Emotions Charades:



Theme: Health and Wellness Activity Introduction: Child’s Play In Action?is a great website to engage families at home with simple activities that promote movement and wellness. Emotions charades is the first activity you will explore.TC Activity 10: PK -2Activity Objective:To engage in creative play that promotes social/emotional well being.Resources Needed:Access to the internet, index cards, crayons, scissors, pencils, a glue stick, and a hat or box.Directions: HYPERLINK "" \h Emotions Charades:Playing “emotions charades” with your kid is like sneaking kale into their breakfast smoothie. You know they are getting a healthy dose of social-emotional learning (or in the case of the smoothie, antioxidants), but it is delivered in such a fun (yummy!) way that they’ll want to have it again and again!Brainstorm a list of emotions with your child.Create a stack of 12-15 cards (index cards are helpful) with images of faces that show these different types of emotions. Pictures can be found on Google images, printed, cut and pasted onto the cards or children can draw and create their own images for the cards. Cards can also display the word only. Some examples include: frustrated, angry, tired, excited , etc.Place the cards into a hat or box.Children select one card. Once a card is selected, it must be kept a secret.Next, children need to act out that emotion with as much drama as possible so others can guess their card. Children will have an opportunity to learn new words and fully inhabit a feeling which helps them develop social emotional skills.This website can keep you and your family busy all week with fun and engaging activities. Here are a few more highlights: HYPERLINK "" \h Animal Games that Will Inspire Your Kid’s Imagination Animal Games are an amazing entry-point into dramatic play for kids! This link brings you to activities that involve creative play around the animal theme. HYPERLINK "" \h What Are You Doing? This awesome theater game has many brain-boosting and social-emotional benefits. You can play this during transitional time when you are looking to avoid screens and capitalize on imagination. HYPERLINK "" \h Creative Movement Games that Inspire Kids to be Brave and Kind The thrilling ways that actors use creative movement can translate to your home or remote classroom to inspire indoor play. Movement is essential to learning and awakens and activates many of our mental capacities.NotesAll activities have instructions and sample videos plus ideas for enrichment.There are many, many more activities on the website Child’s Play In Action. ................
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