Grades K–2
How Would You Feel?
Read eight everyday moments and circle the feeling that fits, then draw a time you felt proud.
SEL worksheet · Feelings and emotions
Comfortable and Uncomfortable Feelings
Sort twelve feeling words into comfortable and uncomfortable feelings. All feelings are okay.
- Grade level
- Grades 1–3
- Time
- About 20 minutes
- Answer key
- Yes, page 2 of the PDF
- Kids practice
- Naming feelings, Emotional vocabulary, Reading facial expressions, Self-awareness
What kids do
Printed on the sheet:
- All feelings are okay. Comfortable feelings feel good in your body. Uncomfortable feelings can feel heavy, tight or jumpy. Everyone has both kinds.
- Write each feeling word in the right box.
- One thing I can do when I have an uncomfortable feeling:
Words on this sheet
joyfuljealousnervousproudlonelycalmhopefulexcitedComfortable feelingsUncomfortable feelings
Teacher tip
Stress that uncomfortable doesn’t mean bad. All the words on the sheet are okay to feel.
How to use it
- Make faces together in a mirror before the sheet: happy, sad, mad, surprised.
- Remind kids that every feeling is okay; it is what we do with it that matters.
- Model your own answer first. Kids open up more when the grown-up goes first.
Watch for
Kids who only use happy, sad and mad. Celebrate new words like frustrated, nervous and proud.
Talk about it
- Can two people feel different things about the same moment?
- Have you ever been in a moment like this? What happened?
Take it further
Start a daily feelings check-in with names on clothespins on a feelings chart.
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More feelings and emotions worksheets
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Feeling Words: Small, Medium, Big
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Grades K–1
Happy, Sad or Mad?
A grown-up reads nine little moments, like a hug from Grandma or a balloon floating away, and kids write each number under happy, sad or mad.
Grades 1–3
Opposite Feelings
Match six feelings to their opposites, like calm and angry or brave and scared, then write about a time a feeling changed to its opposite.
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