Jack-o-lantern emotions - FREE printable

Last October was all about skeletons (this topic is still on and off) but this year E. has found her new favourite Halloween character: the Jack-o-lantern.

Jack-o-lantern Feelings

I made this printable with 6 kinds of different emotions:

• happy
• sad
• angry
• surprised
• cheeky
• scared

You can find this printable at the end of this blog post.

matching the words

I've also made word cards to it in the end, but the picture above shows these little pieces of felt (scrap) and the feelings written on them (with a permanent marker)

What you can do with these cards:

matching the faces

1. Match the picture and the words
2. Match the faces/emotions which are the same
3. Play a memory game with 2 sets
4. Place one set face down on the table. The players choose a card and don't show it to anyone, then make a face expressing that feeling. The other players need to find out what feeling it is.
5. (With bigger kids) Place one set face down on the table. The first player picks up a card and says I feel this when... and need to finish the sentence
6. Identify body parts on the face (eyes, eye brows, nose, mouth)
7. Identify shapes on the faces (This mouth is an oval, The eyes are circles. Can you show me a crescent mouth? What shape is this nose?)

So here is the printable. I hope you'll find it useful:

Jack-o-lantern faces with shapes

Everything centres around pumpkins and Jack-o-lanterns. It seems a never ending story. However, we could revise some shape vocabulary while making Jack-o-lanterns.

If you want to prepare this activity you just need:

• thicker orange felt (or card board - the felt gives another interesting feel of it)
• black construction paper or cardboard or more felt (for the shapes)
• green construction paper (for the leaves)
• brown cardboard (for the stem)
• hot glue gun (or other glue)
• scissors

Preparation:

1.  Draw and cut out the pumpkins from the orange felt (I didn't use a template, just drew 3 similar pumpkin shapes on the felt - I used a dark orange marker - then I cut along the lines)
2. Out of the brown cardboard (which was actually an old postal box) I cut out 3 stems.
3. I couldn't find green construction paper at home so I used some scrap wrapping paper to cut out the leaves.
4. I glued the stem and the leaf on the back side of the orange felt pumpkin 
5. I printed shapes for the eyes, nose and mouths for our Jack-o-lanterns. (Click on the link to find the printable) I copied the picture above in a word document and made it size A4. After having printed it (I can't print on construction paper) I attached it to black construction paper and cut them out (it takes a while but it's worth the trouble)
6. I placed everything in a big envelope and presented to my sweetheart.

Of course, she needed to wear her Jack-o-lantern costume

While she was placing the shapes, she named them. We also matched the same shapes. And talked about feelings expressed by certain mouth forms. (Another post is coming on emotions and pumpkins)

We did this activity again... and again... and again...