Halloween Emotional Awareness Coloring Sheets – Fun Pumpkin Activity for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)

🎃 3-Page Emotion and Color Guide: This guide teaches kids about the connection between colors and emotions, helping them explore how each emotion feels in the body. Each page shows a different pumpkin with an emotion, a matching color, and a simple description that explains what that emotion might feel like inside.

🎃 8.5x11 “It’s Okay to Feel” Poster: This printable poster displays pumpkins with a variety of facial expressions, showing common emotions like happy, sad, angry, and excited. The poster is perfect for hanging in the classroom to reinforce emotional awareness and add a touch of fun, seasonal decor. It’s a great visual reminder that all emotions are okay and can help students feel more comfortable expressing how they feel.

🎃 Blank Pumpkin Coloring Sheets: Students can draw faces on pumpkins to represent emotions and color each one to show how different feelings make them feel.
🎃 Teacher Instructions: A guide to help you introduce the activity, with tips on engaging students in discussions about their feelings and creative ways to extend the activity.
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🎃 Begin by introducing emotions to your students using the colorful Emotion and Color Guide. This 5-page guide offers visual examples of what different feelings might look like.
🎃 Hand out the blank pumpkin sheet, encouraging students to draw faces that represent each emotion and pick colors that match how they feel.
🎃 Optional: Use the blank pumpkin sheet as a daily emotional check-in, allowing students to express how they’re feeling in the moment.

🎃 Builds Emotional Vocabulary: Helps students learn to identify and talk about their emotions.
🎃 Promotes Emotional Awareness: Encourages students to recognize their own feelings and express them creatively.
🎃 Fosters Classroom Discussion: Perfect for discussions about how emotions can look and feel different for everyone.
🎃 Flexible Use: Can be used as part of a social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum, for mindfulness exercises, or even as a fun Halloween-themed activity!
Perfect For:
🎃 Morning Check-ins: Have students color a pumpkin each morning to reflect their mood.
🎃 Emotion Discussions: Use the emotion guide to start daily or weekly conversations about emotions and self-regulation.
🎃 Seasonal SEL Activity: Incorporate the resource into a fun, Halloween-themed social-emotional learning (SEL) unit.
Extension Ideas:
🎃 Creative Writing: After coloring the pumpkins, ask students to write about a time they felt one of the emotions.
🎃 Classroom Display: Create an “Emotions Pumpkin Patch” where students hang up their colored pumpkins each day to track the class’s feelings.

Learning Objectives:
🎃 Develop emotional awareness and vocabulary
🎃 Encourage emotional expression through art
🎃 Foster self-reflection and mindfulness
🎃 Promote a safe environment to discuss feelings