This is an easy game you can play at home with your little one – all you need is yourselves! It will get your child thinking about how to express their feelings.
First, explain what you’re going to do. You’re going to team up to act out opposite feelings. For example, one of you acts happy, one of you acts sad. One of you can be excited, the other can be lazy.
Have a go at happy and sad first. Then you can start thinking of different feelings and emotions and asking your child to guess what the opposite is.
Make sure you label each thing you’re acting out. Learning the names of different feelings and talking about how they make your body feel can help children to express and manage their emotions.
Give your child time to think about how to act it, or guess what the feeling is. You can give them suggestions if they get stuck.
Take turns in coming up with the actions and feelings to guess.
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Good to know
Naming the emotions you act out will support your child to express their emotions verbally, and begin to recognise the feelings of others.
