Heart Discussion Resources on our ‘Mental Health’ page, can help support these conversations.
Additional Provision Enhancements
Create wellbeing baskets.
Explore simple mindfulness activities.
Encourage regular outdoor experiences.
Develop daily wellbeing routines.
Create affirmation or encouragement displays.
Celebrate effort, persistence and kindness.
🔍 Explore More
To support your Smile Power Day learning and encourage deeper exploration of emotions, wellbeing and positive relationships, you may wish to explore our resources linked to:
Mental Health • Emotions and Feelings • Kindness and Friendship
You may also enjoy exploring related themes such as:
All About Me • Colours • Music and Sound • Nursery Rhymes
These ideas and provision enhancements offer meaningful ways to celebrate Smile Power Day in EYFS and KS1 settings. By encouraging children to understand emotions, build positive relationships and practise kindness, practitioners can help nurture emotional literacy, resilience and a strong sense of belonging. 😊❤️🌟🤝
To explore ideas surrounding additional early years events, please visit our 'Special Dates Calendar' page.
Printable resources to support teaching & learning surrounding: ‘Smile Power Day’
Free ‘Smile Power’ related resources and activities for EYFS & KS1 from our ‘Mental Health’, ‘All About Me’ and ‘Emotions’ collections:
The bubbles on this ‘Healthy Minds’ poster all outline an aspect of how to look after your mental health. We hope it helps!
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These cards are intended as a quick choice of ideas to help lift someone’s mood.
Each card has an activity that may help a child feel a little brighter if they are having a sad day.
Everyone is different and each child may respond differently to each activity.
We hope this helps!
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Emoji Emotion Cards to be used for a variety of purposes.
They can be used as part of a display, given to individual children to enable them to voluntarily express their feelings or as a way to respond to adult questioning in discussions about how various situations may make us feel (1:1 or group).
They could be used in whole class, group or 1:1 to prompt role play depicting situations which evoke a specific emotion and this can then lead to discussions about how to deal with the emotion in question.
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It can often be difficult for children (and anyone) to deal with feelings of worry and anxiety. Once these feelings become overwhelmingly strong, it can be difficult to get passed them.
These 2 sheets are designed for children and adults to discuss what helps a particular child to feel happy when they are worried. This could be things like cuddling a particular soft toy, colouring, playing Lego, reading a book, etc. Once strategies have been decided, the child could make marks in the box(es) that will remind them of this strategy when they need to use it. Alternatively, adults may create picture prompts to place in the box(es).
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‘Smile Power’ related resources for EYFS & KS1 from our ‘Posters & Displays’, ‘Welcome’ collection:
Happy Faces ‘Welcome’ posters. 4 colours to choose from. Space to write the name of your setting/room/classroom.
Perfect for use as part of a welcome display.
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Hands on Heart ‘Welcome’ posters. 4 colours to choose from.
Perfect for use as part of a welcome display.
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‘Welcome’ poster including languages: English, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, French, German, Arabic, Czech, Italian and Polish. Smiling emoji background.
Perfect for use as part of a welcome display.
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Hands on Heart poster/wall art to prompt natural child led discussion celebrating racial diversity.
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‘Smile Power’ related resources and activities for EYFS & KS1 from our ‘Mental Health’, ‘All About Me’ and ‘Emotions’ collections:
These cards are intended as a quick choice of ideas to help lift someone’s mood.
Each card has an activity that may help a child feel a little brighter if they are having a sad day.
Everyone is different and each child may respond differently to each activity.
Activities included:
Drink some water!
Eat a healthy snack!
Go for a walk!
Do some exercise!
Read a book!
Role-play a character!
Paint a picture!
Make a model!
Sing a song or make some music!
Listen to some music!
Get in the sunshine!
Get outdoors into nature!
Have some quiet time.
Do some yoga stretches.
Help someone else with something. A kind act!
Think of the things you are thankful for.
Talk with a friend or family member.
Do something you really enjoy!
We hope this helps!
Keywords: Emotions, emotion, feeling, feelings, emotional regulation, emotional dysregulation, self-regulation, health, wellness
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This display pack comprises a two-page banner and a set of cloud shaped headings.
p2-3: Banner
p4-11: Cloud headings (large writing with small images)
p12-19: Cloud headings (small writing with large images)
The bubbles all outline an aspect of how to look after your mental health.
