💛 Feelings Animals Faces
Las caras de los animalitos
💛 Social-Emotional
Emergency
SEL.K.1SL.K.6
✨ AI-generated
Objective: Child identifies and names different emotions by pretending to be animals showing those feelings.
🧺 Materials
None needed — just the two of you.
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Tell your child you will play a feelings game with animals — no materials needed.
- Call out an animal and a feeling (for example, a sad puppy or a happy cat) and let your child act it out with their face and body.
- Ask them how they can tell the animal feels that way (droopy ears, big smile).
- Let your child invent their own animal-feeling for you to guess.
- End by asking which feeling their own face is making right now.
➕ Extension ideas
- Draw one of the animal faces together after the game.
- Add fall animals like squirrels or bears getting ready for winter.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
¡Vamos a jugar a ser animalitos con sentimientos! Tú vas a poner tu carita y tu cuerpo para mostrar cómo se siente el animal. ¿Puedes ser un perrito triste? ¡Ahora un gatito muy feliz!
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Cómo sabemos que el animalito está triste?
- ¿Qué hace el animalito feliz con su cuerpo?
- ¿Qué animal quieres ser tú ahora y cómo se siente?
- ¿Cuándo te sientes tú así de feliz como el gatito?
- ¿Qué podemos hacer para ayudar al animalito triste?
🔑 Vocabulary
- triste — sad
- feliz — happy
- enojado — angry
- asustado — scared
- perrito — puppy
- gatito — kitten
- carita — little face
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Do just three quick animal-feelings, then ask how your child feels.
🚗 Car version
Call out animals and feelings from your seats; describe faces out loud since you can't turn around.
😴 No-energy version
Snuggle and just make the feeling faces at each other while naming them in Spanish.
🎯 California standards covered
| SEL.K.1 | Knowing Myself “I can name how I feel and tell what I am good at.” |
| SL.K.6 | Speaking Clearly “I can speak clearly so others can understand my ideas.” |