The Colour Monster

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Before reading the story, imagine what might happen. What do you already know about the Colour Monster from the original book? Practice drawing faces that show different emotions. Can you draw a happy face? Can you draw an angry face? Use a mirror to see how your facial expression can change to show emotions.

Estamos en tiempos donde cuesta mucho explicar lo que uno siente, el hacerlo con colores es un buen método para que un niño lo pueda comprender de a poco, conocer las emociones y conocerse a el mismo. Don’t forget to explore our ideas and resources based on the original Colour Monster book too! Teaching Ideas and Resources: English The format of the book allows for a conversation with children about managing their feelings 'putting them into bottles' and discussing why they might be feeling a particular emotion.

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From music lessons, to lunchtime, to making new friends, the Colour Monster’s first day of school is filled with exciting new adventures.

At the start of the story, the Colour Monster is feeling confused. When have you felt confused? What did you do in this situation? What can we do when we feel confused in the future? Look at the illustrations of the Colour Monster on the inside covers. Can you draw your own pictures and put them together into a gallery? Write a new book in this series in which the Colour Monster goes to another new place. What adventures could he have? How does music make you feel? Think of different songs/styles of music that make you happy, sad, angry etc. Make a diary to show how you are feeling each day. You could write this or draw coloured monsters to show your emotions.

The next sheet is all about taking time to separate out and honor each feeling. With the My Feeling Jar worksheet you can clearly identify each feeling experienced and how much of each feeling. You can go deeper with young people and identify triggers, how they felt it in their bodies, warning signs of these feelings, and choices that might be helpful vs unhelpful to honor what is going on for them over the week. Love the collage-y illustrations of this picture book, but the text has some troubling issues. While it is vital to teach children to identify their emotions, it is just as important to help them understand that it is normal to feel more than one single emotion at a time, even about the same thing/person/idea. furthermore, labeling emotions with specific colors doesn't work as a one-size-fits-all solution, since color is a very personal experience; people feel very differently about the same color. Telling children that blue is sadness will confuse children who experience blue as tranquility, or power, or curiosity, or any number of other emotions. This book goes so far as to tell children how to experience certain emotions: The Colour Monster makes a big mess before lunch. Can you design a poster to teach him how to wash his hands nicely? Make a list of words that the author links with each colour, e.g. yellow = bright and light, blue = gentle and alone. Can you think of synonyms for these words? Leí este cuento durante una clase y la verdad lo encontré bastante adorable. El monstruo no sabe lo que le pasa y muchos niños tampoco lo saben, están llenos de emociones que no tienen un nombre y no tienen una comprensión y al darle un color, al darle una descripción de acuerdo a ese color se abre una oportunidad muy simple para explicar algo tan complejo.

Use Scratch (or a similar coding platform) to program a monster that changes colour when you press different keys (or when another action takes place). The little girl puts the Colour Monster’s feelings into separate jars. Use the template below to draw things that make you happy/ angry/sad etc. Think of some questions that you would like to ask the Colour Monster about his first day at school. How might he respond? Music is Nuna’s favourite lesson. Think of some exciting musical activities for her to try with the Colour Monster. Think of other emotions and choose colours that might represent them (e.g. frustration, disgust, envy).The Colour Monster doesn’t know what school is. How would you explain it to him? How would you describe all of the things that you can do at school?