Emotions Mirror Me Activity Cards

The Mirror Me Activity Cards offer an interactive and engaging way for children to explore and understand their emotions.

This set includes 16 double-sided activity cards and 4 information cards designed to help children recognise, reflect on, and communicate their feelings.

Focusing on 8 core emotions, excited, calm, jealous, anxious, scared, angry, happy, and sad; the cards provide a simple and fun method for children to identify emotions by using their own facial expressions. Pairing these activity cards with the Little Looking Mirrors set enhances learning, allowing children to observe how emotions look on their faces.

Educational Benefits:

• Emotional Awareness: Teaches children to identify and recognise 8 key emotions.
• Self-Reflection: Encourages children to reflect on their feelings by observing and mimicking facial expressions.
• Communication Skills: Promotes discussions around emotions, helping children express how they feel.
• Regulation Skills: Helps children learn techniques for recognising their feelings and managing their emotional responses.
• Developed with Experts: Created with input from children's mental and emotional wellbeing professionals to support emotional intelligence development.
• Versatile Learning Tool: Can be used in classrooms, therapy sessions, or at home for individual or group activities.

Classroom Ideas:

• Emotion Reflection: Use the Mirror Me cards with the Little Looking Mirrors to help children mimic and identify different emotional expressions.
• Group Discussion: Have students take turns pulling a card and discussing a time they felt that emotion.
• Role-Playing: Let children act out scenarios where they express and manage their emotions, using the cards as a reference.
• Emotion Sorting: Ask children to sort the cards into categories (e.g., positive vs. negative emotions) and discuss each emotion.
• Emotion Journals: Pair the cards with journaling activities where children can write about or draw the emotions they have experienced.

Ages: Suitable for children aged 3+ years.

Card Dimensions: 21 (W) x 15 (H) cm