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The Big Bright Feelings social emotional learning series is a set of picture books for young children written and illustrated by the British author Tom Percival. The latest release in the Big Bright Feelings series is Sammy Feels Shy (released July 2025).  My children were really excited to hear that our pre order of the new book had shipped. I was drawn to the series because of the beautiful illustrations. The books shows children how to deal with their emotions in a direct and straight forward way making them easily accessible. I love the line in Ruby's Worry "Then Ruby did the best thing you can ever do if you have a worry... she talked about it" The characters are relatable too, they aren't superheroes saving the world. The children depicted in the books find themselves in everyday situations that young readers can identify with.  Jealousy when a new friend joins the friendship group in Milos Monster. Disappointment when heavy snowfall means no one can attend her ...
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Scribble SPOT Melted Crayon Activity

All of our emotions are swirling inside of use. It's useful to be able to identify them. This is the message from the Emotion Detective in the Little SPOT of Feelings book from Diane Alber. One of the activities in the Little SPOT SEL Educators Guide is to make your own scribble spot crayon. I loved the idea of this, it a very clear visual representation of all those emtions being mixed up inside of us. 

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My children picked out the coloured crayon that represented each emotion and scribbled it onto their blank scribble SPOT which is also included in the appendix of the Educators Guide. 

About The Little SPOT Educators Guide

I would recommend getting the digital version of the Educators Guide because it made printing worksheets much easier. The PDF version also has the email you used to purchase it printed on each page. I wasn't thrilled with the look of this and it makes me hesitate before sharing our craft activities on social media. But I understand that copyright is an issue when selling digital products and this must be a way to circumvent it. 

When it came to peeling the wrappers off the crayons it was a bit tricky for their little hands. Even breaking them seemed difficult and that is something children usually have no problem with! We put the broken crayons into silicone cup cakes cups and baked them at 180c for 5 minutes. This was a lower temperature and time than what was recommended in the Educator guide. 

melted crayon art diy scribble spot craft homeschool
I added more light colours
to the crayons

After they came out of the oven we had to leave them to cool. I was a little dismayed that the black we used to represent grey anxiety and the blue that represented sadness seemed to dominate the new circular scribble spot crayon. The yellow (happiness) and pink (love) also seemed to have blended into the other colours.  I tried remelting them and adding more of the positive emotion colours while the children were playing. I also used a toothpick to try and swirl the colours together a little more. If you are making these I would recommend keeping those strong negative colours to a minimum. The end result wasnt as pretty as I was hoping for but the children certainly didnt mind and happily pointed out what the colours represented while using them to draw new pictures. 

✅Pros

A really good way to use broken crayons.

The activity brings up a discussion of which colours represent each emotion. 

Clear visual representation of the mix of feelings inside all of us.

❌Cons 

It is fiddly to peel and break crayons.

After melting there was an unbalanced representation of emotions as colours mixed together. 

Adult supervision handling the oven and hot wax.


We love the Little SPOT SEL series and I have written several posts about it recently because it is currently dominating our after school craft activity time. 

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