‘Emotions’ wooden puzzle sorter

About the game

How are you feeling today? Happy, pensive, surprised or perhaps a little sad? Try putting together a face that best conveys that feeling, and tell us about it.

‘Emotions’ is a wooden puzzle sorter featuring faces made up of four pieces. The child matches the pieces to the cards, recreates different facial expressions and learns the names of emotions using the hint poster. The windows on the box labelled ‘Today I feel…’ help to make talking about moods part of the game.

Nine different faces — nine opportunities to talk about feelings and learn to name them.

In the set

• a wooden box measuring 19.5 × 13 × 5 cm with windows labelled ‘Today I feel…’
• 36 pieces: 9 face puzzles, each consisting of 4 parts depicting different emotions
• 9 picture cards depicting emotions
• a poster with captions: happy, angry, dreamy, scared, pensive, shy, surprised, sad, cheerful

How to play

1. The child assembles a face from 4 parts.
2. They look for a card showing the same emotion.
3. They place it in the window: ‘Today I feel…’.

Where to start

Start with joy and sadness.

Game variations

• ‘Show me how’ — to mimic an emotion;
• ‘When do you feel like that?’;
• ‘How are you feeling today?’;
• a story about each character.

What children can practise

• recognising emotions
• the ‘part–whole’ concept
• speech

Who it’s for

Children aged 3 and over; at home, at kindergarten, or during lessons with a teacher.

Material

Wood-based board (pressed wood), bright print.