Drawing a feeling

Ages 3 to 5 Read and do together · about 15 minutes

Read together

Feelings can be a colour or a line.

Happy can be yellow and round. Cross can be red and spiky.

Do it

1. Choose a feeling together: happy, sad, calm, excited.
2. Ask: what colour is it? What line? Fast or slow, round or spiky?
3. Draw it on a big sheet with crayons or paint, with no faces and no “right” way.
4. Talk about the picture: “This is calm. It is blue and slow.” Hang it up.

Talk about it

• What feeling is in your picture?
• What colour is calm for you?

For the grown-up

Art gives a child a way to show feelings they may not have words for. Accept whatever they draw, and do not ask them to explain unless they want to.

Mark as done

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This is a play and practice activity with no factual claims to source.

Written with AI assistance and checked against the sources listed. Please read it before sharing it with a child.