Promoting social-emotional development is an important part of a quality after school program.  Emotional Charades is a fun social learning game that allows children to explore emotions. Help kids identify when others are feeling certain emotions. 

​Naming emotions will give children the ability to communicate more effectively and talk about their feelings. This games gives kids the chance to hear and use feeling words in a non-threatening way.  

How to use Emotional Charades

• Print and cut out the emotional charades cards.  Gather a group of 4-18 children and break them into groups of 2-4
• Discuss the different faces people make when they are feeling different emotions.
• Explain that you are going to play a new charades game, where you act out the emotion or feeling on the cards.  
• Have one group at a time take a card and act it.  If you wish you can add a timer and a scoreboard, or just let the kids go and have fun with it.
• The objective of this activity is to get kids to think about the emotions in connect with the physical look of that emotion or feeling. 

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