Social Emotional Learning
Movement, Mimic & Play
Fomentando el aprendizaje socioemocional a través del movimiento, la imitación y el juego
🧠 Skills Developed
- Emotional awareness
- Self-regulation
- Confidence and self-expression
- Physical coordination and movement
- Bilingual language development
🎯 Learning Flow
Children are guided through a simple process:
Move, Mimic, Recognize, Express, Regulate
This flow supports emotional growth in a way that feels natural and supportive.
🏫 Where It Can Be Used
Curriculum Move is designed for:
- Classrooms
- Therapy sessions
- Homeschool environments
- Play-based learning spaces
🌍 Bilingual Learning
Each activity supports both English and Spanish language development, helping children connect emotions with words through movement and play.
☀️ A Positive Ending
Every experience ends with:
“I feel happy! / ¡Me siento feliz!”
Helping children leave the activity feeling confident and emotionally supported.
🎉 Experience
Bring movement into learning and support children as they grow emotionally through play.
👉 Explore Curriculum Move
👉 Discover the Social-Emotional Hopscotch Game
5 Emotion
Finger Puppets Set
Characters: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust
Material: Soft felt finger puppets with expressive embroidered faces
Language Support: English and Spanish labels
Target Skills:
- Emotion role-play
- Empathy-building
- Bilingual expression
- Turn-taking and communication
Activities:
🔹 Puppet Circle Talk: Each child wears a puppet and speaks “as the emotion.” Example: “I’m Anger. I feel hot when…”
🔹 Feelings Story Skits: Use puppets to reenact classroom scenarios and brainstorm how each emotion might respond.
🔹 Emotion Hide & Seek: Hide puppets around the room. When a child finds one, they act out that feeling.
🔹 Match the Moment: Children share a personal story and pick which puppet matched their reaction.
🛏️ Pillows & Calm-Down Corner Pillowcases
Theme: Cozy visuals with characters and scenes
Activities:
🔹Feeling Hug Time: Pick a pillow, name the feeling, and hug it while taking deep breaths.
🔹Emotion Toss: Toss a pillow; whoever catches it must say a situation that fits the emotion shown.
🔹Mindfulness Routine: Use pillows to teach breathwork and emotional reset.
🔹Quiet Corner Reset: Combine pillow, book, and rug zone for 5-minute calm-down moments.
🪑Bean Bag
Chair Cover – Emotional Galaxy
Theme: Colorful space to support calming and regulation
Activities:
🔹 Galaxy Breathing: Sit back and imagine floating through the emotions in color order (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple).
🔹 Color-Based Storytelling: “Tell me a story from the yellow part… what happened that made you feel joy?”
🔹 Movement + Sit: After a motor break, use the chair as the cool-down zone.
🏠Tufted
Floor Pillows
Theme: Emotions as large visual, tactile seating cues
Activities:
🔹 Emotion Stations: Place pillows in corners; rotate through them with expressions or scenarios.
🔹 Feelings Relay: Run to the pillow that matches how a story character feels.
🔹 Feelings Theater: Sit on a pillow and act out the emotion.
🔹 Sticky Card Match: Use sticky emotion characters as flashcards to find their matching pillow.
🌈Round
Emotion Rug
Theme: Interactive play with bilingual emotion labels
Activities:
🔹 Freeze Dance & Mimic: Move around the rug and freeze on emotion cue.
🔹 Feel + Move: Each color has a move: Red = stomp, Yellow = hop, Blue = curl, etc.
🔹 Rug Yoga Routine: Each section leads a calming pose.
🔹 Emotion Spinner: Use a spinner to pick a section and do the associated activity.
🔹 Group Circle Time: Share “I feel ___ when ___” while standing on a matching zone.
Assessment & Reflection
✔ Color Your Feeling: Children color an outline of the 5 characters to show which one matched their day.
✔ My Emotion Journal: Add a printable sheet for students to reflect:
“Today I felt ___ because ___.”
✔ Thumbs Up / Down / Middle: Quick, kid-friendly way to check comfort level after emotional discussions or activities
Reflection Prompts:
- “What did you learn about your feelings today?”
- “How did someone else’s feelings help you understand your own?”
- “Was there a time you felt calm after being upset? What helped?”
For more inspiration on how to bring these tools to life, watch this video and explore hands-on ideas to engage young learners with empathy, creativity, and joy.
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