At this age, we continue explaining the consequences of negative words and actions as well as feelings. This activity will help to build positive thoughts patterns and avoid depression. Besides, kids have an opportunity to increase their self-management and self-awareness. It will focus them on positive aspects. Ask a kid to write specific aspects and encourage deeper thinking.
This activity helps kids to manage their emotions and schedule their days. As a result, they will be more responsible for their decisions. A schedule helps to analyze previous days, find out what was wrong and how to make it better tomorrow. Help children by asking them the following questions: What would you like to do tomorrow? What part of the day did you like more? Sometimes everyone needs to stay alone in a calm and safe place. Offer a kid to create a cute place where he or you both could spend some peace minutes.
This activity helps a kid to search for ways of handling emotions. Without realizing we bring our emotions everywhere — at school, the play yard, and home. Sometimes we can hardly understand them. You can do it with the help of checklists. Ask children how they feel. Let them express big emotions. Besides, you may also share your feelings.
That helps respect the feelings of other people. For example, listen to music with kids and ask them to tell what they feel.
In middle school, kids have new responsibilities. Besides, social relationships become deeper and more difficult. Offer kids to describe their feelings and learn themselves through writing. For example, to write in the journal once a week. Offer some debating questions and make structured arguments with the kid. When we play, we engage our bodies, minds, and senses, creating opportunities for increased physical activity, learning, and connection with others.
Play can even help relieve stress and support the development of important social-emotional skills, including communication and cooperation.
Help students develop their social and emotional skills with these games. Are you an educator? This can easily be used to identify emotions or even identify an appropriate coping strategy to deal with an emotion. Makes for a great supplement to the curriculum! Emotions Uno : Using a deck of Uno cards, children talk about the emotions related to the card colors with an adult providing subject prompts.
Children can talk about experiences and the emotions they felt during those times. Feelings Jenga or Exploring Emotions Jenga : This is a fun way to help children explore and talk about feelings and emotions by having children answer questions related to specific emotions. Makes a great tool to use in small groups! Feelings Mancala : This old-time game has been turned into a game for emotional awareness and development. Facial stickers are placed into the bottom of each hole on the board and then the game is played with each player sharing about a time they felt a particular feeling or emotion.
Children don the glasses or headbands from these games and then place the Thinkable or Unthinkable cards onto the glasses or headbands and have a child try to describe them.
How about trying some of the classic games or even classic toys that we all know and love but that do not require the use of a board game? Enjoy these fun ideas designed for children to learn about emotions and feelings as well as self-regulation and coping.
But have you thought about using them to park in spots of a feelings and coping parking lot? Makes an easy DIY activity using some classic toys! Hopscotch : This is a super easy gross motor activity that kids can use to identify and discuss emotions and feelings.
Makes a classic turn into a newbie! Kids and adults alike will pick one up and try to play with it. This activity uses this fun classic toy by helping children identify the different zones and what makes one be in that zone. So, they are learning about the feelings while also learning about curriculum concepts. Zones of Regulation Lego Towers : Kids enjoy building with Legos and they have been a core toy for years and years.
Flip over two cards and discover various facial expressions. Collect the most pairs to win! As they play, children will discover how to recognize feelings in themselves and in others. Ages 4 and up — This game encourages you and your child to explore emotions in a fun, active and very silly way.
Ages 4 and up — A great game to get children to express, discuss and recognize their feelings and the feelings of others. There are four cards in each category and each person starts with four cards. The goal is to collect four cards with the same emotion, by explaining the emotion you have on your card.
Ages 4 and up — This feeling-filled, multicultural deck has 28 pairs of high-quality cards demonstrating seven basic emotions four different pairs each for happy, sad, surprised, scared, thoughtful, tired, and angry. Since the cards have no words on them, you can use them to show a wide range of emotions. Game ideas are included. Ages 4 and up — This social-emotional development game is a popular tool used in child psychotherapy.
Ages 5 and up — This kids version of the popular communication game is a perfect way for children to get together and talk about their emotions, feelings, and values.
Designed for use in a variety of settings from the home to the classroom, the Ungame is a social game for developing communication skills that promote a non-competitive environment for self-expression. Ages 6 and up — This social-emotional game is really simple yet surprisingly effective in helping kids learn about their emotions and basic anger management strategies.
If your kids like playing Uno, they will love this mad Dragon Uno with anger control tips to learn as they play. Ages 6 and up — A game to help impulsive children think before they act.
Active children learn motor control, relaxation skills, how to express their feelings and how to problem-solve. Ages 7 and up — This game is a lovely way to start the process of helping children to identify and expand upon their feelings vocabulary.
Playing this game can also help kids identify the feelings they have in response to certain situations. Ages 7 and up — There are no right or wrong answers in these six unique social emotional development games.
Each social game has players discuss the solutions to socially challenging situations. Together the Group decides upon the best action encouraging all players to communicate, listen and participate in the game. These games will encourage your students to work together as they learn to improve their social skills.
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