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Colors of my emotions

There are colors of my emotions
Do you know?
Like pearls in an ocean
Do you know?
O, how would you?
You must look into my heart
The acts it performs
Reflect various shades of art
Come, let's see
This palette of colors
You and I
As we learn with joy.

Does it ring the bell on which activity I am talking about? Colors indeed, but not discrete.

Few days back, after the last Hindi matra activity, my brain was working around to decide what to take up next. When Zeel and I sat, I shared her my concern about not sure what to do next.
She threw a couple of ideas, and in one such thought, happen to mention about making heart shaped chits (looking at her dress), picking the chit and going on treasure hunt for action words.

Voila ! It struck a chord within me. Heart represents emotions, colors evoke emotions and the emotions drive actions...............Are you with me? Let's begin !
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## eleze# 10 The colors of my emotions

# Material Used #
1) Heart shaped paper chits - 8 colors
2) Action word paper chits. Refer the image in this post to understand which action words are related to which color.
3) Sheet with mapping of color heart chits and action words
4) A4 sheet/paper with sketch/glitter pens or ball pens

# Color Vs Emotion mapping #
Red - Angry
Green - Happy
Blue - Sad/Sick
Orange - Worried
Yellow - Cheerful
Pink - Compassion
White - Calm, innocent
Black - Scared

# The Activity #
1) Place all the color heart chits in a bowl. ( Prior to this, involve the child in making heart shape cut-outs and coloring those)
2) Hide the action word chits. For one session you may use 8 chits - one for each color heart.
3) Ask the child to pick up a color heart chit.
4) Look at your mapping sheet (for Parent), and ask the child to go searching for the related action word. Note that you must put forth a question related to the action word. e.g. Red - When we are angry what we do ? When we are scared what we do? When we are happy what we do? Give a hint for where to search.
5) Ask the child to write the action word post fixing it with 'ing' five times. e.g. "dancing", "running" etc.
6) You can take up this activity anytime when child wants a break from study.

Initially it takes efforts to make the cut outs, color and create the action word chits. Once done, these can be reused any time.

Zeel enjoyed the hunting part as always. And she asked me about the connection between the colors and action words. Which I explained to her. E.g. After weekend holidays when one has to go to school or office on Monday, we say " I am having Monday blues". So Blue stands for sadness. "Mom was seeing red when she saw high electricity bill. " So Red stands for anger.

Another point worth mentioning here. Why I have taken 8 colors and not more? It took me a lot of time researching on color and emotion mapping. Although there are sites which relate color and emotions in same way, there are many others where the emotion related to a specific color is different. To make things simple, associate the action words appropriately to the color , I made it down to 8 colors.

Enjoy the activity !









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