Aspects included:
Understanding and identifying feelings
Connecting with people and loved ones
Exploring and developing personal interests
Structure and routine
Sleep
Healthy food and water
Exercise
Connecting with nature
Growth mindset
Kindness and helping others
Thankfulness and gratitude. Finding small positives
We hope it helps!
Keywords: Emotions, emotion, feeling, feelings, emotional regulation, emotional dysregulation, self-regulation, health, wellness
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The bubbles on this ‘Healthy Minds’ poster all outline an aspect of how to look after your mental health.
Aspects included:
Understanding and identifying feelings
Connecting with people and loved ones
Exploring and developing personal interests
Structure and routine
Sleep
Healthy food and water
Exercise
Connecting with nature
Growth mindset
Kindness and helping others
Thankfulness and gratitude. Finding small positives
We hope it helps!
Keywords: Emotions, emotion, feeling, feelings, emotional regulation, emotional dysregulation, self-regulation, health, wellness
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This display/activity is intended to help the child/children identify their emotions and the experiences that trigger those emotions.
At the start of the day, one emotion is to be highlighted and discussed with the children. The children are then encouraged to tell someone if they think they experience that emotion during the day. The aim is for the children to become more introspective of their emotions, and more perceptive of the emotions of others.
As a group activity the children have the chance to learn from their peer’s experiences as well as their own.
Pack includes:
• Changeable display banner with space for different ‘Emotion of the day’ cards.
• Emotion of the day display cards for happy, sad, excited, worried, angry, confused, scared, surprised.
• Small A6 emotion cards to be placed around the setting as a reminder of the ‘Emotion of the day’.
Keywords: picture/visual communication aids, feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, mindfulness
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Set of 12 A5 ‘I am feeling’ cards. Useful for any individuals who need support in identifying and expressing their feelings.
Feelings include: happy, confused, excited, sad, scared, worried, love, sleepy, fine, angry, bored and frustrated.
Keywords: picture/visual communication aids, feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, autism, autistic, non verbal, non-verbal, mental health, wellness, mindfulness
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Set of 12 A5 ‘I am feeling’ colouring cards. Useful for any individuals who need support in identifying and expressing their feelings.
Feelings include: happy, confused, excited, sad, scared, worried, love, sleepy, fine, angry, bored and frustrated.
Keywords: picture/visual communication aids, feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, autism, autistic, non verbal, non-verbal, mental health, wellness, colouring page/pages/sheet/sheets, mindfulness
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We created this ‘Why is Teddy sad?’ pack in order for you to be able to explore with children how sometimes something may feel wrong inside when there are no obvious cuts, bruises, etc.
As well as investigating the feeling of ‘sadness’ by talking about what might cause us to feel sad and what it actually feels like, this pack could also be a doorway to talking about mental health. It also aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
Keywords: feeling, feelings, emotions, emotion/emotional regulation/dysregulation/self-regulation, autism, autistic, mental health, wellness, colouring page/pages/sheet/sheets, empathy, role play, role-play, mindfulness
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This display is intended to be an interactive self-registration display that can evolve throughout the day. The children can find and add their names to the emoji that expresses how they are feeling at the start of the day and then they are encouraged to change the position of their name as they see fit as the day progresses. It aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
An adult can quickly check to see how the group is feeling and follow up on anyone who may have indicated that they are sad, angry, etc.
Two sizes of emoji are included so that the display can fit different settings. Large (p4-9) and Small (p10-12).
For name tags, print p13 as many times as needed.
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PLAY - CONNECT - TALK
On this poster are ideas for fun activities that could be undertaken 1:1 with a child in the hopes of fostering a connection that could lead to talk.
A relaxed, fun situation is conducive to conversation which, as well as developing talking skills, will provide an opportunity for the child to express their feelings about themselves and others.
We hope this helps!
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PLAY - CONNECT - TALK
These prompt cards are ideas for fun activities that could be undertaken 1:1 with a child in the hopes of fostering a connection that could lead to talk.
A relaxed, fun situation is conducive to conversation which, as well as developing talking skills, will provide an opportunity for the child to express their feelings about themselves and others.
We hope this helps!
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This poster gives 20 fun activity ideas to get moving.
