Emotion charades
Overview
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE: communicating - making new friends
Relationship Skills
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE: communicating - making new friends
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION: Emotion charades can help children learn to recognize emotions using facial and body cues.
By depicting and acting out emotional expressions and reactions in social skills activities, children learn emotion management, which plays an important role in creating positive relationships and communicating feelings.
It involves writing different emotions on strips of paper.
A child picks one out of a hat or bucket.
Then, they must try to act out that emotion.
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ACTIVITY MATERIALS
depend on the children involved | Stripes of paper |
1 | Pen |