Free Emotion Cards and Activities to Teach Kids about Feelings

Grab our free printable emotion cards to help children learn about emotions. The emotions printables include emotion flashcards and emotions worksheets. Simply print the feelings flashcards to teach kids from toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and grade 1 students about various things they may be feeling.

Emotion Cards

Help children learn about emotions with our interactive “Emotion Cards Printable Pack.” This pack includes both emotion flashcards and a free printable emotions activity to help children identify and understand different emotions. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love using these feelings flashcards with children of all ages, including those with special needs.  We’ve included emotions activities to do with preschool, pre-k, kindergarten age students as an extension activity at home or in the classroom.

If you are looking for other ways to teach kids about emotions, don’t miss our free emotions worksheet for kindergarten, cute emotions matching game printable, fun feelings books for preschoolers, handy emotion cards, and free printable emotions playdough mats

Emotion flashcards

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> ___________<<. The emotions printable pdf file will open in a new window for you to save your freebie. Now print off  the pages.

Feelings Flashcards

The first page features drawings of children’s faces expressing various emotions, along with the corresponding words for each emotion. Children can use these cards to visually identify different emotions and learn the associated vocabulary.

Emotions Activity

On the second page, the words for each emotion are omitted, providing a matching challenge for children. They can use this page to test their knowledge and memory by matching the faces with the correct emotions. For additional reinforcement, a separate page with the words is included for children to match with the emotions.

Emotions activities

Looking for fun and engaging ways to help your child or students learn about emotions? Look no further than our feelings flashcards! Here are 15 activities you can do with them:

1. Emotion Charades: Act out the emotion shown on the flashcard and have others guess what it is.
2. Feelings Memory Game: Lay all the flashcards face down and take turns trying to find matching pairs.
3. Emotion Scavenger Hunt: Hide the flashcards around the room and have children find and identify them.
4. Drawing Emotions: Have children draw a picture of the emotion on the flashcard.
5. Emotion Story Time: Use the flashcards to create a story incorporating different emotions.
6. Emotion Freeze Dance: Play music and when it stops, have children pick a flashcard and act out that emotion.
7. Feelings Sorting: Have children categorize the flashcards into positive and negative emotions.
8. Emotion Guess Who: Describe a feeling without saying the word and have others guess which flashcard it represents.
9. Emotion Matching: Have children match the flashcards to words describing the emotions.
10. Emotion Relay Race: Set up a relay race where children have to pick up a flashcard and act out the emotion before passing it to the next person.
11. Emotion Discussion: Use the flashcards as prompts for discussing different feelings and how to cope with them.
12. Emotion Bingo: Create bingo cards with different emotions and have children match them to the flashcards.
13. Feelings Puppet Show: Have children use puppets to act out the emotions shown on the flashcards.
14. Emotion Simon Says: Play a game of Simon Says using the emotions on the flashcards.
15. Feelings Journal: Have children write or draw about a time they felt each emotion on the flashcards.

Emotions Printable

There are various educational benefits to using these feelings printables including:

• Emotion Recognition: Helps children identify and understand different emotions.
• Vocabulary Development: Introduces and reinforces emotion-related vocabulary words.
• Cognitive Skills: Promotes memory, matching, and critical thinking skills through interactive gameplay.

Download the “Emotion Cards Printable Pack” today and provide children with a fun and educational tool to explore emotions and develop essential cognitive and social-emotional skills!