Emotion Maze: Linked Minds

Topic
- Communication & media
- Identity & emotions
Learning skills
- Self-awareness
- Empathy & social awareness
- Communication & expression
Activity type
- Board game
Materials
- Basic
- Printable downloads
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
- 15 - 17 years
>15 minutes
+5 players
Intermediate
Medium
Small (office, pavement)

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Everything you need to play this game

Emotions Poster Download emotion-maze.jpg (9.7mb)
Chalk or pens
Chalkboard or paper

A step-by-step guide to play the game

Gather the players and divide them into pairs.

Explain that today you will see how their minds are linked.

Each player takes a piece of paper and a pencil and writes their name. Or let them write on the blackboard with chalk.

Show the poster and select the images you will play with (minimum 4, maximum 16).

Point to the first image and ask all the players to observe it for 10 seconds.

Then, all players must secretly draw the feeling that this image evokes for them. Ensure that pairs do not see each other’s answers.

Inform them that each emoticon can be used only once per player.

Move on to the next image and repeat the process for all the chosen images.

At the end, each pair compares their images with emoticons and counts how many matches they have, if any.

The pair with the most matches wins.

Extra game information

The frame of this poster consists of 20 images that trigger the players' imagination. There is no specific explanation for each image. In the middle of the game board, you can find 16 emoticons (top to bottom, left to right): funny, excited, scared, irritated, nauseous, happy, thinking, loved, surprised, doubtful, sleepy, relaxed, sad, angry, desperate, and ashamed. The players can interpret the emoticons as they wish.

The following games can also be played with this educational poster:

Emotion Maze: Emotion Explorer https://play.streetsmart.be/en/game/view/2290

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

You can play the same game but start with emoticons instead of images. The facilitator points to an emoticon, and all the players have to pick an image that, according to them, is most suitable for that emoticon. With this advanced version, you can keep all 20 images to make it even harder. At the end, the pairs compare their matches, and the pair with the most matches wins.

Specific learning objectives

Link emotions to situations
Understand that the same stimulus can create different feelings to different people

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