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[ The movie starts off]

[voice-over] "Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside their head? Well, I know. Well, I know Riley's head."

[ we see Riley as a new born baby, we then see inside her mind where Joy is formed]

[ Joy sees an orb being form with the memory of her looking up at her parents]

[ She puts the core memory back and it lights up headquarters.]

[ Suddenly Baby Riley begins crying]

[ in Riley's mind we see Sadness standing next to Joy touching the control console]

[ She extends her hand to Joy and they shake hands]

Joy: "Oh, hello. I'm Joy, so. Can I just, if you could...I just want to fix that."

[ Joy tries to push Sadness out of the way of the control console]

Joy: "Thanks."

Joy: [voice-over] "And that was just the beginning. Headquarters only got more crowded from there."

[ We see Riley a few years older running around her house playing, while in her mind there is Fear, Joy and Sadness]

Fear: "Very nice. Okay, looks like you got this. Very good. Whoa, sharp turn...! no, look out, no!"

[ He pushes Joy out of the control console to take over]

[ We see Riley hesitate as she reaches a lamps electric cord lying on the ground]

[ Riley carefully places her feet over the cord to avoid tripping on it]

[ A purple memory came through.]

[ Joy takes over the control console and Riley continues to play and run around the living room. Riley is sat in her high chair being fed broccoli by her parents]

[ Inside her mind Riley's emotions are watching through her eyes]

Joy: "Hm, this looks new."

Fear: "Think it's safe?"

Sadness: "What is it?"

Disgust: "Okay, caution. There is a dangerous smell, people. Hold on. What is that?"

Joy: [voice-over] "This is Disgust. She basically keeps Riley from being poison, physically and socially."

[ As they watch Riley's dad trying to feed her broccoli]

Disgust: "That is not brightly colored. Or shaped like a dinosaur. Hold on guys. It's broccoli!"

[ She quickly presses the control button on the console and Riley flips the plate of broccoli aside in disgust]

[ It lands on her dad's face and also a green memory comes through.]

Disgust: "Well. I just saved our lives."

Disgust: "Yeah, you're welcome."

Dad: "Riley, if you don't eat your dinner, you're not gonna get any dessert."

Anger: "Wait. Did he just say we couldn't have dessert?"

Joy: [voice-over] "That's Anger. He cares very deeply about things being fair."

[ Anger stomps over to the control console in Riley's mind]

Anger: "So, that's how you want to play it, old man! No dessert? Oh, sure! We'll eat our dinner! Right after you eat this!" [He flips the control as his head blows out fire.]

[ Riley starts to throw a trantum in anger. A red memory came through.]

Dad: "Riley, Riley. Here comes an airplane."

[ Anger stops being angry and steps aside]

[ Riley's dad manages to use the airplane trick to feed Riley the broccoli and yellow memory orb is formed.Sadness stands next to Joy as they watch Riley being fed by her dad]

[ We see Riley crying on a variety of days showing Sadness taking over her emotions. Like broken toy, spilled ice cream, tantrum at the store, and wanted out of her car seat.]

[ She goes over to the memory orbs]

[ She watches a memory of Riley and Maggie going down the slide and she replays it.]

[ She goes over to a hub in the middle of the headquarters.]

[ We see Riley playing ice hockey with her parents and celebrating after she scores a goal.]

[ We see the core memories powering five islands.]

[ We see memory of Riley as she runs away from her dad as he tries to put clothes on her and she goofballs around to get away from him.]

[ We see Riley and Maggie playing with each other.]

[ We see Riley holding up a hammer and fixing a broken glass.]

[ We see Riley feeding dad a cookie.]

[ We see Riley growing up and making memories along the way with Joy being the main organizer.]

[ Joy watches through Riley eyes as she getting ready to sleep and they closed.]

[ The emotions watch as the memory orbs are taken away]

[ The next day the emotions watch as Riley's family house is sold]

[ The emotions watch in horror as a removal truck takes the furniture and drives off]

[ Riley and her parents drive to San Francisco]

[ Referring to the cars honking their horns as Riley and her parents are stuck in traffic]

[ She plays Riley's fantasy of what their new house will look like, first one is a house with a massive slide going along the side of it]

[ Referring to a house made on top of a tree]

Joy: "Ooh, this will be great for Riley. Oh! No, no, no, this one."

[ She shows them a house made out of cookies]

Disgust: "Joy, for the last time, she cannot live in a cookie."

[ The next house is a castle with a dragon flying above it]

[ Riley's dad pulls up outside their new house, Riley gets out of the car and looks up and look clearly disappointed when she sees their house]

[ As Riley enters the house, she looks around while the emotions talk in her head. Riley sniffs the air and maons in disgust.]

[ A green memory orb appeared.]

[ Dissolve to a dead mouse]

[ Fear jumps onto Anger's head]

[ Anger blows fire off his head which makes Fear jump off as it sets fire to his backside]

[ Riley quickly goes to see her new room which is just as bad as the rest of the house]

[ Joy looks in dismay as more memory sphere are made based Riley's feelings on the new house and room]

[ As Riley goes down to get her stuff from the moving van she overhears her parents.]

[ As they watch this through Riley's eyes.]

Fear: "Our van is lost? It's the worst day ever!"

[ Joy watches as Riley makes more bad memories.]

[ As Riley watches her parents arguing over the lost van Joy gets an idea.]

[ Riley starts playing hockey with a piece of balled up paper]

[ Her dad joins in the game.]

[ She puts up her hair.]

Joy: "Uh-oh. She's putting her hair up. We're in for it."

[ Mom is the guard, and the parents have a pile. A yellow memory orb appeared. The game gets interrupted by a phone call.]

[ Riley watches her dad in dismay as he talks on the phone]

Dad: You're kidding. Alright. Stall for me, I'll be right there.

[ to Riley and her mom]

[ he kisses her and waves to Riley]

[ Dad turns and leaves the house]

[ as she goes to take over the control console Joy stops her]

[ Riley and her mom are at the pizza place, the girl at the counter hands over a pizza with broccoli on top]

[ as Riley and her mom walk back to their house]

[ Joy feels relief as Riley and her mom continue to bond]

[ Joy quickly brings up the memory on the control console]

[ to her mom as she recalls the memory]

Riley: I like that time with the dinosaur, that was pretty funny.

[ suddenly Riley's becomes sad and her memory clouds over]

[ the emotions turn to see Sadness touching the memory]

Fear: She did something to the memory.

[ Joy takes the memory orb]

[ Riley and her mom are approaching a large sidewalk stairwa y]

[ Riley gets ready to slide down the banister when she suddenly looks sad and step off]

[ suddenly a memory orb slides over and hits Joy on her leg]

[ suddenly Goofball Island stops working]

[ Joy puts the core memory back into its place and Goofball Island starts working again, Riley cheers up and slides down the banister]

Sadness: It's just that, I wanted to maybe hold one.

[ Sadness goes to pick up another memory orb]

[ Joy pushes Sadness's hand up to stop her]

[ Joy starts laughing as she remembers]

[ Sadness falls onto her face crying]

[ she takes Sadness over the manuals]

[ she picks up a manual and opens to read it]

Joy: Long Term Memory Retrieval Volume 47.

[ she give the manual to Sadness]

[ reads from the manual]

[ Joy walks off looking worn out from trying to cheer Sadness up. A green memory orb rolls in and Joy's face falls with a groan.Riley walks down the stairs and watches her parents, her mom is busy cleaning up the house and her dad is on the phone with his work]

[ Riley goes back to her bed looking upset that her parents are so busy]

Fear: Did you hear Dad? He sounded really upset.

[ suddenly a car outside goes by with a loud engine making Riley scared]

[ we see Riley sleeping on the floor in her sleeping bag]

[ the emotions watch as Riley's mom comes to her room to say good night]

[ looking disheartened Joy goes to the side while the other emotions take over the controls]

[ Joy comes over to take over the controls]

[ Riley smiles]

Riley: Yeah, sure. What did we do to deserve you?

[ she kisses Riley good night, turns off the light and gets up to leave]

[ Riley closes her eyes to sleep]

Joy: Looks like we're going into REM. I've got dream duty so I'll take care of sending these to long term. Great day today, guys. Oh, sleep well, team Happy.

[The team heads off to bed. Harp music plays.]

