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Emotional Build Up: Feelings Flashcards & Card Game
Eight feelings. Eighty words for them.
- Ages
- 4+
- Players
- 2-6
- Playing time
- 15-25 minutes
- Skills
- Emotions · vocabulary · self-regulation
- No preparation
- Screen-free
- Easy to play
- Small-group friendly
- Classroom or home
- Used in therapy
- Sale price
- $25.00 USD
- Regular price
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- Regular price
- $25.00 USD
- Unit price
- per
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How do I use it?
- Deal 5 cards each (older players can choose 7). Put the rest face down as the pick-up pile and flip the top card to start the discard pile.
- On your turn, pick up one card and discard one, building a hand of one emotion.
- Younger players win with a full hand of one emotion. Older players (7+) must include that emotion's leading card.
- Twist cards change the game: Meltdown, Great Day, Meh and Mood Swing.
What's in the box?
- 88 tarot-size cards (70 x 120 mm) in a sturdy box.
- 8 emotion families with 10 words each, plus 8 twist cards.
- Rules card for younger and older players.
- Every card: the word, its meaning, a sentence, and Chinese, Spanish and Japanese translations.
What does it teach?
- Names feelings precisely, then the shade of them.
- Builds Tier 2 vocabulary and synonyms.
- Supports self-regulation through language.
Curriculum connections
- Australia: English vocabulary and Personal and Social capability, Foundation to Year 4.
- US: Language standards L.K.5 to L.3.5 and SEL frameworks.
- UK: PSHE and vocabulary. NZ: Health and PE, Level 1-2.
- Free lesson plans on the Downloads page.
For therapy
- Emotion identification in counselling and psychology.
- Emotional vocabulary for social-skills groups.
- Calm, structured play for anxious or neurodiverse children.
Description
Description
Feel it, name it, say it!
Children who can name their feelings handle big emotions better, and Emotional Build Up makes learning those words a game.
The 80 colourful feeling-word cards cover 8 core emotions: happy, sad, angry, scared, calm, surprised, excited and disgusted. Kids go beyond "good" and "bad" to words like cheerful, frustrated, nervous, peaceful, astonished and thrilled. As they play, they're learning to tell "mad" apart from "grumpy" and "worried" apart from "spooked".
Wild cards add drama. Great Day! makes every other player pick up a card, Fiasco makes you pick up 2, and Meh… and the Grand Poobah shake things up. It also opens easy conversations about how everyone is feeling today.
Key features:
- 80 feeling-word cards across 8 core emotions
- Use as flashcards for quick daily practice, or play the games for family fun
- 3 games in one pack: Match Stack, Rummy and Crazy 8 style
- Wild cards that change the game: Grand Poobah, Fiasco, Great Day! and Meh…
- Each card has a feeling description, an example sentence, and Chinese, Japanese and Spanish translations
- Builds emotional literacy, self-regulation and social-emotional skills
- Trusted by educators, speech pathologists and OTs
- Easy rules for ages 3+
- Printed in Melbourne, Australia
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8 emotion families with 10 words each, from upset to heartbroken.
