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Feelings Collage

Exploring Emotions Through Art

Day 145of 180
Week 29of 36
35Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Identify and express different emotions through art

2

Create a collage showing various feelings using colors and images

3

Understand that God gives us a range of emotions

📖 Scripture Connection

Psalm 139:14

“I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.”

— Psalm 139:14 (WEB)

Celebrates how God creates us with complex emotions and unique abilities to express them

📦 Materials Needed

  • Construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue stick
  • Old magazines
  • Crayons or markers
  • BibleMouse Emotion Word Cards
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (5 min)

Welcome to today's BibleMouse art adventure! Let's talk about the amazing feelings God gives us.

💭 Review Question: What emotions did we explore in yesterday's music art lesson?
2Teaching (10 min)

Exploring how colors and images can show different feelings

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Feelings are a special gift from God
  • Different colors can represent different emotions
  • It's okay to feel many different emotions
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What colors make you feel happy?
  • How does your face look when you're excited?
3Activity: Feelings Collage Creation (15 min)
project

Create a colorful collage showing different emotions using magazine images and words

📝 Instructions:
  1. Choose a large piece of paper
  2. Find magazine pictures that show different feelings
  3. Cut out and arrange the images
  4. Add color with crayons or markers
  5. Write emotion words from BibleMouse Word Cards
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Use pre-cut images and focus on gluing

Challenge: Create original drawings to represent emotions

4Closing (5 min)

Share your feelings collage and talk about the emotions you chose

📝 Review Questions:
  • What emotions did you show in your artwork?
  • How do you think God feels about your unique emotions?

Coming up: Tomorrow we'll explore creating art in nature, celebrating God's beautiful creation!

👨‍👩‍👧 For Parents

Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

First-grade children are learning to identify and express complex emotions

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Be patient and supportive during art creation
  • Encourage exploration of different feelings
  • Use the BibleMouse Resource Guide for additional emotional learning activities
🤔 Common Struggles:

Children might feel frustrated if their artwork doesn't look 'perfect'

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Child's ability to connect emotions with colors and images

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Create a feelings journal with daily emotion drawings
  • Read a BibleMouse storybook about emotions together

Ready for Tomorrow?

Great job completing today's lesson!

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