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Children discuss and name emotions, choose a feeling to draw or paint, and compare shared experiences to identify similarities. The resource includes turn-taking confidence prompts, a celebration activity for achievements during lockdown, and story-based reassurance using The Huge Book of Worries. It also provides mindfulness and trust-building pair games and guided “safe place” or shield imagery to manage worries, fears, and negative emotions.","| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| \u003Cbr>|  |\n|  |  |\n\nActivity: Opening up about how they feel. EMOTIONS  \nDiscuss emotions with the class. What emotions are there?  \nAsk the class what these emotions feel like? Do they feel nice or horrible? What is their favourite emotion?  \nAsk the class to choose one emotion. Get them to draw or paint their chosen emotion. What do they think that emotion looks like? Get them to think about what kind of colour that emotion might be.  \nWhen the children have made their pictures, compare those pictures, which portray the same emotion? Do the children's pictures have similarities?  \nAre pupils sharing the same concerns? Use circle time to come up with ways of helping pupils overcome their negative emotions. How can the group support each other?  \nActivity: ‘That’s me!’: Children take turns to stand up and share with the group a fact about themselves e.g.“my favourite colour is blue”or “I like to eat chocolate”. If other children also agree with the statement then they must stand up also and shout: “That’s me!”  \nActivity: Celebrate all the amazing things the children have achieved over lockdown. 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