SEL through
MOVE & FEEL
🧠 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.
EMBODIED
Step into emotions through movement and role-play. Children wear, act, and experience feelings—building empathy, confidence, and emotional understanding.
MOVE
Bring learning to life through movement. Children jump, explore, and connect emotions with language and physical activity.
RECONNECT
Support emotional growth through reflection and regulation. Children identify feelings, develop self-awareness, and build confidence as they learn to reconnect.
PLAY
Learn through play-based experiences that combine movement, language, and emotions. Engaging activities that build vocabulary, participation, and connection.
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