It can be fun to explore and learn about feeling as you put together the Basketball Feeling Puzzles with Kids. The puzzles in the set are all color. They will be fun to place in a center or work with in pairs.
Before starting on the puzzles it will be important to go over the feelings. Below are some ways to explore feelings with kids.
- Have children act out a time they had each of the feelings.
- Show how their face would display each feeling.
- Read a book about feelings with your children.
Books the Explore Feelings
Below you will see a collection of books that explore feelings. They would be fun to read to your children.
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The Boy with Big, Big Feelings is a story about a boy who needs to learn how to handle the big feelings he has been experiencing.
The Way I Feel explores identifying feelings and how to express them.
The Color Monster wakes up with feelings that are all over the place. A little girl uses colors to help him understand them.
Getting the Basketball Feeling Puzzles
First, you download the set.
Second, if you don’t have Acrobat Reader please download it. The set is an Acrobat Reader PDF file.
Third, go to your download file and open the set.
You can have your children work on the basketball feeling puzzles in a variety of ways. Here are some of the ways we came up with.
Exploring the Puzzles
- Children could glue the pieces to a piece of construction paper in order.
- You can print them on the tag board and have your children work on them in a center.
- You could laminate them and have your children work on them with a partner.
- Children can place the pieces in order on a metal pan if they place magnets on the back of the puzzle pieces.
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