Homeschooling

This fall feelings mini book allows children the chance to process their thoughts and feelings about different events that happen in the autumn. When kids practise talking and writing about their emotions, they are better able to manage them in a healthy way.

The pages include some common autumn scenarios such as raking leaves, going to the pumpkin patch, and playing in the leaves.

It also gives students the chance to express what they like about fall and what they don’t like about fall. For some students, it may be easy to think of things they like about winter and they may need some prompting. For others, it may be their favourite season and they may need help to come up with things they don’t like!

My Fall Feelings Mini Book:

Supplies needed:

• My Fall Feelings mini book printable pages. (download here)
• scissors
• pencil or pen
• markers, crayons, or pencil crayons
• stapler and staples

Instructions:

1. Download the My Fall Feelings mini book.
2. Print out the pages.
3. Cut apart the booklet pages.
4. Let your student decide how he or she feels about each fall activity and draw the corresponding face on the child on that page. Your student can use the Emotions Word Bank for ideas (for words to use and for faces to draw).
5. When your student has completed the book, stack the pages together with the cover on top and staple on the left side to create a little keepsake book.

After your child or student has filled out their booklet, it’s a great time to sit down with them and debrief. If there are some seasonal scenarios that seem to have potential to cause them some distress, together you can brainstorm ways they can better manage those feelings if they arise. 

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Mini books for other seasons:

• Spring Mini Book
• Winter Mini Book

Other free emotions printables that are perfect for fall:

• Pumpkin Emotions Game
• Spider Emotions Matching Game
• September Emotions Printables
• October Emotions Printables
• November Emotions Printables

While worksheets and books are a great way to help your kids learn the alphabet, all that busy work can quickly get boring. That’s why it’s important to incorporate interactive learning into your curriculum. Active games are a great way to help your kids learn and play at the same time. With this fun alphabet scavenger hunt, your kids can practice reading letters and words while playing an entertaining game.This is such a fun way to learn! Our family has always enjoyed scavenger hunts. You can find all our favourites here. 

Alphabet Scavenger Hunt

Supplies needed:

• Printable scavenger hunt pages
• Pencil or dry erase marker
• optional: plastic sheet protector or laminator if using a dry erase marker

Instructions:

1. Download the printable scavenger hunt and print out the pages.
2. Ask your child to find the items on the list.
3. When they find an item, they can mark it off by putting a check or X in the box next to it.

Alphabet Scavenger Hunt Printable

This printable alphabet scavenger hunt is perfect for preschoolers who are just beginning to learn their letters or beginning readers in kindergarten. The printable scavenger hunt features each letter of the alphabet, along with a simple word and picture to correspond with each letter:

• A for art
• B for book
• C for clothes
• D for door
• E for empty
• F for furniture
• G for gift
• H for hard
• I for ice
• J for jar
• K for kitchen
• L for letter
• M for move
• N for nine
• O for orange
• P for pencil
• Q for quiet
• R for ring
• S for soft
• T for toy
• U for up
• V for vegetable
• W for water
• X for exit
• Y for yard
• Z for zipper

As they play, preschoolers can identify each letter and say the sound that it makes. After that, they can use the pictures as clues to help them determine what they need to find for each letter.

And Kindergarteners can read the letter and the word next to it to find each item on the list. The pictures next to each letter and word can provide context clues to help them figure out what each word says.

After identifying the letter and word they need to search for, your kids can start looking around their surroundings to find the different things on the list. When they find something, they can mark it off the list using the blank box next to each letter. After all the boxes are checked, the game is over.

Scavenger Hunt Ideas

After printing out your scavenger hunt pages, your kids can have a blast learning and playing! Try these tips to ensure your kids make the most of their printable worksheets.

Laminate the pages to reuse them. Your kids can play the game over and over again if you laminate the pages. After printing the scavenger hunt, laminate each page. Then, let your kids use dry erase markers to check off the items when they find them. After the game is over, simply erase the marks so the pages can be used again.

Use a page protector. If you don’t have a laminator at home, you can still preserve the sheets for future use. Just place the pages in a plastic page protector. Your kids can use dry erase markers to check off each box. And you can erase the marks when they’re finished playing.

Discuss each letter and word before you start. When your kids start playing the game, they may get too excited to listen and think about the words on the page. Before you send your kids off the begin their search, it’s a good idea to go through each letter and word so they understand what they need to do. Give them a chance to read the letter and word, as well as look at the picture next to it. Then discuss different things they could search for that go along with the word and where they might be able to find those items.

Encourage creativity. This open-ended game is perfect for encouraging creativity with your kids. Make sure they know that the words for each letter can be interpreted differently, allowing them to find a variety of different items for each letter. The word art, for example, could be a picture, painting, or even an art supply.

Include older kids. While this game at a glance is for preschoolers and early readers, older kids can get involved so that the whole family can play. With older kids, just encourage them to think outside the box. Be creative. 

