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The Invisible Mask Game
TARGET:
3-5 years
INTENSITY:
7–10 min / Regular
LEARNING GOAL
Developing Emotional Awareness When Interacting with Others
PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Identifying Others' Emotions
Target SKILLS
Socio-emotional Intelligence
Co-Intelligence Human-Human
MATERIALS
No materials required
DETAILED PROCEDURE
Gather the whole group together in a circle for this activity. A volunteer child acts out a role by miming an emotion using only facial expressions.
Step 1
Guide group observation: "Look closely at their eyes... what are they telling us?"
Step 2
Other children try to guess the emotion their classmate is showing.
Step 3
The miming child explains why they chose that emotion and how they expressed it.
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PROGRESS INDICATORS
The child identifies a complex emotion through facial clues.
Research Foundations
de Gelder (2006)
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