Visually rich and poetically told.- BooklistLlenas finds an approachable way for kids to identify feelings, and allows for the understanding that one can have many emotions at once. The story should resonate with children whose emotions are not always easy to control.- The Horn BookHelps process emotions using beautiful, affirming language. Review Quotes 2019 International Literacy Association/Children's Book Council Children's Choices List Over 25 translations for The Color Monster More than 1.5 million copies sold internationally inviting exploration of colors and emotions. Everyone will enjoy sharing this concept book that taps into both socio-emotional growth and color concepts in a simple, friendly way. As this adorable monster learns to sort and define his mixed up emotions, he gains self-awareness and peace as a result. His emotions are all over the place he feels angry, happy, calm, sad, and scared all at once! To help him, a little girl shows him what each feeling means through color. One day, Color Monster wakes up feeling very confused. Full color.īook Synopsis Unpack feelings with color in this international bestseller that helps young readers identify emotions and feel more in control. This concept book taps into both socio-emotional growth and color concepts in a simple, friendly way. If they get orange, they can complete the Color Monster Printables and so on.About the Book The international bestseller that helps children identify emotions and feel more in control is now available in a picture book format. What should he do?Īsk the children to mix two colors at a time and see which color they get. He has only 3 colors, which are red, blue and yellow, but he needs orange, purple and green to try and make sense of all those other feelings he feels. Red, blue and yellow paint (poster paint or watercolor)Įxplain to the children that the color monster is a bit confused.So if they could color all the emotions and the colors on the jars the same color as in the story, he would be a very happy monster!Įxperimenting with and mixing paint is such a fun and concrete way for the little thinkers to learn about primary and secondary colors. He needs help from them to remember all these colors. Then explain to them that this confused color monster has decided to make his feelings certain colors to make it easier for him to understand. Ask them what color they see when they feel happy etc.

Talk about feelings and what the kids associate with these. And everything they see has color! Everything they feel is still a bit difficult to express though, and these two activities will help them to realize that they are not the only ones that are a little confused. Children at this age are still in the process of putting words to the different things they see around them.

Color Recognition is an important concept to master in the younger learning years.

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