Feelings Wheel: Spin a Feeling for Check-Ins

Feelings wheel with 16 everyday feelings, from happy and proud to worried and frustrated. Spin one for a class check-in or to talk about feelings at home.

Check-ins
Feelings words
Charades

On this wheel

Happy
Sad
Excited
Calm
Angry
Worried
Proud
Silly
Tired
Grateful
Frustrated
Surprised

Why use a feelings wheel

Sixteen feelings are on the wheel, the pleasant ones and the hard ones. Spin one, then share a time you felt it, act it out, or talk about what helps when it comes.

Start the morning check-in
Spin a feeling and each child shares a time they felt it.
Learn new words for feelings
Kids find a better word than “fine” or “bad”, one spin at a time.
Act out a feeling
One player acts out the feeling and the others guess it.
Open a talk at dinner
Families spin and each person says what helps with that feeling.

This wheel wears the Wheel-Being theme: a quiet morning: sage, sand and stone, with a lotus at the center. Your own copy keeps it, or pick another wheel theme.

How to use the feelings wheel

Click the wheel to spin it.
Wait for it to slow down and stop on a random entry. The winner pops up on screen.
Click “Hide & Respin” to take the winner out and spin again, so nothing is picked twice.
Click “Create your own feeling picker” to save your own copy, change the entries, and share or embed it.

All 16 entries on the feelings wheel

Happy
Sad
Excited
Calm
Angry
Worried
Proud
Silly
Tired
Grateful
Frustrated
Surprised
Lonely
Curious
Nervous
Hopeful

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the printed feelings wheel chart?

No. The chart puts feelings in rings, from a few big ones in the middle to many exact ones outside. This is a spinner: it picks one feeling for you to talk about, act out or write about.

Can I add the feelings we are learning?

Yes. Click “Create your own feeling picker” and type the feelings words your class is working on.

Is the wheel really random?

Yes. Every entry has a slice of the same size, and where the wheel stops is picked with your browser’s cryptographically secure random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), so nobody can predict or rig the result.

Can I change the entries on this wheel?

Yes. Click “Create your own feeling picker” to save your own copy. You can then add, remove or rename entries, change the theme and spin settings, and share or embed your wheel.