Games That Help Develop the Emotional Intelligence of the Child

Do you need an idea how to spend time with your child? Maybe if you focus on games that help your child develop emotional intelligence. All 9 offered games can be played in a friendly, interesting and stimulating environment, both for the child and for the parents. Such games can also treat children from emotional disorders.

1. Emotional dictionary. In a free conversation with your child, make a list of all the feelings that come to mind. In order for the feelings to be expressed more fully, take a large album, where the child will sketch the pictures expressing feelings. From the painted images that felt, make a small book into which the child will look from time to time. The game greatly expands the vocabulary of emotions.
2. Guess the feelings . Neutral phrases such as "I'm going to the store" should be expressed in a different voice (you can also add body movement) to express different emotions (eg, anger, happiness, etc.). The child shows, and parents guess the feelings. And then vice versa.
3. What does this face say? In the game we take pictures, pictures or drawings from magazines. The faces of people on them show certain emotions. The child should say what the person whose face is depicted in the picture feels. What can a child say about this person?
4. A dramatization of dolls. All the performances of dolls are very important, because the child is only able to express his feelings with a voice.
5. Gamma of emotions. On the wall are pasted drawings with simple faces (emoticons), which show three states: happiness, sadness and neutrality. In everyday communication, the parent and child use them. The child, looking at these emoticons, must say how you feel now, or how you felt when something happened, etc.
6. Continue the sentence . Children should continue the sentence you started: Happy when ... I'm sad when ... I'm angry ... I love ... I do not like ... etc. The parent writes down the answers, and then swap with the baby.
7. Fingers tell me how you feel . The famous game is well developing emotional intelligence, in which children give answers using the fingers of one hand (the thumb means a lot, the middle finger, little finger and little finger little or nothing). To show it is necessary to discuss how the child feels in a particular situation with gradation - very happy or not very happy, etc.
8. Drawing (modeling) of emotions. Children are invited to draw (to mold from plasticine) a situation in which they felt themselves in a certain way. With the help of colors and lines express a sense of happiness, sadness, etc.