We're back with another year of monthly coloring pages from children's book author and illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg. These two emotions coloring pages are a good tool to help kids talk about their feelings. Or, even if your kids don't like to spend hours discussing their emotional state (mine are pretty tight-lipped), they can at least get their brains thinking about it silently.
Melanie is sharing two feelings coloring pages this month. One is blank so kids can draw in the faces, themselves. Emotional Intelligence, or "EQ" is a big deal for kids and finding tools to help kids understand their own emotional life as well as "read" the feelings of others is just as important for success as academic and intellectual learning. Print out these pages and use them as a talking tool using one of the suggestions below.
Download and Print: (By clicking the following link, you agree to our terms of service. *See below) TWO EMOTIONS COLORING PAGES
These coloring pages have so much potential for learning activities:
- Cut them out and use them as story starters.
- Cut them out, put in a jar and draw one out as talking point. For example, "What surprised you today?"
- Have the child fill in the blank faces and then ask him to describe what happened to each person to make them feel that way.
- Children can draw their own versions of each face on the blank faces, cut them out and use as a memory matching game.
- Use them in conjunction with Melanie's multicultural children coloring page to discuss diversity and tolerance.
- Color, cut and attach each head to a wooden craft stick to create puppets.
How will you use the emotions coloring pages??
See all of Melanie’s coloring pages:
Meet the illustrator:
Melanie Hope Greenberg is an award winning author and illustrator of more than 15 children’s books. Her cheerful, vibrant illustrations can be found in books such as Good Morning, Digger, Down in the Subway and A City Is, a book of poems by Norman Rosten, the poet laureate of Brooklyn. Her very popular Mermaids on Parade was selected as a Bank Street Best Book, and for the Texas Reading Club and PBS Kids Summer Reading Lists.
Melanie also visits schools to talk about the process of creating a book. Learn more about her internationally recognized art work at her official website.
Melanie signs all copies of her books purchased through her Amazon vendor link. {You can also click on a cover below and scroll through the third party vendors to find Melanie’s vendor link. Please note: book covers are affiliate links.)
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