Joy has a green dress in Inside Out, but green is usually associated with feeling okay and calm.

Can you tell me the names of some emotions we might relate to the colour blue? - Depressed, Sad, Tired Blue is associated with low mood and low energy.

Sometimes we don’t know how we’re feeling, but we know we’re feeling something and having a colour to describe this can be useful rather than having to find the exact, right word.īring out the A3 colour wheel worksheets, and hold them up as you talk about each of the colours.

The colour can act as a code in class or between teacher and tamariki.

Sometimes it’s embarrassing so having a colour to point to or say can really help.

Talking about emotions helps us manage them.

Today we’ll concentrate on the names of emotions and the colours we could associate with them. What’s important too is talking about our emotions and having as many ways to do this as possible. While in the beginning, Joy wanted only joyful memories and thought those were most important, by the end she recognises that it’s important to “feel what needs feeling.” Emotions aren’t bad, they’re emotions, that’s all - and it’s good to experience a full and wide range of them. In fact, did you know there was some real psychological research behind the movie Inside Out? What’s great about the movie is it demonstrates that no emotion is a ‘bad’ emotion. Say: Emotions are often linked to colours.

Here's the trailer that will make you laugh! And here's the trailer where you can really see how great this movie is for tamariki to learn about their emotions! Lead into this activity by showing our favourite movie Inside Out 2015 (Pixar) - it can be downloaded from iTunes for $24.99.

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