Joy: All right. What's on tonight, Dream Production?

[On the screen, a dream comes up.]

[The family flies happily through the air in the car. They land in front of the house...]

Dad: Well, this is it. The new place.

[...except it's haunted! Organ music. Ghosts howling. The dead mouse rises up into frame.]

Mouse: Come live with me, Riley. [grunts]

Bear: Somebody order a broccoli pizza?

Pizza Guy 1: Eat me!

Pizza Guy 2: I'm organic!

[ after Joy sees that Riley is having a nightmare about her move the new house and city]

Joy: [sighs] No! Who is in charge of programming down there? I know I'm not supposed to do this, but...

[ she turns off Riley's nightmare]

Joy: We are not going to end the day like this.

[ Joy brings up a core memory so that Riley can dream ice skating with her family]

Joy: Don't you worry. I'm going to make sure that tomorrow is another great day. I promise.

[ the next morning Joy is playing "Reveille" on the accordion to wake up the other emotions]

[ she throws the accordion aside]

[ spots the train heading towards them]

[ Joy draws a circle with a chalk around where Sadness is standing]

Sadness: So, you want me just to stand here?

[ they watch as Riley's mom helps her to get off to school]

[ she presses a button the console]

[ Riley starts doing a monkey impression and her parent join in]

[ Riley is sat in class in her new school and notices some girls talking]

[ back in school, Riley's teacher enters the classroom]

[ with Joy controlling the console, Riley stands to introduce herself to the class]

[ the teacher laughs and Joy starts laughing too]

[ suddenly her memory of skating with her parents turns sad]

[ the emotions turn and see Sadness is touching one of Riley's core memories again]

Joy: Hey, Sadness! You touched a memory? We talked about this.

Sadness: Oh, yeah, I know. I'm sorry.

Joy: Get back in your circle. [she tries to get the core memory out but it's stuck] What's going on?

Fear: Get it out of there, Joy.

Joy: Why won't it eject?

[ back in class, Riley gets sadder, nearly in tears]

[ Riley cries in class as she feels sadder]

[ Joy sees Sadness on the console]

[ Joy pulls Sadness away from the console]

[ suddenly a blue core memory drops down]

[ as the core memory is going towards the core memory holder]

[ Joy grabs the sad core memory and tries to dispose of it]

[ Sadness tries to take it from Joy]

[ in trying to pull away from Sadness Joy knocks down the other core memories]

[ this shuts down the personality islands and as Joy tries to put the core memories back she, Sadness and the core memories are sucked through the memory tube and sent to the rest of Riley's mind]

[ back in class Riley sits back down]

Teacher: Thank you, Riley. I know it can be tough moving to a new place, but we are happy to have you here. Alright, everyone. Get out you history books and turn to chapter 7.

[ back in headquarters, Anger, Fear and Disgust are left alone looking shocked]

[ Joy and Sadness exit the tube and find themselves in long term memory]

Joy: Where are we? Long term memory? Wait.

[ Joy finds the personality islands have shut down]

Sadness: You. You're not in Headquarters. Without you, Riley can't be happy. We gotta get you back up there.

[ they start running to make their way back to headquarters]

[ Riley and her parents are sitting, having dinner]

[ the emotion watch through Riley's eyes again]

[ he moves Disgust to stand by the console]

Mom: Wouldn't it be great to be back out on the ice?

[ Disgust touches a button on the console and Riley's answer comes out as sarcastic]

Riley: Oh, yeah. That sounds fantastic.

[ to Disgust]

[ insides Mom's mind her emotions discuss Riley's sarcastic response]

Mom's Sadness: Did you guys pick up on that?

[ the other emotion agree]

[ to Mom's Joy, who is controlling the console]

[ he presses a button on the console and Riley replies to her mother with doubt]

[ to Mom's Joy]

[ trying to get Dad's attention]

[ inside Dad's mind we see he's distracted as his emotions are watching the memory of a hockey game]

[ Dad notices Mom trying to get his attention]

[ referring to dad]

[ Mom gets dad's attention and he suddenly realizes what she wants him to do]

[ moving Disgust and Fear aside from the console]

Anger: Move! I'll be Joy.

[he presses a button on the console and Riley replies to dad in a snarky angry way]

Riley: School was great. Alright?

Mom: Riley, is everything okay?

[ Riley rolls her eyes and sighs]

[ Anger punches Fear to the side and bangs the console button]

[ Riley answer back to her dad in anger]

[ Riley's Anger goes into overdrive]

[ to Dad's Disgust]

[ they turn the keys on the console to unlock the foot]

Dad's Fear: Ready to launch on your command, sir.

[ Anger pulls the lever, the top of his head erupting in flames, and Riley snaps at her dad]

[ Dad's Fear pushes the red button that releases the foot down]

[ Riley stomps to her room in anger]

Dad's Fear: The foot is down! The foot is down!

[ Dad's other emotions chee r]

Dad's Anger: Good job, gentlemen. That could've been a disaster.

[ after dad has told Riley off]

Mom's Sadness: Well, that was a disaster.

[ Mom's Anger brings up the core memory of the Brazilian helicopter pilot]

Helicopter Pilot: Come. Fly with me, gatinha.

[ Mom's emotions all sigh in longing]

[ Riley gets inside the room and angrily slams the door; inside her mind, a brief tremor shakes Family Island]

[ back with Joy and Sadness who have gone through Goofball Island and are contemplating the bridge connecting the island to Headquarters]

[ later as Riley is sulking in her room dad comes to check on her]

[ the emotions go over to look at Goofball Island but it's still shut down, as the core memories are missing it's unable to activate, and instead crumbles and falls into the abyss, nearly taking Joy and Sadness with it]

Dad: I get it. You need some alone time. We'll talk later.

[ he leaves the room]

[ back with Joy and Sadness]

[ as the look across]

Sadness: Oh, we'll never make it.

Joy: No, no. No, no, no, no. Don't obsess over the weight of life's problems! Remember the funny movie where the dog dies!

[ Sadness suddenly collapses]

Joy: Oh, Sadness. We don't have time for this. We'll...we'll just have to go around. Take the scenic route.

[ Joy starts walking towards the labyrinthine storage area of Riley's long term memory]

[ as she's dragging Sadness by her leg through the long term memory corridors]

[ Joy turns right]

Sadness: No, I mean go left. I said left was right like correct.

[ Joy goes the opposite way]

[ sometime later as Joy looks exhausted still dragging Sadness through long term memory]

Joy: This is not working. Are we getting close?

Sadness: Yeah, just another right. And a left. And then another left and a right.

Sadness: Oh, sorry. I...I won't. Starting now.

[ Joy looks back and sees the rows of core memories that sadness had touched as she was being dragged]

[ as Joy encounters some mind workers]

Mind Worker #1: Phone numbers.

Mind Worker #2: Oh.

Mind Worker #1: We don't need all these, they're in her phone.

Mind Worker #2: Just forget all of that, please. [he hoovers up the core memories containing phone numbers]

Joy: Excuse me. Hi!

Mind Worker #2: Forget it!

Joy: I need to find Friendship Island.

Mind Worker #1: Look at this. Four years of piano lessons.

Mind Worker #2: Yeah, it looks pretty faded.

Mind Worker #1: You know what? Save Chopsticks and Heart and Soul, get rid of the rest. [the other mind worker hoovers those core memories] US presidents. What do you think?

Mind Worker #2: Just keep Washington, Lincoln and the fat one.

Mind Worker #1: Forget em! [the other ones hoovers those core memories]

Joy: Hey! You can't throw those away! Those are perfectly good memories.

Mind Worker #2: The names of every Cutiepie Princess doll?

Joy: Yes. That is critical information. Glitter storm, Honey pants...

Mind Worker #1: Forget em! [the mind worker hoovers them up]

[ referring to the hoovered memories]

[ he holds up a core memory of Trident Gum's annoying commercial song]

[ they laugh]

[ the mind workers start singing along to the gum commercial song]

[ back with Riley, who's humming the gum commercial song under her breath as she talks to her friend Meg on her laptop]

[ Meg holds up a photo of the girl on her phone]

[ Anger starts growling in anger]

[ Anger grabs the levers on the console, Fear tries to stop him]

Fear: Wait, wait, wait! Let's just be calm for one second...!