As well as being good for the body, movement and exercise are also an important part of a healthy mind!
We hope this helps!
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These prompt cards are ideas for movement activities.
As well as being good for the body, movement and exercise are also an important part of a healthy mind!
We hope this helps!
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Create an emotions/feelings display using these banners alongside some of our other emotions resources.
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The cards can be used as part of an input about emotions and feelings. The intention is that the cards would be held with the image facing the child/children and the prompts facing the adult. The activity should help the child/children think carefully about what each emotion feels like to them when they experience them. For example, when we are happy we may feel like smiling, dancing, laughing, etc. This process aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
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It can often be difficult for children (and anyone) to deal with feelings of worry and anxiety. Once these feelings become overwhelmingly strong, it can be difficult to get passed them.
These 2 sheets are designed for children and adults to discuss what helps a particular child to feel happy when they are worried. This could be things like cuddling a particular soft toy, colouring, playing Lego, reading a book, etc. Once strategies have been decided, the child could make marks in the box(es) that will remind them of this strategy when they need to use it. Alternatively, adults may create picture prompts to place in the box(es).
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It can often be difficult for children (and anyone) to make good choices when they have an overwhelming feeling of anger or frustration. In order to talk about problems and express thoughts effectively it is often necessary to return to a calm state first.
These 2 sheets are designed for children and adults to discuss what helps a particular child to feel happy/calm again. This could be things like cuddling a particular soft toy, colouring, playing Lego, sitting in the reading corner, etc. Once strategies have been decided, the child could make marks in the boxes that will remind them of this strategy when they need to use it. Alternatively, adults may create picture prompts to place in the box(es).
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This poster gives 20 fun activity ideas to show kindness.
We hope this helps!
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These activity cards outline 20 fun activity ideas to show kindness.
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These playdough mats are perfect for gaining an insight into the day to day feelings of those in your care. Useful as a tool to explore feelings 1:1 with a child. However, they may be especially useful as a fine motor activity within a setting/school which also allows adults to tell at a glance the feelings of children within a group. This could be a particularly beneficial tool in assessing the feelings of those settling into a new setting. In addition, it aids in the mindfulness practice of recognising emotions.
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Emoji Emotions Mat to be used for a variety of purposes. To be used as part of a display, given to individual children to enable them to voluntarily express their feelings or as a way to respond to adult questioning in discussions about how various situations may make us feel (1:1 or group). Best used during small group or 1:1 activities, discussions or role-play.
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Emoji Emotion Cards to be used for a variety of purposes. They can be used as part of a display, given to individual children to enable them to voluntarily express their feelings or as a way to respond to adult questioning in discussions about how various situations may make us feel (1:1 or group). They could be used in whole class, group or 1:1 to prompt role play depicting situations which evoke a specific emotion and this can then lead to discussions about how to deal with the emotion in question.
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This emotion fan (emoiji version) gives children an alternate means to express their feelings on a slightly more developed level than the basic emoji fans that have only 3 options. They can be given to individual children to enable them to voluntarily express their feelings or as a way to respond to adult questioning in discussions about how various situations may make us feel (1:1 or group).
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A variety of differentiated drawing/writing/mark making sheets which allow children to express how a piece of music made them feel. This is a great mindfulness tool for helping children to identify and understand their emotions.
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A variety of differentiated drawing/writing/mark making sheets which allow children to express how a story made them feel. This is a great mindfulness tool for helping children to identify and understand their emotions.
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These emoji emotions colouring sheets are ideally made available to children within more focused activities surrounding 'All About Me' and 'Feelings' topics. Alternatively, each individual colouring sheet could be used as the basis for discussion/role-play about an individual emotion and then children can colour the sheet to consolidate their knowledge further.
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Emotion cards to be used for a variety of purposes. They can be used as part of a display, given to individual children to enable them to voluntarily express their feelings or as a way to respond to adult questioning in discussions about how various situations may make us feel (1:1 or group). They could be used in whole class, group or 1:1 to prompt role play depicting situations which evoke a specific emotion and this can then lead to discussions about how to deal with the emotion in question.
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Handy Emotion Cards with matching statements. Extremely useful to prompt discussions and role play about how situations may make us feel, beginning to understand other people's emotions and how to deal with our own. Each of the statements were developed considering what situations children may experience themselves. Adult to read cards, match to appropriate picture with the help of child(ren). This can then lead to further discussion and/or role-play.
