Photo Feelings Fun Deck

Photo Feelings Fun Deck - 28 feelings in one tin

Photo Feelings Fun Deck is a nice quality deck of cards picturing 28 feelings on 28 pairs of cards (56 cards total). There are four game suggestions and all the cards come in a nice tin. This deck is made by Super Duper and if you've never been to their site, it's a fun place to visit, although I think prices are a little high. Their products mainly cater to speech therapists, but they do have OT stuff and they have some nice free handout resources. I just visited the site so I could link it and found that I had to enlarge the page because their font is so small. Oh joy, it reminds me that I just had a birthday two days ago. With all that said, I bought my fun decks on Amazon. Other products by Super Duper that I have blogged about are among my most visited posts:

• Therapy Ball Activities Fun Deck 
• Body Awareness Fun Deck 
• Scooter Board Fun Deck
• Upper Body and Core Strength Fun Deck

There are 28 different facial expressions in the Photo Feelings Fun Deck and each card features one face with a clear expression.

Each card is numbered in the top right hand corner. There are 56 cards because there are 2 each of each face. The cards are identical except that one of a set will say A after the number and the second of the set will say B. The 28 different feelings are:

• 4 happy
• 4 angry
• 4 sad
• 4 scared
• 4 surprised
• 4 thoughtful
• 4 tired

Because there are no words on the cards, you may also identify a card by another feeling. For instance happy could also be glad, cheerful, joyful, etc.

Here are the four game suggestions:

• Act it Out - Place as many cards as you want face-up on the table. Ask the child to throw a bean bag or other small item on the cards. Look where the item has landed and ask the individual to identify and make the same expression that is shown on the card. Ask what would make them feel that way.
• Circle Up - This game will take more than one player who will work in teams of two. Clip a card on the back of each player's shirt. Player one will turn their back to player two so they can see the card. Player two will imitate the expression for Player one. If player one can identify the feeling, both win a point. Play continues until all cards have been used. Player with the most points is the winner.
• What's Different - Deal the cards to the players who can fan and hold them or place them face-up on the table in front of them. First player takes one of their cards, places it in the middle and makes up a sentence about that card based on the expression. The next player places any card from their hand next to the first card and adds a sentence to the story. Play until each person has had a chance to play one card, then start another round.
• Right On - Each player receives one card from each set, so they have all seven different cards. One person tells a story. Another person holds up one of their cards to tell how they would feel in that situation and why.

Try this:

• Review the seven different emotion cards before playing any games.
• Show how the same situation may make different people feel differently. Lay card from each set face-up on the table. Tell a short story. Have each person pick one card to describe how they would feel and compare the differences.
• Show how one situation can make you feel more than one way. Tell a short story and ask the individual to pick all the cards showing their mixed feelings about the situation.
• Place one card face up on the table. Take turns saying a word that would describe how the person looks. Go until you can't think of any more.
• Play a standard memory/match game and each time a player makes a match they must name the emotion.
• Play Go Fish. Each player will have a chance to name an emotion on each turn. Or instead of naming the emotion, have them make the emotion when asking for the card.

In the tin: 56 cards (28 identical sets) depicting 7 different feelings.

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