[ Anger makes Fear fall back, he then pulls the levers on the console as his head catches fire, we then see Riley getting angry as she listens to Meg]

Riley: I gotta go! [She shuts her laptop in anger]

[ Joy watches in horror as Friendship island crumbles down]

[ Joy sighs in frustration]

Joy: We'll just have to go the long way.

[ Joy starts to drag Sadness by her leg again]

Joy: There's gotta be a better way. [after Joy and Sadness encounter Bing Bong] Excuse me.

Bing Bong: Oh. Ah! I was...I was looking for diversion! [he grabs a core memory and throws it across]

Joy: What?

Bing Bong: Ha-ha! So long, sucker! [Bing Bong goes to run off but smacks into a tray of core memories and falls down] Ow. I hurt all over.

Joy: Wait, I know you.

Bing Bong: No, you don't. I get that a lot. I look like a lot of people.

Joy: No, no, no. I do. Bing Bong! Riley's imaginary friend.

Bing Bong: You really do know me?

Joy: Well, of course! Riley loved playing with you. You two were best friends! Oh, oh. You might know. We're trying to get back to Headquarters.

Bing Bong: Headquarters? You guys are from Headquarters?

Joy: Well, yeah. I'm Joy. This is Sadness.

Bing Bong: You're Joy, the Joy?

Joy: Mm-hmm.

Bing Bong: Well what the heck are you doing out here?

Joy: That's a good question. You want to answer that, Sadness?

Bing Bong: Wow. Without you, Riley won't ever be happy. We can't have that. We gotta get you back. I'll tell you what, follow me.

Joy: Thank you. It is so great to see you again. I gotta tell you, I'm such a huge fan of your work. Do you remember when you and Riley were in a band? I went to all of your concerts.

Bing Bong: Yeah. I blow a mean nose.

Joy: Watching you play tag was such a treat.

Bing Bong: Two time room champ.

Joy: Oh, and remember your rockets.

Bing Bong: Of course, it runs on song power.

Joy: That's right. Your theme song. [starts singing] Who's your friend who likes to play?

Bing Bong: Bing Bong! Bing Bong!

Joy: His rocket makes you yell "Hooray!"

Joy and Bing Bong: Bing Bong! Bing Bong! [they both laugh]

Sadness: What exactly are you supposed to be?

Bing Bong: You know, it's unclear. I'm mostly cotton candy. But shape wise, I'm part cat, part elephant, part dolphin.

Joy: Dolphin?

[ he starts making a sound like a dolphin]

Bing Bong: You gotta remember, when Riley was three, animals were all the rage. The cow goes meow, the horse goes oink. It's all people talked about back then.

Joy: Yeah, yeah. I guess that's true. What are you doing out here?

Bing Bong: Well, there's not much call for imaginary friends lately. So, I... Um, you know? [he looks sad]

Joy: Hey. Hey. Don't be sad. Tell you what. When I get back up to Headquarters, I'll make sure Riley remembers you.

Bing Bong: You will?

Joy: Of course. She'd love that.

Joy: Are you okay?

[ referring to Bing Bong's tears which are candy]

Sadness: Hey, what's going on?

Bing Bong: I cry candy. Try the caramel, it's delicious.

Joy: Ooh. [as Joy goes to try one she nearly drops the core memory spheres]

Bing Bong: Here use this. [he gives Joy his bag]

Joy: Thanks.

Bing Bong: Oh, hold on. Wait a second. [he empties it, and a huge amount of memory spheres drop out from the tiny bag] Here. [Joy and Sadness look shocked] What? It's imaginary. [putting the core memories into Bing Bong's imaginary bag]

Joy: Thanks. This will make it a lot easier to walk back to Headquarters.

Bing Bong: Walk? We're not walking. We're taking the Train of Thought.

Joy: The Train! Of course. That is so much faster, but how do we catch it?

Bing Bong: Well, it kind of goes all over the place, but there is a station in Imagination Land. I know a shortcut. Come on, this way.

Joy: Oh. I'm so glad we ran into you.

Bing Bong: The station is right in here. After you.

Sadness: Joy.

Sadness: Well, I read about this place in the manual. We shouldn't go in there.

Joy: Bing Bong says it's the quickest way to Headquarters.

Sadness: No, but, Joy, this is abstract thought.

Sadness: Let...let's go around. This way.

Bing Bong: Almost there.

Joy: If you want to walk the long way, go for it. But Riley needs to be happy. I'm not missing that train. [Joy enters into abstract thought] Bing Bong knows what he is doing. He's part dolphin, they're very smart.

Sadness: Well, I guess. [reluctantly Sadness enters in as well]

[ the two mind workers come up to the abstract thought entrance]

Mind Worker #1: Okay. What abstract concept are we trying to comprehend today?

Mind Worker #2: Um, loneliness.

Mind Worker #1: Hm. Looks like there's something in there. I'm gonna turn it on for a minute and burn out the gunk. [she shuts the door; inside abstract through Joy and Sadness follow Bing Bong]

Bing Bong: What did I tell ya, you'll be in Headquarters in no time. [suddenly abstract thought becomes activated rendering everything into abstract form] Hey, will you look at that?

Joy: Whoa. What's happening?

Sadness: Oh, no. They turned it on.

Bing Bong: Never seen this before.

[ as he turns his form becomes abstract too scaring Joy and Sadness]

Bing Bong: [touching his abstract shaped face] My face! My beautiful face!

[ both Joy and Sadness have now turned into an abstract form]

Joy: What is going on?

Sadness: We're abstracting! There are four stages. This is the first. Non-objective fragmentation!

Bing Bong: Alright, do not panic. What is important is that we all stay together. [suddenly his abstract arm falls off]

Joy: Oh! [Sadness and Joy start falling apart too]

Sadness: We're in the second stage, we're deconstructing! [as Bing Bong falls to pieces]

Bing Bong: I can't feel my legs! [picks one leg up] Oh, there they are.

Joy: Come here, me!

[ they start putting their abstract pieces of body back together]

[ they hear the train approaching the station]

[ as they start making their way towards the exit door they turn 2 dimensional]

[ as she tries to get her 2D body through the exit door]

[ they suddenly change into figurative shapes]

[ they change shape again]

Sadness: Wait, we're two dimensional! Fall on your face!

[ as they all become 2D they exit abstract thought but miss the train]

Joy: Stop! Stop! No! [after they missed the train] I thought you said that was a shortcut!

Bing Bong: I did! But, wow! We should not had gone in there, that was dangerous, they should really put up a sign!

Joy: How long till the next train?

Bing Bong: Who knows? But don't worry, there's another station, that way. The Train always stops there, right before it goes to Headquarters. If we hurry, we can catch it.

Joy: This isn't another one of your shortcuts, is it?

Joy: Is there really another station?

Sadness: Uh-huh. Through there.

[ as they enter Imagination Land]

Bing Bong: Welcome to Imagination Land.

Joy: Imagination Land?

Bing Bong: Sure, I come here all the time. I'm practically the mayor. Hey, you guys hungry? There's French Fry Forest.

Joy: No way!

Bing Bong: Check it out! Trophy Town. Medals, ribbons, everyone's a winner! [as he gets a bunch of trophies] I won first place!

Joy: Me too!

Sadness: [She just gets a badge] Oh. Participation award.

[ as they jump across some lava]

Joy: Oh, no! Lava!

Bing Bong: Imagination Land is the best.

Sadness: Oh, has it all gotta be so interactive.

Bing Bong: Hey, look! The House of Cards. Ooh, wait. Hang on just a minute. [he finds his rocket]

Joy: Your rocket.

Bing Bong: Yeah. I stashed it in there for safekeeping. And now I'm all set to take Riley to the moon! [he extends his arm in excitement and accidentally knocks down the house of cards being built by two mind workers] Oh, I'm sorry.

Mind Worker: Great.

Joy: Oh, I love Imagination Land.

Bing Bong: Isn't it great? And there's always something new like... Who the heck is that?

Mind Worker: Imaginary boyfriend.

Imaginary Boyfriend: I would die for Riley.

Bing Bong: Wow. I've never seen him before.

Imaginary Boyfriend: I live in Canada.

Bing Bong: Anyway, this way, through Preschool World. We're nearly to the train.

