💛 Feelings Animal Faces
Las caras de los animalitos
💛 Social-Emotional
Emergency
SEL.K.1WL.K.1
✨ AI-generated
Objective: Child identifies and names different emotions by acting them out as animals.
🧺 Materials
None needed — just the two of you.
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Tell your child to pick a favorite animal and pretend to be it.
- Name a feeling (happy, sad, scared, angry, sleepy) and have them show that feeling as the animal with their face and body.
- Let them invent their own animal-feeling combinations and you guess what feeling it is.
- Take turns so your child guesses your animal-feeling too.
- Finish by asking how THEY are feeling right now and which animal matches.
➕ Extension ideas
- Draw the animal showing its feeling with whatever paper and crayons are nearby.
- Make up a tiny story about why the animal feels that way.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
¡Vamos a jugar a ser animalitos con sentimientos! Escoge tu animal favorito y muéstrame cómo se ve cuando está feliz, triste o asustado. Yo voy a adivinar qué siente tu animalito.
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Qué animal quieres ser hoy?
- ¿Cómo se ve tu animalito cuando está contento?
- ¿Qué hace tu animalito cuando está triste o enojado?
- ¿Cómo te sientes tú ahora? ¿Qué animal eres?
- ¿Qué podemos hacer para que el animalito se sienta mejor?
🔑 Vocabulary
- feliz — happy
- triste — sad
- enojado — angry
- asustado — scared
- cansado — tired
- animalito — little animal
- sentimiento — feeling
- cara — face
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Name just two feelings and have the child show each one as one animal.
🚗 Car version
Play it verbally: you say a feeling, child makes the animal sound and face for it from their seat.
😴 No-energy version
Cuddle up and just take turns naming an animal and a feeling out loud, no acting needed.
🎯 California standards covered
| SEL.K.1 | Knowing Myself “I can name how I feel and tell what I am good at.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |