About

Description: My Feelings Face is an engaging game designed for children aged 4-8 to help them explore and express their emotions. This interactive game allows children to use drawing tools and various facial features, such as eyes and mouths to create faces that represent different feelings.  My Feelings Face has many therapeutic applications, such as feelings check-ins before sessions, emotional literacy development, self-awareness, empathy, and teaching social cues.

Ages: 4-8

Themes: Expressive Art, Feelings Identification, Feelings Exploration, Empathy and Understanding, Social Skills

Using My Feelings Face in Session

Discuss feelings

Prior to activities or games involving feelings, it can be helpful to explore the child's feelings vocabulary.  My Feelings Face has a library of stickers containing 20 different feelings words that you can explore and review with your clients. You can also ask them if there are any additional feeling words that they know that aren't included on the list. 

Discuss the activity

Depending on how you are using My Feelings Face, it is helpful to explain the activity to the client and discuss the objective of the feelings face creation.  Here are some ideas and prompts for use!

Feelings check-in: "Create a face that shows how you're feeling today."

Processing a past event: "Create a face that shows how you were feeling when that happened."

Empathy: Identify a situation involving another person. This could be a real scenario about a sibling or a friend, or it can be a character from a book or a movie. "Create a face that shows how that other person might have been feeling."

Social skills: Use feelings faces to teach your client about different social cues. Discuss how facial expressions can show how someone is feeling and how they can respond appropriately.  "Can you create a face that shows how someone might look if they're feeling ______? What are some things you notice about a person's face when they feel _____?" 

Guess the Feeling: Another way to use My Feelings Face is to play Guess the Feeling.  Either you or the client chooses a feeling word without telling the other person.  Then as you're creating a matching feelings face, the other person is trying to guess the word.  See who's the quickest at guessing! 

Using the features

To get started with My Feelings Face, your client can begin by choosing a skin and shirt color for their character by scrolling through the palette.

 

They can then use the drawing tools to draw hair, a nose, or any other element that they'd like to add to the character.

Time to add the facial features! Allow the client to browse through the vast library of eyes and mouth shapes that they believe best conveys the feeling they are trying to represent. With each shape, they can resize, move, and drop it anywhere they'd like.  They can also delete and choose one that they feel is more fitting.

Afterwards, you can choose to revisit the feelings stickers and your client can choose a word that they feel best matches the face that they've created. 

With My Feelings Face, you also have the ability to quickly clear the screen and start by selecting the Trash button, or you can select the Download button, and a PDF of the created feelings face will be ready for download.

 

Related Resources

In the Hopscotch Play Print section, you will find a PDF version of My Feelings Face.  This can be used as a hands-on version of the game using the same interventions. 

 

 

With My Feelings Faces, children can creatively explore and articulate their emotions in a fun and interactive way. This game not only aids in emotional development but also enhances social skills and empathy. By incorporating My Feelings Faces into your sessions, you can provide a valuable tool for children to better understand and express their feelings, making emotional learning both enjoyable and impactful.