Joy: Riley, here we come. Woo-hoo!

[ back with Riley, she's about to do the tryout for the hockey team]

Mom: This should be fun. New team, new friends. There kids looked pretty good, considering they're from San Francisco.

Riley: Got to go.

Mom: Okay. Good luck, sweetie!

Disgust: Luck isn't going to help us now. If she tries to use Hockey Island, it's going down.

Fear: Which is why I've recalled every hockey memory I can think of. [he dumps down several memory orbs]

Disgust: One of these is gotta work in place of the core memory. [as Riley is about to start playing hockey for the tryout]

Anger: She's about to play!

Disgust: Hurry!

[ Fear places a memory orb into the hub and goes to see Hockey Island being activated]

Fear: We did it, gang. It's working! [suddenly the hub rejects and throws out the memory orb and Hockey Island stops working, Fear tries to stuff as many memory orbs into the hub but they were all rejected]

Disgust: It's like we don't learn anything. [after Riley misses hitting into the goal]

Anger: That's it!

Fear: No, no, no. Breathe. Find your happy place.

[ Anger hits Fear aside then pulls the console levers, Riley drops down her hockey stick and storms off in anger to take off her hockey skates]

Mom: Riley, what's wrong?

Riley: Let's go!

Mom: You're not going to finish try outs?

Riley: What's the point?

Mom: Hey, it'll be alright. Let's just go back....

Riley: Stop saying everything will be alright! [Riley stomps off in anger]

[ as they watch Hockey Island crumbles and falls into the Abyss]

Joy: Hockey! Oh, no, no. She loves hockey. She can't give up hockey. Bing Bong, we have to get to that station.

Bing Bong: Sure thing. This way, just past Graham Cracker Castle. Hey, that's weird. Graham Cracker Castle used to be right here, I wonder why they moved it. I would have sworn Sparkle Pony Mountain was right here. Hey, what's going on?

Joy: Yeah, yeah. I don't know. We'll have to come back.

[ as he sees a memory worker taking away his rocket]

[ the rocket is taken dumped onto a pile of other obsolete memories]

Joy: Hey, it's gonna be okay. We can fix this. We just need to get back to Headquarters. Which way to the train station?

Bing Bong: I had a whole trip planned for us.

[ to the dejected and heartbroken Bing Bong]

[ after he's cried in Sadness's arms]

Bing Bong: I'm okay now. Come on. The train station is this way. [he sets off with Sadness and Joy following him]

Joy: How did you do that?

Sadness: Well, I don't know. He was sad so I listened to what...

Bing Bong: Hey! There's the train.

[ the three of them get onto the train]

Joy: Oh, we made it. We're finally gonna get home! [after she accidentally knock down two boxes containing facts and opinions] Oh, no. These facts and opinions look so similar.

Bing Bong: Ah, don't worry about it. Happens all the time. [after the failed hockey tryout Riley sulks in her room]

Disgust: On a scale of one to ten, I give this day an F.

Anger: Well, why don't we quit standing around and do something.

Disgust: Like what, genius?

Fear: Like quitting. That's what I'm doing. Sure, it's the coward's way out. But this coward's gonna survive.

[ Fear tries to go up the tube but he gets knocked out]

Disgust: Emotions can't quit, genius.

Anger: Hey, our life was perfect. Until Mom and Dad decided to move to San Fran stink town!

Fear: But, I mean, it's just so drastic.

Anger: Need I remind you of how great things were there. Our room. Our backyard. Our friends. [suddenly the gum commercial song starts playing] Did I ask for the gum commercial?! Anyway, it was better. That's my point.

Disgust: Yeah, Riley was happier in Minnesota.

Fear: Wait. Hold on. Shouldn't we just sleep on this or something?

Anger: Fine, let's sleep on it. Because, hey, I'm sure jolly fun-filled times are just around the corner. [we see Riley falling asleep]

[ as Riley falls asleep the train stops]

[ back in headquarters Fear is watching Riley's dream]

[ Fear watches Riley's dream as they show her teeth falling out as she was introducing herself in class and the student making fun of her]

[ back to Riley's dream]

[ as they dress up in the dog costume getting ready to crash Riley's dream]

Joy: Ready?

Sadness: I don't think this happy thing is going to work. But if we scare her...

Joy: Just follow my lead. Here we go. [they crash the dream running around in the dog costume] Bark, bark, bark, bark...

Dream Director: Who is that?

Fear: Uh, what's going on? [as Joy's attempt to infiltrate Riley's dream goes wrong]

Dream Director: They're trying to wake her up. Call security.

[ suddenly Bing Bong shows himself in her dream]

[ they watch as Riley's sleepmometer starts to swing closer to awake]

Dream Director: [to the subconscious guards pointing to Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong] They're not part of this dream. Get them.

Subconscious Guard Frank: Stop right there!

[ they guards capture Bing Bong; to the camera which is supposed to be Riley]

[ the camera pans away and we see Rainbow Unicorn getting caught eating cupcakes]

[ Joy and Sadness watch as the guards drag Bing Bong away to Riley's subconscious]

Joy: No, no, no, no, no, no! There go the core memories.

Bing Bong: Not in there. I'm scared of the dark, please!

Joy: [to Sadness] Come on. What is this place?

Sadness: The subconscious. It's where they take all the troublemakers.

[ Joy and Sadness hide to watch the guards keeping guard outside subconscious gates]

Subconscious Guard Frank: My hat feels loose.

Joy: [to Sadness] How do we get in?

[ Sadness leads Joy off]

[ as the guards argue Joy and Sadness try to break open the gates catching their attention on purpose]

[ they push Joy and Sadness through the gates and into subconscious]

Sadness: Oh. I don't like it here. It's where they keep Riley's darkest fears. [they run into a giant broccoli]

Joy: It's broccoli! [then a door opens with stairs leading down somewhere]

Sadness: The stairs to the basement!

Joy: Grandma's vacuum cleaner! [a giant vacuum cleaner chases after them]

[ they find Bing Bong crying inside a cage made out of balloons]

[ they see Bing Bong is on top of a giant sleeping clown]

Joy: It's Jangles. [Joy sneaks up to Bing Bong as Jangles sleeps] Do you have the core memories?

Bing Bong: Yeah. All he cared about was the candy. [he hands the bag of core memories to Joy]

[ Joy helps Bing Bong escape and away from Jangles]

[ Joy and Sadness look at the snoring Jangles]

[ Joy and Sadness wake Jangles up]

[ Jangles starts stomping around and following them]

Joy: Nothing like a good scare to wake you up, right? [still arguing over their hats]

Subconscious Guard Dave: Okay, it's my hand writing.

Subconscious Guard Frank: No, it isn't. It's my hat, I wrote that.

Subconscious Guard Dave: No, but this one's my hat.

[ suddenly Jangles breaks through the gates and Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong escape and finally Jangles scares Riley awake and the trio get back on the train]

Disgust: [as Riley wakes Disgust and Anger also wake up to find Fear huddled under the console] What is going on?

Anger: He did it again!

Fear: We were at school, and we were naked and there was a dog, the back half was...was chasing it, and there was a Bing Bong!

Anger: You idiot! It was a dream! This is ridiculous! We can't even get a good night sleep anymore. Time to take action. [he picks up an idea lightbulb] Stupid Mom and Dad. If they hadn't moved us none of this would have happened. Who's with me?

Fear: Um, um, um, um. No, no, no, no.

Disgust: Yeah. Let's do it.

[ Anger plants the idea to run away in Riley's head and she takes it]

[ we see Riley checking for bus tickets on her computer]

Anger: There is a bus leaving tomorrow, perfect.

Disgust: A ticket cost money. How do we get money?

Anger: Mom's purse.

Disgust: You wouldn't.

Anger: Oh, but I would. Where was it we saw it last? [the gum commercial song comes into Riley's head again] No! It's downstairs somewhere. Mom and Dad got us into this mess, they can pay to get us out.

Bing Bong: [to Joy and Sadness as they ride on the Train of Thought] How about this? Huh? Isn't this nice? You can see everything from up here. Look, there's Inductive Reasoning. There's Deja Vu. There's Language Processing. There's Deja Vu. There's Critical Thinking. There's Deja Vu. And look at this, guys, memories!

Joy: Hey. That was a good idea. About scaring Riley awake. You're not so bad.

Sadness: Really?

Joy: Nice work. I can't wait to get the old Riley back. As soon as we get there, I'm going to fix this whole mess. [looking at one of the memory orbs]

Bing Bong: Woah, is this Riley? She's so big now, she won't fit in my rocket. How are we gonna get to the moon?

Joy: Oh, it's that time in the twisty tree, remember? The hockey team showed up and Mom and Dad were there cheering. Look at her, having fun and laughing. I love this one.

Sadness: I love that one too.

Joy: Atta girl! Now you're getting it.

Sadness: Yeah. It was the day the Prairie dogs lost the big playoff game. Riley missed the winning shot, she felt awful, she wanted to quit. Sorry. I went sad again, didn't I?

Joy: I'll tell you what. We can keep working on that when we get back, okay?

Sadness: Okay.

[ after Riley steal her Mom's credit card this causes Honesty Island to collapse this in turn destroys Train of Thought]

Joy: Honesty Island? That was our way home. We lost another island? What is happening?!

Mind Worker: Haven't you heard? Riley is running away.

Joy: What?

Fear: [as Riley is packing to run away] Wait, wait. Hang on, guys. Are we really doing this? I mean, this is serious.

Anger: Look, we have no core memories. You want Riley to be happy? Let's get back to Minnesota and make more.

Sadness: Joy, if we hurry we can still stop her.

Joy: Family Island. Let's go! [as they start running towards Family Island the ground starts shaking]

Sadness: Joy. Joy! It's too dangerous. We won't make it in time.

Joy: But that's our only way back!

[ the ground shakes again and Joy notices a memory orb being shot through the recall tube]

[ as they try to get into the recall tube Sadness accidentally touches the core memory orbs in Joy's bag]

[ Joy gets into the recall tube, closes it and gets headed towards headquarters but as Family Island collapses this causes the tube to break and Joy ends up in Abyss and as Bing-Bong attempts to help her he also falls]

[ inside the Abyss Bing-Bong finds Joy attempting to climb up the cliff multiple times but failing]

Bing Bong: Joy. Joy, what're you doing? Will you stop it, please. Don't you get it, Joy! We're stuck down here! We're forgotten.

[ Realizing this makes puts Joy on the verge of tears. She picks up some forgotten core memory orbs']

Joy: Do you remember how she used to stick her tongue out when she was coloring? I could listen to her stories all day. I just wanted Riley to be happy. And now...

[ Sobbing, Joy picks up a memory orb that Sadness had told her she liked in which Riley lost a Hockey Game for the team and felt awful is being comforted by her parents]

Sadness: [voice-over] It was the day the Prairie dogs lost the big playoff game. Riley missed the winning shot, she felt awful. She wanted to quit.

Joy: Sadness. Mom and Dad. The team. They came to help because of sadness. We have to get back up there.

Bing Bong: Joy, we're stuck down here. We might as well be on another planet.

Joy: Another planet. [Joy has an idea and begins to sing to call on Bing-Bong's rocket that was dumped down there earlier] Who's your friend who likes to play? Who's your friend who likes to play?

Bing Bong: His rocket makes you yell Hooray! [they finally hear Rocket respond and run toward it] Who's the best in every way, and wants to sing this song to say. Who's your friend who likes to play? Bing-Bong. Bing-Bong. His rocket makes you yell Hooray! [Joy and Bing-Bong use Rocket to launch themselves up but fail as they are too heavy, Bing-Bong also sees his arms turning to dust as he's being forgotten] Come on Joy, one more time. I got a feeling on this one. [they get into Rocket and start singing again] Louder! Louder! Joy, sing louder! [as they launch up Bing-Bong, at the last minute, leaps off as Joy sings]

Joy: We're gonna make it! [Joy finally reaches the cliff and lands on top] Woo-hoo! Bing-Bong, we did it! [she turns and sees that Bing-Bong is not there] We... Bing-Bong? Bing-Bong! [Joy looks down the cliff to see Bing-Bong is still in the Abyss]

Joy: I'll try, Bing Bong. I promise.

[ back in the real world Riley's mom and dad come home to find Riley's not there]

Mom: We're home! Riley? Riley! I'll call her cell.

[ the remaining emotions watch as Riley is walking to the bus station]

Fear: Oh, this is terrible. Wait, is that someone walking towards us? Let's cross the street. [Riley gets a call from her mom] It's Mom! She's on to us!

Disgust: What do we do?

Fear: Where's my bag? [Fear finds his bag and starts breathing into it]

Anger: Riley needs to get core memories. We keep going.

[ Riley ignores the call from her mom]

[ Joy starts looking for Sadness]

Joy: Oh, everything is awful and my legs don't work. And you have to drag me around while I touch all the... [Joy suddenly sees all the memory orbs Sadness has touched, leaving a trail so she starts following them]

Disgust: [as Riley is about to get in line to get onto the bus her mom calls her again] Oh, no. It's Mom again. What do we do?

[ Riley turns off her phone]

Anger: This is madness! She shouldn't run away!

Disgust: Let's get this idea out of her head. [Disgust tries to pull the lightbulb out of its slot in the console]

[ Joy finally finds Sadness]

Joy: Sadness? Sadness!

Joy: Wait! Sadness!

Sadness: Just let me go! Riley is better off without me!

Joy: Come back! [Joy follows Sadness through Imagination Land]

[ inside Imagination Land]

[ suddenly Joy bumps into her as she's running after Sadness]

[ Sadness is on cloud crying as she's flying away]

[ back at headquarters Anger is trying to pull the lightbulb out of the console]

[ the console starts to black over]

[ Fear takes over the console]

[ they start shoving each other]

[ back in Imagination Land Joy runs over to Imaginary Boyfriend]

Joy: Hey! Hey, look at me. Did you mean what you said before.

Imaginary Boyfriend #1: I would die for Riley. I would die for Riley.

Joy: Yeah, yeah. Okay, haircut. Time to prove it. [she shoves Imaginary Boyfriend into her bag then creates more monotonous imaginary boyfriends]

Imaginary Boyfriend #2: I would die for Riley.

Imaginary Boyfriend #3: I would die for Riley.

Imaginary Boyfriend #4: I would die for Riley.

Imaginary Boyfriend #5: I would die for Riley.

[ each one gets thrown off the conveyor belt and lands inside Joy's bag]

[ as Joy uses a balloon to blow Sadness on her cloud and in the process collapses the house of cars the mind workers were building]

[ Joy then uses the imaginary boyfriends to climb on top of each other and she climbs right on top of them]

Joy: This is crazy. This is crazy. No, no, no. Joy, be positive. [she then looks at the trampoline remaining on Family Island] I am positive this is crazy! [she sees Sadness floating on her cloud up ahead] Now! [she uses the imaginary boyfriends to fling her herself onto the trampoline]

Imaginary Boyfriends: For Riley!

[ Joy then grabs hold of Sadness]

[ suddenly Joy and Sadness crash against headquarters window and slide down but Sadness manages to stop them from falling]

Disgust: It's Joy.

Anger: Stand back! [Anger throws a chair at the window but it just bounces off of it]

Disgust: That worked.

Anger: Well, what would you do if you're so smart?!

Disgust: I'd tell you, but you're too dumb to understand.

Anger: What!

Disgust: Of course your tiny brain is confused. Guess I'll just have to down it down to your level. Sorry I don't speak more but as well as you, but let me try. Duh.

[ Anger blows his top in anger and as the fire erupts Disgust uses it to burn a hole through the window to rescue Joy and Sadness]

[ Joy notices Riley sitting on the bus as it pulls away]

[back at home Riley's parents are frantically calling around trying to find Riley]

Mom: Alright. Thank you, we will. [to dad] Her teacher hasn't even seen Riley all day!

Dad: What?

Mom: What was she wearing last?

Dad: I can't believe this.

Mom: Do you even remember what... [just then Riley enters through the front door and they rush over to her] Riley!

Dad: Hey, there you are. Thank goodness.

Mom: Oh, we were worried sick. Where have you been? It's so late!

[ Joy hands Sadness all of the core memories, causing them to become sad, then Sadness inserts them into the projector which causes Riley to think about them and make her cry in front of her parents.]

[ Riley's parents embrace her as she cries, then Sadness beckons Joy over, the two simultaneously touch the console button causing Riley to create a memory in her parent's arms which then creates a new core memory that's a mixture of Sadness and Joy which then recreates a new Family Island]

Fear: [as they look out from headquarters we see new islands have formed] Hey, I'm liking this new view.

Anger: Friendship Island has expanded. Glad they finally opened that friendly argument section.

Sadness: I like Tragic Vampire Romance Island.

Disgust: Fashion Island! Everyone shut up.

Fear: Boy Band Island? Hope that's just a phase.

Joy: Say what you want, I think it's all beautiful. [after the mind workers have finished installing a new larger console]

Fritz: Alright. Here you go. Your new expanded console is up and running.

Joy: Wow.

Disgust: Cool. Upgrade.

Joy: Whoa. [when he accidentally touches a button on the console]

Fear: Whoops. Wait, did I just do that?

Disgust: Hey, guys, what's "PUBERTY". [she points to the button labelled on the console]

Joy: I don't know. It's probably not important.

Fear: Sorry, I did it again. My bad.

Disgust: They're getting to the rink.

[ we see Riley and her parents are at an ice hockey game and Riley is getting ready to play with the team]

[ as they watch Riley with her parents]

[ inside dad's head it shows his emotions celebrating; referring to mom]

[ all the emotions sigh, then Mom's Anger throws the core memory orb containing the memory of the Brazilian helicopter pilot aside, but Mom's Fear grabs it]

[ as Riley is about to head to ice rink she bumps into a teenage boy and he drops his water bottle, Riley picks it up to hand it to him]

Riley: Sorry.

[the kid looks shocked, we go inside his head where all his emotions are in chaos panicking about speaking to a girl]

Alarm: Girl! Girl! Girl! [as the boy just keeps on staring at Riley]

Riley: Uh... Okay. Bye. [she places the water bottle under his arm and walks to the ice rink giving him one last look]

[ as Riley is about to start playing hockey with her team]

[ mid-credits scene; we're in Riley's classroom with the teacher and the other kids]

Teacher: And who can tell me what year San Francisco was founded? Anyone? Jordan.

Jordan: Uh...

[we go inside the teacher's head to see her emotions all looking fed up and bored]

Teacher's Fear: How much more of this?

Teacher's Sadness: Five months, two weeks and four days until summer vacation.

Teacher's Joy: Then it's off to the Bahamas with you know who! [she brings up the core memory of the Brazilian helicopter pilot who Riley's mom also had a memory of]

Helicopter Pilot: Come. Fly with me, criancinha.

[the emotions sigh as they watch him] [next we see the girl working at the pizza place that Riley and her mom had gone to when they first came to San Francisco]

Pizza Girl: Have a nice day. [we go insider her head to see her emotions]

Pizza Girl's Disgust: What are we mad about?

Pizza Girl's Anger: I don't know. Whatever Troy's mad about.

Pizza Girl's Disgust: What's Troy mad about?

Pizza Girl's Anger: I don't know. I don't know.

[ the other emotions grunt in agreement]

[ next we see the cool girl in Riley's class]

[ we then go inside her head to see her emotions]

[ next we see a clown at a kid's birthday party]

Clown: Who's the birthday girl? Huh? Hey! Hello?

[ we go inside the clown's head to see his emotions]

[ as he brings down a core memory suddenly Trident Gum's annoying commercial song starts playing in his head which makes all the emotions heads fire up in anger]

[ next we go inside a dog's head as he smells the pizza a guy is eating as he walks past him]

[ we see the dog chasing after the man now]

[ last mid-credit scene; we see the emotions inside a cat's head which show the emotions all doing their own thing then Cat's Fear jumps onto the console touches a button which sets off the cat to jump up in fear and rush away]

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The movie starts off] [voice-over] "Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside their head? Well, I know. Well, I know Riley's head."

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There are so many ways to use a set of emotions cards with children, at home and school. These activities are particularly valuable as children are learning to recognise and regulate their own feelings and emotions, as well as learning to recognise and empathise with the emotions of others.

Today I am sharing a free set of 12 printable emotions cards and eight fun game suggestions you can play with them. These are great to play with preschoolers right through to school aged children.

8 Ways to Play & Learn With Emotions Cards

1. Making Faces
Place a set of cards face down on a stack. Turn over the top card. Have your child name the emotion and make a face to match.

2. Guess the Emotion
Spread out a set of cards face up. Take turns to choose a card but don't tell the other players which you have chosen. Make a face and see if the other players can guess which card you chose.

3. The Way I Feel Story Game
Spread out a set of cards face up. Take turns to choose a card but don't tell the other players which you have chosen. Tell a short story about a time you felt like that and see if the other players can guess which card you chose.

4. Matching Emotions
Print two sets of the cards (complete with the backing pattern on the reverse side) to make your own Concentration style matching game. To play, spread out all cards face down. Take turns turning over two cards at a time. If you find a match, you keep that pair of cards.

RELATED: Check out the other handy resources in our Feelings & Emotions Resource Library.

5. Story Emotions
Lay out 3-4 cards. Using a small figurine, tell a short story about the toy. For example - "Peppa's balloon popped." Ask your child to put the figurine on the card that shows how Peppa would feel if this happened.

6. Positives and Negatives
Sort a set of cards into positive and negative emotions. Discuss why each emotion is in the nominated group.

7. Supporting Our Friend's Emotions
Choose an negative emotion and talk about ways to speak to and support someone who we can see feels this way. Practice saying these words by role playing being a friend who supports the emotions of others.

8. Emotions Snap
Print multiple copies of the cards (complete with the backing pattern on the reverse side) to make your own Snap game card pack - you'll need at least four sets. Shuffle the cards for a game of Snap.

To print your Emotions Cards

Download the Emotions Cards PDF here: Feelings and Emotions Matching Cards. The PDF includes 12 emotions cards and a backing sheet to be printed on the back of the cards. Print the cards onto matte photo paper or lightweight cardstock. Re-insert the card sheets into the printer and print the backing paper on to the reverse side of these pages. Cut out the cards and laminate for durability.

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Christie Burnett is a teacher, presenter, writer and the mother of two. She created Childhood 101 as a place for teachers and parents to access engaging, high quality learning ideas.

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There are so many ways to use a set of emotions cards with children, at home and school. These activities are particularly valuable as children are learning to recognise and regulate their own feelings and emotions, as well as learning to recognise and empathise with the emotions of others.

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It had been a long, boring day and by 3.30 both of my children were having arguments and getting emotional about the smallest upsets. We were venturing into melt-down territory.

I had several deadlines to wrap up before close of business and I was frantically trying to pack for a camping trip. However amidst all the sibling chaos I hadn't managed to get much done. I found myself getting tenser and more ticked off every time they complained about each other. I was irritated and on the verge of being a snappy mama! It took this intense moment for me to realise that it was not my children's fault I was stressed. I had to stop and re-evaluate the situation.

They needed me. In my busyness, I hadn't actually sat down to connect with them at all.

Connect With Your Children Through Play
Children behave and function better when they feel connected and loved. In a child's eyes, playtime with a parent or loved one is a very special and cherished time. Children just love when adults leave their grown up duties to come and spend quality time with them, when you follow their lead and interact in a playful way at their level. What better platform for building a strong emotional bond then through play.

When you connect through play you offer your child time to de-stress, cease power struggles and to feel a greater sense of control. This restores the balance and connection between you. Even after a rough day, involving yourself in play can provide a much needed opportunity to re-connect.

In order to restore the balance between my arguing children and control my own frustration I needed to stop everything, for just 15 minutes. I switched off from work mode and offered them my attention in a playful way, "You guys don't seem to be having much fun at the moment, why don't we get some blue water and see if we can make a lake in the sand pit?" I tried to say it in my most enthusiastic, playful mama voice. They both jumped and yelled, "Yes!"

Children Learn Through Play
Playtime can also be utilised as an intentional time to develop emotional awareness. Just by involving yourself in their play and following their lead you are showing your child that you are interested in their current interests, feelings and concerns. After all "Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning" (Fred Rogers) and through play children learn about their world, their place in it, and their emotions.

