Helping children identify and label emotions is essential to learning emotional skills. Many children do not yet have the vocabulary to identify feelings, such as words like “angry” or “frustrated”, or the skills to read facial cues or interpret body language. This "How Are You Feeling?" wall element features a make-your-own-expression face, allowing children to express their emotions by adjusting the direction of their eyebrows, eyes, nose, and mouth.
They can also add tears or flush on their cheeks when they are sad or embarrassed. We are also introducing three mood meters, each with three axes representing happiness, sadness, and anger (each axis ranges from 1 to 5). Children can show adults how happy, angry, or sad they are by easily sliding the wooden pegs to the correct position. When a child is told they are at a degree "5" on the Sadness Axis, adults can ask them why they are feeling unfortunate and offer help to the child.
Or when a child is delighted, we can encourage them to share with other children. Finally, ten circumstances or objects are printed on the panel; teachers will choose one of them and ask a child to create a corresponding facial expression, then slide the mood meters to express their feelings. This could be an exciting game as children could react differently. For example, some children love cats, while others fear them.
Wall Elements - How Are You Feeling
To mount to the STEM Wall, you will need to choose a mounting system:
STEM Wall Element Mounting System
Flexible Mount Single Panel Extension
Flexible Mount Double Panel Extension mount
All Activity Boards Compatible with:
Free Standing Mobile Stem Wall 860
Free Standing Mobile Stem Wall 1660
Activity Wall Boards can be used as a floor or table activity, mounted to a wall or with the Free-standing Painting Window and the
Made from Russian Birch plywood and Beech Wood (FSC).
Size of board: 460 x 460mm.
Age: 2+ years.
Price includes GST.