Kids Journal
How I Feel Today
A Draw-and-Name Journal for Little Kids
Children who use this journal give their feelings a home on paper — before they can spell them out.
For children ages 5-7 who can draw before they can write. One prompt per page. Space to draw and space to write one word or one sentence.
The Name It First Experience
Feelings do not wait for reading and writing to develop — they are there at five, at six, at seven, and a child who has no place to put them carries them differently than a child who does. How I Feel Today gives children ages 5 to 7 one prompt per page — how do you feel today? — with space to draw it first and space to write one word or one sentence if they have one, building the daily practice of putting feelings somewhere before they have the vocabulary to explain them. This journal is for the young child who draws before they write — and for the parent or teacher who knows that naming a feeling changes how a child carries it. A Draw-and-Name Journal for Little Kids gives every feeling a home on the page.
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Sample questions
- How do you feel today — can you draw what that looks like?
- What happened today that made you feel the biggest feeling?
- What makes you feel happy that you could show with a drawing?
Research basis
Grounded in Denham (1998) emotional competence in early childhood / Brackett (2019) emotional labeling research / drawing as early emotional expression (Cox, 2005) for pre-literate children.
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