No devices or distractions and my full attention was all it took for my children to calm down, connect and initiate conversation about all the chaos that had been happening prior to our play intervention. They had time to re-centre, they had all my attention and love, they felt safe because I was at their level playing with them and able to guide their conversation. We talked about how they had been feeling and what they could do about it. It didn't take much and they started talking respectfully to each other and reflecting on the day.

If you are at their level being involved, following their lead, listening to them and playing; then you will have a fabulous opportunity to pay attention to their play themes, open communication and their emotional awareness.

Exploring Emotions During Play Time
Emotional awareness a concept parents often don't explore until it surfaces in an extreme form; during power struggles, extreme outbursts, tantrums, aggression or during times of heightened stress. As I did on this day, parents often forget that emotional awareness and the ability to control emotions is an abstract notion that children are still learning. It is something they need help with.

It can be difficult to "teach" as emotional awareness is mostly learnt through experience and observation. Being emotionally aware is an important step in the development of empathy and emotional intelligence. Parents can start exploring emotional awareness with children from a young age simply by labelling and discussing feelings during play.

9 Ways to Explore Emotional Awareness Through Play

1. Playful Intervention: Similar to my scenario above, when you notice your child or children struggling with big emotions you can intervene in a playful way. Once they feel safe, loved and calm they are in a better mindset to talk about solutions. When they are connected with you, power struggles decrease and they are more coherently able to reflect on how they experience big emotions.

2. Pretend Play: Use pretend play to explore feelings. You can initiate imaginary situations that would evoke strong emotions. For example, in a dinosaur pretend play scene recently my little girl was pretending not to let another dinosaur join in "go away we were here first" she growled. So I had my dinosaur figurine reply "Oh no, look at triceratops' face! He looks lonely and left out. I think he could do with some help building his camp fire." She got the lonely dinosaur and built a pile of sticks, so I replied "triceratops feels like part of our team now. That made him happy".

3. Label Emotions: Shift the focus towards feelings during play time. When reading books or colouring-in together you can discuss how you think a a character feels or how your child would feel if they were in their shoes. You can identify and label emotions exhibited by the characters, or in their facial expressions. This can also apply to imaginary play scenes. In the example above you could extend the play by further discussing why Triceratops felt lonely, how the child would feel if they were the one being left out, and what they could do if they were in that situation or felt that way.

4. Role Play: Role play provides a fabulous opportunity to explore appropriate ways to express emotions. For instance, if your child wants to play shop keeper you can assume different characters and emotions - for example, getting upset that you purchased the wrong thing and returning it, being happy that something was on special, getting frustrated when you can't find the right grocery - and model to your child how you calm down and find assistance. Hand puppets are a great tool to role play how to manage emotions. Children are captivated by puppets and you can see how we use them to teach social skills here.

5. Emotional Intelligence Listening Game: This twist on the classic game of Simon Says explores reading and imitating emotional visual cues and body language.

6. Make Emotions: You can introduce emotions into play just by making a silly face and asking "how do I feel?" or by playing peekaboo and making different faces. Or play with play dough and make an emotional face in the dough, or paint together and create an emotion on a face. It is easy to explore emotions playfully in every day moments. If we have French toast or pies, I will even use the sauce bottle to draw a facial expression onto their food.

7. Read Books: Books provide a great way to connect with your children and a perfect opportunity to introduce or discuss new concepts. Here are 15 fantastic books for developing emotional awareness.

8. Listen: While connecting through play and really listening to your child's play themes you might be able to identify reoccurring scenarios or themes initiated during play. This might be something that they are interested to learn more about or better understand, it might be something they have observed or experienced, or it might simply be play that is suitable for use as a teachable moment.

9. Explore the 5 Core Emotions: Watch the movie Inside Out with your children and discuss the characters representing the 5 core emotions. These emotions are linked to colours, so you can also "colour emotions" by using the correlating colours and asking your child to draw what they feel. Drawing is a great tool for children to use to express themselves, their thoughts and feelings.

By exploring emotional awareness in a positive manner while your child is feeling connected and loved, you reinforce that emotions are normal and you can enhances the bond between parent and child. Exploring emotions with children from a young age is one way you can help them become more emotionally intelligent.
For more from Play-Based Learning, check out this Emotional Intelligence with the 5 Core Emotions Activity.
About Renee: Renee is passionate about providing Positive Parenting and Purposeful Play activities for children. Her goal is to combine play based learning with positive parenting. Visit Renee and you will find fun and practical activities that demonstrate how play-based learning can encourage optimal developmental in children. You can find her encouraging parents and educators to connect with children through play via her blog, Facebook or Pinterest.

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It had been a long, boring day and by 3.30 both of my children were having arguments and getting emotional about the smallest upsets. We were venturing into melt-down territory. I had several deadlines to wrap up before close of business and I was frantically trying to pack for a camping trip.

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Hands-on social skills activities for kids of all ages.
Yesterday my heart was full of pride! My eight year old had his first swimming carnival. He does well in small groups but usually shies away from larger social situations. We have worked on social skills and social confidence a lot since he started school and yesterday he blew my mind.

In a totally new social setting, with a crowd of parents, school kids and teachers watching, with excited kids chanting and honking on trumpets, he approached the teacher by himself to say his name, age and team. He waited until it was his turn, looking super confident and composed.

He jumped in the pool for a 50-metre race and swam so hard. At the end, he was exhausted but thanked the teacher who helped him out. He didn't win, but he didn't care. I was so proud that he had the guts to have a go and try his hardest in this loud, crazy, overwhelming, new social setting. When I spoke to him he gave me a hug and said how scared he was, and yet he composed himself, used his manners, tried his hardest, followed social cues, stayed in charge and did it all on his own. That's a huge win in my book.

Self-confidence in social situations is something many parents wish for their children. I can not tell you how much seeing my child take on the world as a confident and socially capable child filled my heart with pride.

Whether your child is an extrovert or an introvert, learning to be confident across a range of social situations is something that develops with time and experience. It is however possible to support your child's social skills learning. By explicitly teaching social skills and engaging in social skills activities with your kids, you can provide them with important life skills that increase their social competence and confidence in new social settings.
What actually are social skills?
Social skills are skills and behaviours we use each day in our interactions with other people. They include communication skills (both verbal and non-verbal), an understanding of behavioural expectations across a range of social settings, and knowledge of societal rules (both explicit and implied) of interpersonal communication.

When thinking about these skills in the context of our children's learning it can be helpful to break them down to include the ability to - speak and listen effectively, to engage others in conversation, to share, to be kind, helpful, empathetic, inclusive and complimentary, to be assertive without being bossy, to be positive or optimistic, to know how to join and be part of a group, to have good manners, to remember and follow the rules within a range of social situations.

Knowing your child has a solid foundation of social skills to build upon can be both reassuring and rewarding. There are many ways we can support effective social development with children of all ages and the following social skills activities are equally relevant to learning at both home and school.

3. Role Play: Similarly, role play can be an effective learning tool for breaking down or rehearsing a diverse range of social situations or social standards. For example, with older children initiate role play by saying "Let's pretend (or practice) what you would say to the lady serving at the canteen. Pretend I am the lady... How can I help you today?" The playful nature of role play makes it a powerful learning tool for teaching social skills.

6. Develop an Emotions Vocabulary: Use emotions games to help your child develop a specific vocabulary about a wide range of emotions and how they feel. Playing Games with these Emotions Matching Cards, having fun with our Big Emotions Jenga, and playing the Talking Emotions Card Game (great for older children) all provide fabulous opportunities for vocabulary development.

8. Emphasise the importance of genuine friendships: In social settings such as school, social interactions and friendships can become complicated and aren't always positive. The ability to form genuine friendships, to identify the qualities that make a good friend and to be a good friend are important skills to foster through regular discussion and reflection.

10. Play Active Games Too: Playing active games such as Red Light Green Light, Scarecrow Tag, What's the Time, Mr Wolf? and Please Mr Crocodile help children to learn self control.

11. Group 'Work': Providing children with regular opportunities to work and play together is an important piece of the social skills puzzle as it allows them to actively put the skills they are learning into practice. At school, this would include small group work experiences across a range of learning areas and in a variety of teams. At home, parents can create opportunities for play dates and involvement in extra curricular activities.

