Feeling Disappointment
You might feel this "heavy" organ in your chest feel a little bit "sinking" when you get bad news.
What is your heart?
This "fluffy" weather object is a great thing to imagine your sad/disappointed feelings floating away on.
What is a cloud?
Dropping your toast in the morning?
Glitch
You open a "Blueberry" muffin only to find out these tiny, wrinkly dried grapes are inside instead.
What are raisins?
Your favorite ice cream shop is out of chocolate. What can you do?
What is try a new flavor?
When you are disappointed, your eyebrows might go down and the corners of this go down too.
What is your mouth (or a frown)?
You can do this "counting" activity up to 10 to give your brain time to calm down.
What is counting slowly?
If a problem can be fixed in a few minutes, it is usually a _______ problem.
Small
This is the "hollow" feeling you get when you open a big bag of potato chips only to find it's 70% filled with this.
What is air?
You got a lower grade than you wanted on a test. The best move is to ask the teacher for this "H" word.
What is help?
Sometimes disappointment feels like "butterflies" or a "tight knot" in this middle part of your body.
What is your stomach?
This 4-step breathing technique is named after a shape with four equal sides
What is Square Breathing (or Box Breathing)?
Losing your favorite toy might feel like a "huge" problem, but because it can be replaced, it’s actually this "M" word.
Medium
You finally get to the front of the line at the park, only to see this "Yellow" sign that means the ride is taking a break.
What is "Out of Order" (or Under Repair)?
Your best friend can't come over to play. You could ask your parents if you can do this over a video call instead.
What is FaceTime / Video Chat?
This is the liquid that might come out of your eyes when a disappointment feels too big to hold inside.
What are tears?
Doing this physical activity—like a jog or a dance—helps release "happy chemicals" in your brain.
What is exercise (or moving your body)?
This 5-letter word describes a truly "big" problem, like an emergency, where you definitely need an adult's help?
Crisis
This is the disappointment of building a huge LEGO tower, only to realize you forgot to put this at the very bottom.
What is the baseplate?
You dropped your drawing and it got a big smudge. What can you turn that smudge in.
What is new art (or a "beautiful oops")?
Scientists say that feeling disappointment is actually a "social" one of these, meant to help us learn and adapt.
What is an emotion?
This is a "quiet place" in your classroom to go feel safe?
What is a calm-down corner?
Asking yourself "Will this matter in one week?" is a great way to judge this, a word for how big a problem really is.
Scale
It’s the "coldest" disappointment: You go to take a bite of a delicious-looking cookie, but it's actually one of these, made of plastic.
What is play food (or a toy)?
You didn't get the toy you wanted for your birthday. A "resilient" kid focuses on being this for the gifts they did get.
What is grateful?