Have your child/students write about a time that they felt a particular emotion on the emotion wheel.

Some of these are challenging, so kids won’t be able to complete on their own, work together, or in a group.

Go over this list of emotions and decide which section on the emotion wheel they would fit into.

Use it as a starting point and brainstorm other emotions with the child.

Pair the emotion wheel with Zones of Regulation activities and printables – Find them here.

There are many different wants you can use the feelings wheel as a teaching tool for kids. The emotion wheel will help you build on these concepts and develop emotional regulation.

Things like walking away from a frustrating situation and returning to talk when you’re calm, doing deep breathing exercises, or watching a funny movie when you’re sad are all examples of emotional regulation strategies. What are you thinking? This includes your thought patterns, how you label the emotion, the speed of your thoughts, etc.Įmotional regulation means you can calm down and cope with your emotions in an appropriate way. This is the conscious experience during the emotional experience. However, with worry, you may get fidgety and hypervigilant but with excitement, you may be giggly and talk a lot.

Behavioral:Īs mentioned, you experience a similar arousal level when you’re both worried and excited. However, the two emotions feel very different. Both emotions cause an elevated arousal level. For example, excited and worried both fall into the yellow zone. There are more specific physiological responses to each emotion. The emotions that fall into each zone have a similar effect on arousal.īlue zone is low energy, green is ideal, yellow is slightly elevated and red is extremely high arousal.

What is your arousal level? In the Zones of Regulation, each zone actually represents a level of arousal. There are three components to every single emotion we experience.

Color wheel emotion