Color Emotion Posters | Feelings & Coping Strategies | SEL Calm Corner Visuals

Help children recognise what they are feeling and choose a helpful next step with this bright, visual Color Emotion Posters set! These colour-coded social emotional learning posters make feelings vocabulary and emotion regulation strategies easy to see, discuss and use throughout the day.

Each colour group introduces a range of feelings with the child-friendly prompt “When I am… I feel…”, followed by a matching Strategies poster. Students can begin to connect how their body and brain feel with practical, supportive choices they can try.

Perfect for a calm corner, regulation space, school counselling office, classroom wall, morning meeting, SEL lesson, special education classroom, autism support setting, speech therapy room, homeschool space or visual support binder.

What’s Included

This resource includes 8 core posters, each provided in four visual formats:

• Full-color posters with real-photo people
• Full-color posters with diverse, child-friendly clipart
• Full-color posters in clipart illustrations
• Printer-friendly blackline clipart posters for easy ink-saving printing or student colouring

Feeling Posters

These real-photo feeling posters help children recognize and name different emotions while building emotional awareness and vocabulary.

• When I am LOW… I feel…
• sad, tired, lonely, bored, disappointed, and unwell
• When I have BIG feelings… I feel…
• angry, furious, frustrated, overwhelmed, panicked, and out of control
• When I am BUSY… I feel…
• excited, silly, nervous, worried, restless, and unsure
• When I am CALM… I feel…
• happy, calm, proud, focused, confident, and safe

Matching Coping Strategy Posters

Each feelings poster includes a matching strategy poster with simple, child-friendly ideas children can use to understand what their body needs and respond to different emotions.

• LOW Feeling Strategies: talk to a trusted adult, take a quiet break, hold a comfort item, listen to calm music, read quietly, and rest and recharge
• BIG Feeling Strategies: stop and take slow breaths, ask an adult for help, take space, squeeze a fidget, move safely, and count down to calm
• BUSY Feeling Strategies: take a movement break, use a fidget, take slow belly breaths, check what’s next, ask for help, and find a quiet space
• CALM Feeling Strategies: keep learning and trying, use kind words, help a friend, make a good choice, take care of my body, and celebrate my effort

Why You’ll Love It

• Makes emotions visible, concrete and easier to name
• Gives children practical coping strategies instead of simply telling them to calm down
• Includes realistic photo visuals and inclusive clipart options
• Supports visual learners, early learners, ESL/EAL students, AAC users and students who benefit from direct SEL teaching
• Offers blackline versions for low-ink printing, colouring activities or student workbooks
• Creates a cohesive, colourful display for your calm corner or emotional regulation area

Use the posters for class discussions, check-ins, individual support plans, counselling sessions, regulation breaks, social stories, feelings lessons and daily emotional vocabulary practice.

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