Sesame Street: Alvin Ailey Dance – Emotions

This Sesame Street clip has Elmo narrating while professional dancers express distinct emotions through movement. The dancers move differently to portray emotions such as happy, sad, and excited and Elmo guesses which emotion they are displaying. It provides a visual example for children by showing the body language of someone who might be feeling a

Zones of Regulation Song

This catchy song describes the different “Zones of Regulation” which follows a systematic behavioral model for children to use while processing emotions. It uses rhyming to represent each emotion using a color such as red, yellow, green, and blue. It begins with the color we all want to be experiencing which is green and goes

The Scream

The painting known as “The Scream” was done by the famous artist Edvard Munch in 1893. It is known to be less of a technical piece, but a “soul painting” that expresses the inner emotions of the artist. People believe it could be based on a poem in Munch’s diary, where he describes being exhausted