Help kids practice identifying and naming emotions by exploring facial expressions and body language with this interactive Naming Feelings Game Set 2! This engaging social emotional learning (SEL) activity encourages children to notice nonverbal communication clues, expand their emotional vocabulary, and consider how someone might be feeling.

With 40 printable self-correcting poke cards and an interactive digital game, children can practice interpreting facial expressions, gestures, and body language through playful, hands-on learning. Differentiated response options make it easy to introduce feelings identification skills and provide additional challenges as children develop their understanding.

Perfect for elementary school counseling, child therapy, social skills groups, speech-language sessions, and classroom SEL lessons, this digital and printable game provides flexible opportunities to explore emotions, perspective-taking, and social awareness.

📦 What's Included:

✔️ 40 Printable Self-Correcting Poke Cards

• Hands-on cards that invite children to identify possible emotions using facial expressions and body language.
• The self-correcting format allows students to check their responses independently.

✔️ Interactive Digital Naming Feelings Game

• A digital game that provides additional practice identifying emotions through nonverbal communication clues.

✔️ Differentiated Response Options

• Multiple-choice activities with three or six answer choices, along with open-response opportunities for children who are ready to generate their own answers.

✔️ Facial Expressions and Body Language Practice

• Opportunities to explore how facial expressions, gestures, and body language may offer clues about someone's emotional experience.

✔️ Printable and Digital Activities

• Use the poke cards for hands-on practice or the digital game for individual counseling, small groups, classroom instruction, and screen sharing.

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary | 👥 Individual counseling, small groups + classroom SEL | 🖨️ Printable PDF + digital game | 🎯 Naming feelings, facial expressions, body language + social awareness

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

Want a discount on this and more activities for teaching feelings? The bundle includes:

✔️ Naming Feelings Games Bundle

• Three sets with 120 printable self-correcting poke cards and 3 digital games.

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Identifying and naming emotions

✔️ Recognizing facial expressions

✔️ Exploring body language and gestures

✔️ Building emotional vocabulary

✔️ Developing social awareness

✔️ Practicing perspective-taking

✔️ Recognizing nonverbal communication clues

✔️ Considering multiple possible emotional experiences

✔️ Developing observation and reasoning skills

✔️ Expressing ideas about emotions

✔️ Building confidence with emotional identification

✔️ Practicing independent learning and self-checking

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Introduce facial expressions and body language during individual counseling
• Use the printable poke cards for hands-on feelings identification practice
• Play the digital game during small-group counseling
• Offer three-answer multiple-choice activities for additional structure
• Use six-answer options to challenge students who are ready for more choices
• Invite children to generate their own answers with open-response prompts
• Discuss how body language may provide clues about emotions
• Explore why the same facial expression might have different meanings
• Practice considering more than one possible feeling
• Use the poke cards in social emotional learning centers
• Display the digital game on an interactive whiteboard
• Incorporate the activity into classroom SEL lessons
• Use the digital game during telehealth or remote counseling
• Pair the game with conversations about asking others how they feel rather than making assumptions
• Combine Sets 1, 2, and 3 for additional feelings identification practice

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

School counselors, school social workers, child therapists, mental health counselors, psychologists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, elementary classroom teachers, homeschool educators, and families.

Especially useful for professionals supporting children who are developing emotional vocabulary, social awareness, and an understanding of nonverbal communication.

The differentiated response options make it easy to adjust the activity to different language, learning, and communication needs.

🖨️ Format & Download:

This digital resource includes:

✔️ 40 printable self-correcting poke cards

✔️ Interactive digital feelings identification game

✔️ Differentiated multiple-choice and open-response activities

✔️ Facial expressions and body language practice

Print and prepare the poke cards for hands-on activities. Children can select their answers using an appropriate pointing tool and check their responses.

Use the digital game on a computer, interactive whiteboard, or through screen sharing.

📌 Important Notes:

• Facial expressions and body language can provide clues about emotions, but they do not tell us exactly how someone feels. A smile does not always mean someone is happy, and looking away does not necessarily mean someone is upset or uninterested.
• Encourage children to consider different possibilities rather than assuming there is only one correct interpretation of another person's emotional experience.
• People communicate and express emotions in different ways. The goal is to build curiosity, emotional vocabulary, and social awareness, not to teach children that they must use particular facial expressions or body language.
• This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Due to the digital nature of this resource, all sales are final and refunds are not available.