The ‘Emotion’s Synonyms Bookmark’ board has been designed to support children and young people with identifying their feelings and emotions. 

Sometimes it is difficult to identify exactly how you are feeling. As adults, we can struggle to find the words. However, this word mat has been made as a starting point for discussions surrounding children and young people’s emotions.

This is a great tool for children and young people to utilise to describe their feelings but can also be useful in their Literacy lessons and more.

This resource features The Scribbles Crew, a group of friendly-looking emotions characters that can be created by any child. They are just that: scribbles!

How could this resource be used?

• To support emotional regulation.
• To support emotional literacy and identifying different emotions.
• To support a child 1:1.
• To support all children as part of a classroom display.

Which statutory England PSHE curriculum* objectives does this resource fall into?

*in line with the PSHE Association 2021 Statutory Guidance.

• KS1: H12 – to recognise and name different feelings.
• KS2: H19 – a varied vocabulary to use when talking about feelings.

Scottish Health and Wellbeing Curriculum Outcome: Mental and Emotional Wellbeing – I am aware of and able to express my feelings and am developing the ability to talk about them.