Making faces

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AIM

Children make faces with different emotions in the mirror or play a guessing game to explore what different emotions feel and look like.

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BENEFIT

Strong relationships support emotional development. Children learn about emotions through relationships with parents, caregivers, and peers. Recognising cues such as facial expressions is important in understanding their emotions and those of others.

WHAT YOU NEED:
  • A safely secured mirror or small hand-held mirrors
  • Emotions card (download, cut out and paste descriptions of different emotions on the back of each card. For very young children only use happy, sad and angry).
WHAT TO DO:
  • Provide the Emotions cards.
  • Safely and securely set up the mirror or hand mirrors and show the children how you pick a card and try to make the emotion face depicted in the mirror.
  • The adult can model and say- “this is an angry face” and make that face in the mirror.
  • This activity can also be game where children guess what type of face is being made.
  • The child picks up the card and perhaps only shows the adult, then makes a face others must guess.
  • Children can take turns doing this.
GEORGE'S FIRST ACTION RHYME:

Shoulder and head, shoulders and head,
It’s still raining,
Should I go back to bed?
Cheeks and chin, cheeks and chin,
Can’t go out, so we’ll have to stay in.

Use this part of the video as a SPARK for the activity

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FUN FACT

Role-playing emotions in playful ways supports children’s social skills and relationships.

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