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Today's feeling face

Show with your face how you feel. You may choose more than one feeling or none.

4-7 years4 minscreen-free during play
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Look - try - finish
1

For the parent first

Offer choices without making the child pick only one.

2

Say to the child

“Show with your face how you feel. You may choose more than one feeling or none.”
3

How the game continues

  1. Try a face for curiosity, boredom, worry or joy.
  2. Say what might help right now, if you want.
  3. It could be a hug, water or knowing what will happen next.

You are done when

At the end choose a hug, a smile or a quiet pause.

If you get stuck

Do not force it. Shrink the task to one round or stop the activity.

More rounds

  • Close your eyes only when it is safe.
  • The adult shows their own example first.
  • The child chooses the pace and the ending.

Safety

The child stays with the adult, does not block other people and only observes the surroundings.

Today's feeling face

Move through three calm rounds of “Today's feeling face”. Any round may be the last.

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