Buddies Dominoes

The Buddies Dominoes set is an engaging, hands-on tool designed to help children explore, identify, and understand their emotions through play.

Featuring 24 durable dominoes, each one showcases a different character from the Bag of Buddies, such as happy, sad, angry, anxious, excited, scared, jealous, and calm. These colourful dominoes provide a fun and creative way for children to recognise their feelings, while building fine motor skills and emotional intelligence.

Educational Benefits:

• Emotional Awareness: Helps children identify and understand a wide range of emotions through visual representation.
• Interactive Learning: Encourages children to engage with emotions by matching and discussing feelings during play.
• Social-Emotional Development: Promotes empathy and emotional literacy by enabling children to talk about their feelings and connect with others.
• Fine Motor Skills: Handling and placing the dominoes improves fine motor coordination and dexterity.
• Creative Expression: Children can create their own games and stories based on the emotions represented, boosting creativity.

Classroom Ideas:

• Emotion Matching: Have children match dominoes with similar emotions or use them to discuss how they feel.
• Emotion Stories: Use the dominoes as prompts to create short stories or role-playing activities that explore different feelings.
• Group Reflection: Invite children to share experiences related to the emotions depicted on the dominoes.
• Emotion Memory Game: Lay the dominoes face down and have children take turns flipping them over, trying to find matching emotion pairs.
• Circle Time Discussions: Use the dominoes as conversation starters to talk about emotional experiences in a group setting.

Ages: Suitable for children aged 3+ years.

Dimensions:

• Each domino: 12.3 (W) x 6.3 (L) cm