EYFS – Emotions and feelings
Explore
Facial Expressions and Body Language
Explore different ways of expressing emotions/feelings using facial expressions and body language.
Notice how light or heavy your body feels or how tense/relaxed
With your face and body show me: – Tired, Happy, Sad, Excited, Calm, Angry, Scared,
Actions and emotions/feelings
In a space explore actions and then add an emotion/feeling.
How do you have to change your body to express that emotion/feeling? Do you change the speed, level size of action?
- Walk, Sad walk
- Turn, Excited turn
- Jump, Angry Jump
- Tiptoe, Scared tiptoe
- Balance, Calm balance
Emotions/Feelings Motif
From the exploration we will select actions with emotions/feelings to create a motif.
- excited jump,
- angry turn
- happy walk
- scared slide
TASK
Using the words on the Emotions/Feeling Dance PDF (embed link) to create your own emotions/feelings dance. Remember to use your facial expressions too so we can really see how your feeling with each dance action!
You can: –
- Dance our motif and add a starting and finishing position
- Change the order
- Pick out only 3 or 4 words to create your dance
- Add a starting and finishing position
Choose your own actions and emotions/feelings