I’ve been knocking things off my to-do list like crazy this week! We ended up having a really nice staycation for spring break instead of a vacation…wasn’t what we planned, but it worked out great! I have gotten so many things accomplished and have managed to fit it some fun too 🙂 One of the projects I have had was something to target emotions…I have a few little guys who are working on this and I am sure some of you do too!
I have target 12 basic emotions in this packet: bored, confused, embarrassed, excited, frustrated, happy, mad, sad, scared, shy, surprised, and worried. The beauty of it is that since they are basic, it is good for your younger ones, but I didn’t make it cutesy, so you can use with older students who might be lower functioning.
- There are 12 cards with icons and descriptions for each emotion. These are pretty flexible for your use. I thought of making a copy for each student to have a mini book reference for themselves…just cut apart and staple together as a book. You can use them for discussion and practice of facial expressions and body language, or use as conversation starters about exploring situations that make them feel a certain way. I am sure you could think of even more ways to use them!
- Emotions Bingo! Everyone loves bingo and it is such a great way to reinforce learning targets. I included three different bingo boards. You can see above the most basic version, with the picture and emotion named. But I also included boards that just have the pictures…this makes it a little more challenging and students must discriminate the emotions independently. I also added in blank boards, which you can customize for your kids. They could even write the words or draw pictures themselves!
- For the cards, I created three different version of varying difficulty: Picture plus word, picture only, and word only. These can be used as calling cards for the bingo game, but you can also use them for matching, memory, and Go Fish games by printing two copies. You could match the word to the emotion picture or just match two of a kind! Very flexible!
- The next activity is to target identifying other’s emotions, based on situational examples. This is great to target perspective taking and the great Theory of Mind, which is so difficult for many of our students with social language difficulties. There are 48 cards, 4 for each emotion targeted.
- Last thing I included was a student worksheet. This gives the students opportunities to define, describe, and draw each emotion. You could make 12 copies and have each student make a workbook for each emotion, or you could also have them complete this as a carryover activity.I hope you guys like it! I am pretty excited to use it after break and I feel like it is something that I can keep in my therapy toolbox for years to come.
You can find it in my TPT Store!
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Timely as always! I have a student newly diagnosed with ASD and one of his goals is identifying emotions. Needless to say I’m trying to dredge up materials. Love this…
This would be GREAT for my low functioning kids at the high school level!
I would love these to work with my son, ASD & hearing loss so conveying emotion is something we REALLY work on. 🙂
I would love to use this with some of my students with AI
This is great! I really like the variety of emotions discussed and the visuals paired with the description. As always, great graphics! maria.wellman@gmail.com
Great variety of emotions and I love the description cards. I would love this with my kids with ASD and some of my FAE kids too!
I have many, many students that could use this! I like the way you have made the activities for different levels!
I would love this for my ASD students and lunch groups-it looks awesome!
I was just looking for this to work on with a new ASD student that has this goal, Heading over to TPT to put it on my wish list!
Another great one Jenn! So cute. So fun. So functional! love it! Along with all your other ideas!! Thanks for sharing your creativity with us! Marva
ALWAYS love things in Bingo form, the kiddos always play! 🙂
My kids always enjoy your activities! Thank you so much for making it available for other SLP’s to enjoy! -Meg T
Looks to be a very practical fun idea to address Emotions. You certainly are very creative.
Diane
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This is a great one, so creative! I am a CMSD student doing clinical work and this would be great to add to my arsenal 🙂
This would be perfect for my social skill group. We are working on non-verbal communication and identifying emotions. Thanks for this great material!
Really well done Jenn! Looks great!!
Spring Break just started today at 3:40 p.m. I want to use this with the kindergarten friendship/social skills group I am starting after break.
A fabulous creation to help ASD kids identify the meaning of emotions–they relate better to icons sometimes, and these are perfect.
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This packet looks great! I have quite a few preschoolers working on emotions and I love that this is just the right level for them! Thanks 🙂
Looks cute! Thanks for the giveaway!
This is a great packet! I know exactly which of my kids would benefit from this! Thanks!
Unique activity. Good for my ASD students and as a precursor to talking about character’s emotions in stories.
This looks like a great packet! Thanks so much for creating it. It looks like it will be very valuable resource to use with my kiddos. Erin=)
Would LOVE to win this! Always need more activities to target emotions! Great job!
Wonderful. I have so many students that struggle with this skill.
Congrats Carly! Random.org picked you to win 🙂
Would love to have this for my elementary and middle school ASD and LD students!
Thanks everyone for participating! A winner has been chosen by random draw…congrats Carly!