Activities for Grown Ups

Here are some simple activities you can try with Mooshuns to support social emotional learning. You can use your Mooshuns for these activities or try them with one of our postcard or photo sets. If you want to buy any of these items, please visit our Product page .

It’s best to explore social emotional learning when children are calm and relaxed. If a child is experiencing a strong emotion, it is hard for them to think about anything else. Focus on the moment and supporting the child to process the emotion. Revisit the moment later on and reflect on the feelings that occurred.

It's important to talk about the full spectrum of feelings. Talking about negative emotions can better prepare children for times when they experience those feelings.

You can download a handy word list to help support children’s social emotional learning here . It has over 100 words, carefully chosen to match the many moods of the Mooshuns.



• Encourage your child to use a Mooshun to show you how they feel when they have a feeling, mood or emotion they can’t describe.
• Choose a Mooshun. Talk about words which describe the feeling, mood or emotion of the Mooshun.

Sort your Mooshuns into groups:
  • good and bad feelings
  • feelings that are alike
  • feelings that are opposites.

• Choose a Mooshun. Describe an event or story from your own life when you felt the same as that Mooshun. Draw a picture of that event or story.
• Look at pictures or photographs. See if you can match them to the feeling, mood or emotion of a Mooshun.
• Choose a Mooshun. Make up a short story to explain how it came to feel that way.

Use Mooshuns as a rating or reviewing system for:
  • books you read
  • films or TV programs you watch
  • games you play
  • activities you do together.

• Talk as a family or group about the feeling, mood or emotion of a Mooshun. Tell stories about times you each felt that way.
• Use Mooshuns to identify or describe the feelings, moods or emotions of another family member or a friend.
• Find words on the word list to describe the feelings, moods or emotions of different Mooshuns.
• Write a sentence inside a thought bubble to describe what a Mooshun is thinking.
• Write a sentence inside a speech bubble for what a Mooshun might be saying.
• Make pairs of feelings words that are opposites.
• Make groups of feelings words that are similar in meaning. Order those words according to their intensity – from lowest to highest.