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Emotions Go Fish
This is a fun game that helps work on emotion recognition.
Objective:
Emotion recognition
Length:
15 minutes
Materials:
Instructions:
- Shuffle the cards and deal 5 cards to each player. Place the rest of the cards face down in a pile. If the children have a hard time holding cards, use a folder for each to put their cards behind so they can lay face up on the table without being seen by the other players.
- Each player checks their cards to see if they have a match. If they do, they set those cards aside.
- Each player then takes a turn saying another player's name and asking if they have the same card as they have. "Samuel, do you have sad?" If the other player does, he or she gives the card to the player that asked. The player then sets aside the match and takes another turn.
- If the other player did not have the card, then he replies, "Go fish." The player who asked for the card then draws a card from the pile. If the card makes a match, the player adds it to his or her matches.
- In normal Go Fish you would get to go again. I would suggest not using this rule unless all your children are able to understand that they will still get a turn even if another player is going again.
- Play continues until everyone is out of cards. Whoever has the most matches wins.
Variations:
- Instead of setting aside 2 card matches, you can have the players wait until they have all 4 of one emotion before it counts. Matching 4 tends to be a hard task for the children because they end up with many cards in their hands and they become upset when they had 3 of a kind and someone calls for those 3 cards.
- Have the children help you make emotion go fish cards. Have them practice showing different emotions and take their pictures. Glue the pictures onto cards. You can copy 4 of the same child for a particular emotion, or have 4 different children for the same emotion.
- White out or cut off the words for the emotions so that the children have to identify the emotion with only the picture.
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