Learning to recognize and understand emotions in both ourselves and others is an important life skill. We’re developing our emotional intelligence in the five-year-old classrooms using these faces. Each child’s picture is attached to a clothespin which the child can move from face to face to indicate his or her current mood. The five moods we’re working on are: happy, sad, angry, scared, and restless. It’s a helpful tool for developing self-awareness and has been the starting point for some great discussions about managing feelings and relationships with others.