12. Use Books as a Tool: Books are one of my favourite tools for exploring social and emotional themes with kids. They provide information for children in a format that is easily understandable to them, as well as characters and life situations/circumstances that children can relate to. Books are also the most wonderful prompts for further discussion about a particular skill, behaviour or topic. Here are some themed booklists related to social skills that you might find helpful;

13. Encouraging Self Reflection: Especially important for older children, talking with your child about how they are doing socially is a topic to re-visit regularly. Teachers too have an important role to play in helping children reflect upon their friendships and social interactions, as so much of a child's social experience happens at school. Touching base helps you, the adult, to see if and when difficulties are present so that you can support a child's further development.

BONUS: Social Skills Activities for Children Starting School

Like my son at his first swimming carnival, starting school is a big social adjustment for young children. Below are a few additional social skill activity suggestions for children preparing to start school;
1. Work on listening skills: Great listening helps children do better in social interactions, both in the playground and in the classroom. Here is a fun emotional awareness listening game.

2. Provide opportunity for socialisation with children of similar age: You might consider enrolling your child in a part-time childcare program or preschool for the year before formal schooling begins. Alternatively, try a playgroup or a local community group that hosts group activities for children. Reach out to see if you can connect with the parents of children who will be attending the same school as your child to organise playdates. When it comes time to start school, having an already established social network will be beneficial in times of uncertainty.

3. Encourage Independence: Right from day one, school requires children to demonstrate a greater level of independence than previously expected of them. Class groups are larger, the number of adults is smaller, they have more space and less supervision. By helping your child learn to be more independent, you are supporting them to become more socially confident and more capable of adjusting to this strange, new setting. Work on independence with;

Toileting: Encourage toileting alone, and in different bathroom settings. Don't forget hand washing!

Eating: Teach your child to open packets, containers and drink bottle by themselves. Eat recess (morning tea) and lunch at times similar to your school's schedule to help establish a school-like routine prior to starting school.

Dressing: This is not only great for school but will be a huge help in your day too. Being able to take shoes off and on, and fasten them, being able to put on and take off a jumper or jacket, and being able to change clothes if they have a toileting mishap are all useful skills to have prior to staring school.

Self-care: Knowing when and how to use a tissue for their nose. Handwashing routine and frequency is important too.

Looking after belongings: Being independent with their belongings will mean less time searching for hats, drink bottles, lunch boxes, etc and (hopefully) less misplaced items! Start getting your child into the habit of putting things into their bag when they've finished with them.

Do you have any additional ideas for helping children develop social confidence?

Renee is an Australian mother of two sweet, charismatic little learners and the founder of Play-based-parenting.com. It is Renee's ambition to encourage self-development, emotional awareness, anti-bullying, and self-acceptance in children. Following this dream, she has recently completed her Bachelor of Social Science Psychology with Honours and has academic achievements in counselling, positive parenting, and personality development. She is also eagerly awaiting her first picture book due for release in 2018.

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Unlocking The Keys to Social Success! 13 Important Social Skills Activities

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Hands-on social skills activities for kids of all ages. Yesterday my heart was full of pride! My eight year old had his first swimming carnival. He does well in small groups but usually shies away from larger social situations. We have worked on social skills and social confidence a lot since he started school and yesterday he blew my mind.

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Looking for a fun way to explore big emotions with kids? I think we have just the game for you! This twist make the regular game of Jenga a great tool for talking with children about a whole range of emotions, how they make you feel and triggers for emotions.

DIY Exploring Emotions Jenga Game
You will need:

A Jenga or Tumbling Towers type game

Blackboard paint and liquid chalk pens in three different colours OR skip the paint and just use regular Sharpie/ permanent markers in three different colours

To make your game:
1. If using chalkboard paint, paint one side of each Jenga piece.

2. Once dry, label each piece with an emotion. Repeat each emotion with each of the three different coloured pens. Some suggestions for your emotions;
To play:
Play the game as you regularly would, taking turns to remove one plank at a time.

For each piece removed, the player must do one of three things depending upon which colour they removed from the stack. So, in our game,

A pink piece = Name the emotion. Make a face that shows this emotion.

A blue piece = Describe how your body feels when you feel this emotion.

A white piece = Tell us about one time that you felt this emotion.

Do you have a favourite game for exploring emotions?
More resources for exploring emotions:

Christie Burnett is an early childhood teacher, presenter, writer and the editor of Childhood 101. More importantly, she is a Mum who believes wholeheartedly in the value of children learning through play, the importance of quality early education, and the togetherness of family.

Read more of Christie's adventures at https://childhood101.com.

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Have you seen Pixar's new movie yet? This Pixar Inside Out toilet paper roll craft will help you celebrate the new flick. My kids really enjoyed creating these emotional characters. Each of my kids chose one of the emotions to make - joy, sadness, fear, anger and disgust. These can be used for fun, play or discuss emotions.

I have to admit I haven't seen the movie yet, but I have heard great things. Our plan was to do the craft this morning and then head off to watch the movie with my kids. Oh, the best laid plans. My daughter started throwing up, and we no longer were able to see the movie. I am trying to write this post before I starting throwing up too. I feel it coming on. Yikes.

I have read about the movie, and I'm excited to be able to watch it and then talk about it with my kids. It is really important to teach kids empathy by recognizing and labeling emotions. I talk about the importance of showing and teaching empathy in this post. Here's another post on recognizing and labeling emotions. This movie looks like a lot of fun but also a start to some great conversations.

Materials to Make Pixar Inside Out Toilet Paper Roll Craft
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* Note: I did the best to link to similar items on Amazon, but it is going to be less expensive if you buy some of the things individually, like the foam and embroidery threads at your local craft store.

* Another Note: We used mostly glue dots. I love glue dots. Things stick immediately and kids of all ages find them easy to use.

* One more Note: I prepped all of the mouths and drew on the noses. Older kids can do this step too.

Directions to Make Pixar Inside Out Toilet Paper Roll Craft

Disgust

For disgust, we painted a toilet paper roll green. We then added wiggle eyes with green eye shadow. Pipe cleaners were cut to the length of eye brows, shaped and glued to the top of the eyes. Draw on a nose. Draw the mouth onto a piece of paper and glue that on next. Cut embroidery thread and use white glue to glue onto the top. We used fabric scraps, but you could also use paper for the clothes. A burgundy ribbon was cut, tied around and glued into place for the scarf.

Anger

Anger was made by cutting a toilet paper roll in half and painting it red. We attached medium wiggle eyes with glue dots. We stuffed cellophane up inside the tube and let the ends come out the top. I drew a mouth, and it was glued in place. The shirt and tie were cut out of white and red foam that were attached to the toilet paper roll tube with glue dots.

Sadness

Paint a toilet paper tube blue. Sadness has simple clothes. We cut off a sock and stuck it around the tube. The hair was cut to length and glued on with white glue. The glasses were made by twisting a black pipe cleaner. Little blue eyes were glued in place. A mouth and nose were drawn on with a Sharpie. I don't think I nailed the frown. She looks more angry than sad.

Fear

I found a skinny tube to make Fear. It could also be made by cutting a strip out of the toilet paper roll tube and hot gluing it back together more skinny. Pipe cleaners were cut and bent of shape for the nose, eye brows and hair. Big wiggle were added toward the top of the tube. I had a fabric piece that I found at Michael's that worked perfect for the shirt. I used a burgundy ribbon to make the tie and glue it in place. A Sharpie was used to create the mouth.

Joy

A toilet paper roll was painted peach for joy. I cut out glittery sticker foam in the shape for her hair and the kids stuck it in place. Her eyes were glued in place with glue dots. Her nose was drawn on with Sharpie. The mouth was drawn on paper and then glued in place. Fabric was cut and glued onto the bottom half of the toilet paper roll tube.

I hope you have a lot of fun making these toilet paper rolls with your kids and using them to talk through feelings. Check out my craft tab for more fun craft ideas.

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Get to Know your "Inside Out" Emotions: Joy

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Get to Know your "Inside Out" Emotions: Fear

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Get to Know your "Inside Out" Emotions: Anger

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Get to Know your "Inside Out" Emotions: Disgust

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Get to Know your "Inside Out" Emotions: Sadness

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HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY YOU FEEL THE WAY YOU DO?

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HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY YOU FEEL THE WAY YOU DO?

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Inside Out Movie Clip - Get To Know Your Emotions[HD1080i]

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