A Little Spot of Feelings and Open Green

Featured Book: A Little Spot of Feelings: Emotion Detective by Diane Alber
Featured Artwork: Open Green by Vassily Kandinsky

In A Little Spot of Feelings: Emotion Detective by Diane Alber, you can discover different ways to understand feelings. Colors are assigned to emotions to help you visualize how you feel. When you see yellow, how do you feel? When you see blue, how do you feel? 

Artist Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944) painted Open Green using exciting colors and shapes. How do you feel as you look at each of the colors? What emotions could the shapes represent? Do you see a representation of a person in this artwork? If so, how is the person feeling based on the shapes and colors? 

Think about the feelings that you have had today. Using finger paints on paper, create an emotional landscape. Use different colors to represent your feelings throughout the day. Use shapes to show emotions. What will you name your artwork? 

If you don’t have access to the featured book, select something similar from your child’s book shelf or your local library. Many of the books are also available as read-aloud videos online.