Take the hunt outside your home. There’s no reason your kids need to restrict their search to your home. You can take the printable hunt with you as you’re out and about. Try taking the pages to these places to give your kids a chance to search for new items on the list:

• library
• in the car
• grocery store
• doctor or dentist’s office
• a walk around the neighbourhood

Change up the game each time. After your kids have played this scavenger hunt game once, you might think there’s no use in keeping the printable sheets and using them again. But there is a simple way to keep the game fresh each time you use it and challenge your children to think outside the box. Just tell them they can’t use the same item more than once. So, if they found their bedroom door for the letter D last time they played, that door is now off limits for the next round! This easy tactic will make the game more challenging each time your kids play, forcing them to use their critical thinking skills during each round.

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Check out some of our other scavenger hunts:

• Family Bundle of Scavenger Hunts
• Road Trip Scavenger Hunt
• Outdoor Sensory Scavenger Hunt
• Backyard Photo Scavenger Hunt
• The Put Away Scavenger Hunt

Use this mini book as a tool to help kids talk about their feelings. When children are able to write about and talk about their emotions, they are better able to process and manage them. The pages in this Spring themed mini book contain some common seasonal happenings. They are simple enough, but that’s actually the beauty of them. When kids are given the opportunity to talk about how they feel about everyday things, they begin to develop a comfort in speaking about and writing about their emotions in general, which can lead to them sharing about deeper things in the future.

This also allows us to get some insight into our kids or students. While some may delight in splashing in puddles, those with certain sensory issues may feel scared at even the thought of it. Flying a kite may bring along with it happy memories for some students, while for others, it brings sadness as it may be something they have never been able to experience.

My Spring Feelings Mini Book for Kids:

Supplies needed:

• My Spring Feelings mini book printable pages. (download here)
• scissors
• pencil or pen
• markers, crayons, or pencil crayons
• stapler and staples

Instructions:

1. Download the My Spring Feelings mini book.
2. Print the pages.
3. Cut apart the booklet pages.
4. Let your student decide how he or she feels about each seasonal activity and draw a corresponding face on the child on that page. Your student can use the Emotions Word Bank for ideas (for words to use and for faces to draw).
5. When your student has completed the book, stack the pages together with the cover on top and staple on the left side to create a little book.

It can be helpful for you to sit down and debrief with the child you’re working with after they fill out their book. This will give you a better understanding of their feelings and allow you to ask further clarifying questions to provide you even more insight.

It is also good practise for them in talking about their emotions in a healthy way with those they trust.

Download your free printable Spring mini book and get this activity started with your child or students. 

Check out these other helpful printable tools for helping kids with their emotions:

Pirate Emotions Playdough Mats

Winter My Feelings Mini Book

Draw & Write Emotions

March is the time of year when winter starts to lift and spring is in the air. It may seem like that would be a welcome thing for everyone, but some kids may have mixed feelings about the change.

They may welcome spring or feel sad about losing their favourite season. They may have mixed feelings about spending more time outside. Or they may be excited about what is to come.

These March emotions printables can help children to both identify and talk about all those different feelings.

March Copywork Emotions Sentences:

Being able to identify and discuss emotions is an important skill to develop in childhood. Kids need to develop a solid understanding of emotions and learn how to effectively express their own.

These printing practise worksheets allow kids to practise their printing while also normalizing talking about emotions. They have a shamrock theme which is perfect for March.

Supplies needed:

• March Emotions printables
• pencil or pen OR
• plastic sleeve AND dry erase marker

Download the printable pages. To make them reusable, laminate the pages or slip them into a plastic page protector. Students can use a dry erase marker to do the tracing and writing.

If you want to just have them be single use, give the student a pencil, crayons, coloured pencils, or markers and the printed papers.

Instructions for the student:

1. Read the sentence.
2. Fill in the outline.
3. Trace the dotted words.
4. Write the sentence on the lines provided.
5. Discuss the different emotions.

These worksheets can be the jumping off point for a discussion with the whole class or one-on-one talk about different emotions. They can be used by teachers, homeschoolers, parents, or therapists.

March Feelings Log:

Keeping a daily log of feelings helps kids to examine their emotions. It also allows them and their teacher or parents to recognize any patterns they see emerging when looking back through the log. This can provide important insight. 

By participating in this daily exercise, kids can normalize talking about their emotions. They may also lay the groundwork that helps get to the root of why they are feeling the way they are.

Doing this at the same time each day can develop a positive habit. 

It may be most helpful to do this in the morning to then be able to adjust activities or expectations based on how the student is feeling or it may be best to do after supper or before bed to reflect on and analyze the day.

Teaching emotions is such a powerful lifelong tool to gift your kids with. 

I’ve created a Feelings Log for March that includes a writing prompt and drawing prompt about spending time in nature and going outside to play, and weekly tracking sheet of “Today I feel” along with sweet little shamrock faces to use to help them better express their emotions.

Supplies needed:

• printed March Feelings Log pages (download here)
• scissors
• markers, pencil crayons, or crayons
• pencil or pen

Enter your email below to get your free March Emotions Printables bundle. You can use this with your child at home or print it off to use with your students in the classroom. 

Our other monthly emotions printables:

• February Emotions Printables
• April Emotions Printables
• May Emotions Printables
• June Emotions Printables
• July Emotions Printables
• August Emotions Printables
• September Emotions Printables
• October Emotions Printables
• November Emotions Printables
• December Emotions Printables