Wheel Of Emotions For Kids Worksheet

Encouraging children to understand their emotions from an early age helps build strong emotional intelligence. As they learn to cope with their feelings, they also develop a sense of self-awareness and identity. Learning how to identify emotions supports emotional resilience, which can help with building healthy connections with others and a strong relationship with themselves.

A great way to help a child express how they feel is to help them understand and identify the emotions they are experiencing, even when more than one emotion is present at a time. Helping a child feel in touch with their emotions promotes empathy, healthy communication, and emotional awareness. All of these promote a well-rounded child with a healthy sense of self-esteem.

About This Worksheet

Emotions can be triggered in many different ways. A child can benefit from learning about how their emotions affect them and how to express them in a constructive manner. The Wheel of Emotions for Kids worksheet is a kid-friendly emotions wheel designed to help children learn how to identify and express their feelings.

There are a total of 20 emotion words on the Emotions Wheel For Kids worksheet, organized into two levels of feeling. It uses basic and related emotions to illustrate how a child can feel more than one emotion at a time.

The Wheel of Emotions for Kids worksheet is great for children up to 12 years old. It can be used in individual counseling sessions, family sessions, and group counseling. This worksheet can be helpful for kids who struggle with expressing how they feel or coping with anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem.

Instructions

To introduce the Emotions Wheel for Kids worksheet, explain to the child what emotions are and why it is important to know how to express their feelings. Explain that it is okay to not always understand how they are feeling in the moment, and offer the worksheet as a guide to help them identify and understand their emotions.

Use the Wheel of Emotions for Kids worksheet by letting the child pick a feeling word from the inner circle. Then help them choose a feeling word from the same colored section in the outer circle.

To help teach ways to communicate feelings, you can prompt the child with sentences, like:

• "I feel ____ because I feel ____"
• "I am _____ because I feel ____"
• "This situation makes me feel ____ and ____"

If you are seeing the child in a family setting, provide a copy of the worksheet to their caretakers to aid in practicing the exercise at home.

References

Willcox, G. (1982). The Feeling Wheel: A Tool for Expanding Awareness of Emotions and Increasing Spontaneity and Intimacy. Transactional Analysis Journal, 12(4), 274-276.

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