10 Emotion Games For Kids (Toddlers too!)

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Memorizing positive words forces the brain to activate the neural networks associated with those words. When a region of the brain is activated, it becomes stronger. Positive emotion flashcards can make positive concepts, memories, and ideas more accessible and activated in your child’s brain. The goal is to make positive information easier to recognize and understand in everyday life. Kindergarten through 12th grade.

The more different parts of the brain a child has to use to learn emotional information, the more information is more likely to “stick”.

This emotional coloring book challenges the brain to do just that see emotional facial expression, recognize the word emotion and to pull Emotions activate several regions of the brain at the same time. When a region of the brain is activated, it becomes stronger. So, coloring emotional pictures is likely to develop your child’s brain in a way that increases their emotional intelligence. 1 to 10 years

Recognizing and acknowledging emotions can help children improve their emotional awareness. Emotional awareness – or the ability to recognize emotions – is essential for building successful relationships in school and later in life.

Children and toddlers can use these cards to explore different emotions. Ask your children or distribute the cards around the house (in your child’s size). Children can learn effortlessly by seeing these emotions every day. 1 to 10 years

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The Stop Relax and Think collection helps children learn self-control by helping them slow down and think. For example, to use the ball, simply throw it and read where the player’s right thumb lands to help them think before acting. You can use it with children at home or during lessons at school.​

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Totika is like Jenga, but each time a tile is removed from the tower, the player must answer a question. The questions help children and families reflect on experiences that promote their self-esteem and emotional intelligence.

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With emotion cards, children discover a whole range of emotions. They include 15 games. For example, children can complete sentences by selecting different feelings and make up stories using the feeling cards as characters. Children can also use the cards to share what they think about others or to tell you how they feel. By learning to understand and communicate their emotions, children learn to manage these emotions more easily.

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Everyone should know how to name and express their feelings. Each “Feeling” jar contains 365 small pieces of paper printed with “feeling words”: happy, unsure, grateful, angry, upset, brave, hopeful, etc. Children can draw a piece of paper and express this feeling alone, or they can play with their friends or family. Words can also be used to initiate discussion, encourage journaling, or break the ice in a group. From 8 years old.

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This board game helps children learn the difficult topic of consequences in a fun way. The cards contain daily tasks that result in forward or backward movement. Parents can even write their own cards to help their children understand important family-specific consequences.
​For 2 to 4 players.

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This is a quick therapeutic card game for children ages 5-12. It aims to support parents, teachers and mental health professionals by involving children. The characters help children identify, process and cope with a variety of issues, including family changes, trauma, grief, anger, depression, anxiety and fear. It contains 35 cheerfully animated playing cards.

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​This affordable pack of 6 board games for grades 1-5 helps kids master socially challenging situations. They learn morals, good manners, empathy, friendship, showing their emotions and managing their emotions.

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Stone Soup is an award-winning memory game with a cooperative approach. Players must work together to “cook” the soup by assembling the ingredients. If they succeed, everyone wins. This approach helps children strengthen their memory and social development skills without having to read. It’s for 2 to 4 players ages 5 and up.

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This exciting game helps children develop the resilience they need to cope with all types of stress and helps them cope with developmental and situational issues. It is designed for use in consulting or teaching environments and is suitable for children aged 6-12 with 2-4 players.

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This deck is designed to look like a standard 52 card deck. However, instead of numbered cards, there are 13 different children. And instead of four combinations, there are four areas of social skills (having fun, inviting a friend, talking, and problem solving). As children play the game, they can use the character cards to create stories that will help them develop their social awareness. Recommended for children ages 6-12 | 2-4 players