The Kindness Journey

The Feelings Garden is grey. Not dead, just grey, as if someone has turned the colour down. In the middle stand seven tall flowers, and each one has a face.

The wind blew hard in the night. Now seven wooden labels lie scattered in the mud: happy, sad, cross, worried, surprised, scared and calm. Granny Daisy used to know which label went where, but her glasses are lost somewhere in the hay barn.

First, a choice: 3 options

• Start with the eyebrows
• Start with the mouths
• Start with the two that look alike

On the printed page: Draw a line from each flower to its label, then write the clue on the line underneath.

By the end they have: Feelings flower set with clues; Read the signs added to the toolkit.

You will need: The flower page and labels (cutting optional) · A pencil · A mirror (optional, for checking faces)

1. Look at the seven flower faces on the page and pick your starting clue: eyebrows, eyes or mouth.
2. Match each flower to a feeling label. Draw a line, or cut out the labels and lay them on.
3. For every match, write or say the clue that gave it away, such as eyebrows pulled down.
4. Find the two trickiest flowers and explain to someone how you told them apart.
5. Check Poppy's answer key, printed upside down. A different answer with a good clue still counts.

Smaller step if needed: Match four flowers (happy, sad, cross and surprised) and leave the tricky three for another day.

The grown-up’s part: Sit beside your child rather than across the page. If they choose a different label from the key, ask about their clue before anything else.

During one meal this week, quietly spot one feeling face at the table, then tell someone afterwards which clue gave it away.

What it practises: Practise reading seven feelings from faces, including worried and surprised, and naming the clue that gives each one away.