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These Emotion Cards with matching word labels are designed to be used for a variety of purposes. Print large for use in an interactive display or whole class activity or smaller for 1:1 individual work. Children (with support from an adult) think about how the person in each picture is feeling in order to identify the emotion. You may or may not wish to use the word card labels depending on the age of your children.
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Emotions Mat to be used for a variety of purposes. To be used as part of a display, given to individual children to enable them to voluntarily express their feelings or as a way to respond to adult questioning in discussions about how various situations may make us feel (1:1 or group). Best used during small group or 1:1 activities, discussions or role-play.
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These emotion fans give children an alternate means to express their feelings on a slightly more developed level than the basic emotion fans. They can be given to individual children to enable them to voluntarily express their feelings or as a way to respond to adult questioning in discussions about how various situations may make us feel (1:1 or group).
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These emotion fans give children an alternate means to express their feelings on a basic level. They can be given to individual children to enable them to voluntarily express their feelings or as a way to respond to adult questioning (1:1 or group). Additionally, they can be used to allow children to begin to learn how to self-evaluate how well they feel they have understood an activity and/or how much they have enjoyed it.
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Traffic light fans with Green, Amber and Red lights.
Designed to be cut out, laminated and then joined with a split pin or short treasury tag.
Children can use to self-evaluate how well they think they have understood/enjoyed an activity.
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These emotions colouring sheets are ideally made available to children within more focused activities surrounding 'All About Me' and 'Feelings' topics. Alternatively, each individual colouring sheet could be used as the basis for discussion/role-play about an individual emotion and then children can colour the sheet to consolidate their knowledge further.
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'What makes you happy?' idea templates. Perfect for use after circle time as part of 'Ourselves' and 'Feelings' work. Children have space in thought bubbles to draw and/or write about 3 things that make them happy.
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These sheets are designed to encourage children to think about their emotions and what causes them to feel a certain way. Children learn to identify a feeling and pinpoint when they have felt that way. The sheets can be used as simply a prompt for discussion or as a stimulus for children to draw about their feelings. Why not have a look at our ‘Write Emotions’ sheets?
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These sheets are designed to encourage children to think about their emotions and what causes them to feel a certain way. Children learn to identify a feeling and pinpoint when they have felt that way. The sheets can be used as simply a prompt for discussion or as a stimulus for children to draw and write about their feelings. Why not have a look at our Draw Emotions sheets?
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To compliment the Emotion Cards in the All About Me topic, these blank faces can be coloured in with children adding their own choice of eyes, nose and mouth to convey expression.
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To compliment Emotion resources, these blank faces are ideal to be laminated and used as playdough mats with children adding their own choice of eyes, nose and mouth to convey expression.
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‘Smile Power’ related resources and activities for EYFS & KS1 from our ‘Music and Sound’ collection:
Emoji cards intended for use in conjunction with a musical listening activity and/or interactive display.
Children can be encouraged to select the card which shows how the piece of music makes them feel. Great form of picture communication and also to prompt communication and language development.
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Emoji card colouring sheets intended for use in conjunction with a musical listening activity and/or interactive display.
Children can be encouraged to select the card which shows how the piece of music makes them feel. Great form of picture communication and also to prompt communication and language development. This set of cards can also be coloured once selected. CLICK HERE for full colour versions.
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Creative and hands on way for children to convey the emotion they feel when listening to a piece of music.
Laminate this sheet for children to use time and again to respond to different pieces of music by creating emotions in the form of playdough facial features.
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Banner and emoji cards intended for use in conjunction with a musical listening activity and/or interactive display.
Children can be encouraged to select the card which shows how the piece of music makes them feel. Great form of picture communication and also to prompt communication and language development.
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This pack includes:
A full colour ‘This music makes me feel…’ mat for display/activity station use. Children can be encouraged to listen to music and point to the emotion(s) that represent how the music makes them feel.
A black and white colouring in version of the mat for individual use. Again children can be encouraged to listen to music, but this time colour in the emoji(s) that represent how the music makes them feel.
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This page is for educational purposes only and is intended to support early years and primary practitioners with ideas and resources related to 'Smile Power Day'. This is an unofficial observance and, as such, there is no single founding organisation to credit.
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