Round rice cakes make a great base for a face that can show different emotions and generate some healthy talk about feelings.

Materials:

• Rice cakes
• Spreading knife
• Peanut butter or cream cheese
• Raisins
• Apple slices
• Bananas

Directions:

Let each child spread a rice cake with peanut butter or cream cheese. That's the foundation for a face.

What kind of feeling would the children like to make on the rice cake faces? Raisins could be used for eyes, noses or mouths. An apple slice can make a smiling or frowning mouth. A banana slice could be a surprised mouth or eyes.

You may want to ask the children to talk about what makes them feel angry, sad, surprised, scared or happy.

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