Feelings & Emotions Play Dough Mats for SEL Activities

Help children explore, identify, and talk about their emotions in a fun and engaging way with these Feelings and Emotions Play Dough Mats. This hands-on social-emotional learning activity encourages learners to build facial expressions with play dough while discussing different feelings.

These sensory-based mats support emotional literacy, communication, and fine motor development, making them a valuable tool for classrooms, therapy settings, and home learning environments. Children can shape facial features with play dough to represent different emotions, helping them better understand how feelings look and how they can be expressed.

Learning Focus:

• Recognise and name a variety of emotions
• Develop emotional awareness and social-emotional skills
• Strengthen fine motor skills through play dough activities
• Encourage conversations about feelings and self-expression

Emotions Included:

• Happy
• Sad
• Angry
• Annoyed
• Surprised
• Shocked
• Upset
• Worried
• Shy
• Calm

Perfect For:

• Social-emotional learning (SEL) activities
• Calm-down corners and emotional regulation tools
• Home learning and homeschool activities
• Early childhood classrooms
• Therapy and special education settings

These interactive emotions play dough mats provide a creative, tactile way for children to practice identifying feelings while developing important social and emotional skills.

Purchase includes:

• 10 Play Dough Mats (PDF File), two cards per page, cut in half to use
• 2 Size Options for Printing:
  : US letter paper (8.5”x11”)
  : A4 paper (210x297mm.)

You will receive both sizes to choose from 

Download the PDF, print, and laminate for reusable emotional development activities that are both fun and educational.

Please note that colour quality depends on the printer ink used.