Polaroid Monthly Mood Tracker: Journalling about BIG Feelings

‘Polaroid Mood Tracker’ has been designed to support children and young people with identifying their feelings and emotions.

It is a monthly journal that covers 31 days to track BIG feelings throughout the month. This resource works to support positive mental health and wellbeing.

The idea is to encourage the child or young person to record all the emotions that they have felt throughout the month. It is about learning to scale our emotions and reflect on how they make us feel and behave. The children or young person will begin to identify patterns in how they are feeling.

How could this resource be used?

To support emotional regulation.
To support emotional literacy.
To support with identifying different emotions.
To support a child 1:1.
To support with spotting patterns of BIG feelings over time.

Relevant Curriculum Links

England PSHE Statutory Curriculum Strands:

KS1: H18 – different things they can do to manage big feelings, to help calm themselves down and/or change their mood when they don’t feel good.
KS2: H20 – how to manage and respond to feelings appropriately and proportionately in different situations.

Scottish Health and Wellbeing Curriculum Outcome(s):

I am aware of and able to express my feelings and am developing the ability to talk about them. HWB 0-01a / HWB 1-01a / HWB 2-01a / HWB 3-01a / HWB 4-01a.
I know that we all experience a variety of thoughts and emotions that affect how we feel and behave and I am learning ways of managing them. HWB 0-02a / HWB 1-02a / HWB 2-02a / HWB 3-02a / HWB 4-02a.
I understand that my feelings and reactions can change depending upon what is happening within and around me. This helps me to understand my own behaviour and the way others behave. HWB 0-04a / HWB 1-04a / HWB 2-04a / HWB 3-04a / HWB 4-04a.