How to teach the emotions with a short story and a craft?

Spanish

Emotional education is essential in the development of children. Know and channel emotions will help them cope with the world around them, it is necessary to know oneself. 

The first book I want to talk about is titled "Érase Una vez un niño comepalalabras" The main character of this funny story decides to eat words related to emotions. Can you imagine a child who eats the word love? or the word sadness?, what would happen each time  he eats a word?. 

This charming boy invites us to travel through the emotions to help our children or students to know those emotions that we often do not understand. This story is a great tool to help our kids to express and channel their emotions. 

It also comes with a fantastic cootie catcher to play after reading. The cootie catcher has questions for children to think about what happens when you feel every emotion and in which situations they believe they feel each emotion. It is a game to talk with them, to make them think and realize that we all feel the same emotions. (The cootie catcher can be downloaded for free, check the link below). 

What can we do when children still struggle to speak? 

I offer a craft to share a good time with the kids and make a tool that could help them express how they feel. 

Go to the craft

I got this book in the library, but if you are interested to buy it, in the website of the publisher, BabulinkaBooks,  there is a list of their distributors.

BabulinkaBooks is a publisher with a very interesting collection of books for the emotional education. 

In the following link you can find more information about the book with some inside pictures and the cootie catcher to download in PDF format:

http://babulinkabooks.com/es//?s=erase+una+vez

Title: "Érase una vez un niño comepalabras"

Theme: Emotions 

Publisher: Babulinka Books 

Authors: Marlet & Jordi Sunyer 

Recommended Age: From 4 years.