The game can be played in several different ways. First, play with the cards alone. Find out which emotions are represented on the 8 emotion cards and tell something about them.
Then talk about the situation cards. What do you see and how does it make you feel? Associate the situation cards with the basic emotion cards.
The 8 emotions are :
- Love (confident, kind, friendly, loving)
- Joy (happy, satisfied, relieved, proud)
- Anger (furious, resentful, displeased, irritated, annoyed)
- Anxiety (worried, anxious, wary, nervous)
- Sadness (grieving, melancholy, self-pitying, lonely)
- Astonishment/surprise (bewildered, astonished)
- Disgust (disdainful, dismayed)
- Shame (guilty, shy)
The second game is played with the game board. Place the open situation cards on the table. Rotate the pointer and watch which emotion it stops. Choose a card with a corresponding situation. Alternatively, leave the pointer running and choose a situation card at random. Link this situation to the emotion on which the pointer stopped. For example: the pointer stopped on the emotion "happy" and you chose the situation card with a grandfather sitting by the window. You can link the emotion by telling Grandpa that he's a bit sad, but when I visit him later with Mom and Dad, he'll be happy.
The wooden box is divided into 8 sections, so emotion cards and situations can also be sorted within the box.
In this game, there's a lot to say, about emotions, about the situations represented on the cards and about the players' own experience. What's more, one of the options in this game is to sort the cards: an important mathematical skill. Several motor skills are practiced, such as turning the cards over, rotating the pointer and sorting the cards in the box.
Contents:
- wooden game board with 8 basic emotions and pointer
- 48 plastic cards with situations (5 x 5 cm)
- 8 plastic cards with basic emotions (5 x 5 cm)
- manual
- wooden box (33.5 x 22.5 x 7 cm)
