Today we present an activity for working on emotions with children! Working on emotions and moods is essential for everyone and should be nurtured from childhood. What are they feeling? is a perfect worksheet for this.
What does it involve?
Children have to identify what kind of feeling the person in the photo has and work out which words best match the photos.
Here’s an example of how to work with this exercise:
What does this activity work on?
- Social cognition. The images set the scene to help the child better understand why the character might feel that way.
- Vocabulary. In addition to working on emotions with children, the activity trains vocabulary related to this topic. Besides being able to identify moods, it’s essential to be able to name them in order to express them and make ourselves understood by others.
Play by levels
What are they feeling? is a worksheet and, like all NeuronUP worksheets, it is organized into five difficulty levels:
- Basic,
- easy,
- medium,
- hard,
- advanced.
Ways to work with this social cognition worksheet for children
- Correction mode: the platform corrects the child after each action.
- Free mode: the platform doesn’t check the child’s answers until the end of the exercise.
Paper version
This activity for working on emotions with children is also available on paper for you to use with your patients.
Languages available for this activity for working on emotions with children
You can use this activity in Spanish, English, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Adult version
What are they feeling? has an adult version called Emotion recognition. In the following example, the user has to decide which emotion this young man is showing.
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