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Roll and Mime the Emotions
How do we express emotions? Find out with this pantomime game!
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Everything you need to play this game
- Glue
- Scissors
- Picture of emotions Download emotions.jpg (522.5kb)
- Template of the dice Download dice.jpg (8.8kb)
Make it yourself
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Step 1
Make the dice
Print the template, cut around the outer lines, fold the paper on each line and glue the areas that are not square together.
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Step 2
Prepare the emotions
Print the emotions and cut them out.
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Step 3
Make the dice with emotions
Stick one emotion on each side of the dice.
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Good job!
A step-by-step guide to play the game
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Gather the players in a circle.
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Explain that you are going to play a game on emotions.
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One player starts and rolls the die of emotions.
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This player must imitate the rolled emotion.
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The other players must decide whether the player's performance matches the emotion with a thumbs up or a thumbs down.
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Then the player has to answer the following question: 'Can you remember a time when you felt this way or when a friend/family/etc. felt this way?’
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The game ends when one player has thrown all six emotions and answered the question for all of them. He is then the winner of the game.
Extra game information
- Make sure you are in a safe space, where all children feel appreciated and want to express themselves. The judging of thumbs up or down should be guided at all times by a youth worker.
- If a player throws the same emotion, the player must answer the question again and tell about another moment/situation when he/she felt this way.
This game is part of the toolkit ‘Facing trauma - A toolkit on trauma-informed support for children and youth’. This toolkit is a cooperation between StreetSmart, Minor-Ndako, Save the Children Romania & SolidarityNow, cofinanced by the European Union. It provides simple tools to explore important topics like trauma, stress, self-care and emotions in a way that’s easy to use with different target groups.
Variations
- Together with the children, make a die with different emotions.
- You can end the game in different ways, e.g. whoever grabs one emotion twice wins, whoever grabs all emotions twice wins, each player rolls the die two, four, X times and then the game ends.
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