Therapy Activity

Charades

Last Updated: 30 October 2024

Appropriate Population: 

  • School-age (5 years and up)
  • Ability to read
  • Age-appropriate or mild delay in cognitive and language abilities

Goal: Identifying others’ emotions   

  • Perspective-taking
  • Understanding emotions
  • Expressing emotions

Steps:

  1. Create flashcards with the targeted emotions on them. 
  2. Take turns picking up a flashcard and acting out the emotion using your body language and facial expressions.
  3. The other person will try to guess the emotion.

Step-up: 

  • The person acting out the emotion can describe a situation or conversation where this emotion may be felt/conveyed. 

Step down:

  • Only the AHA acts out the emotion. The client will try to guess the emotion. 

Resources:

List of basic emotions

  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Angry
  • Frightened/scared
  • Disgust
  • Annoyed
  • Frustrated
  • Lonely
  • Excited
  • Bored
  • Nervous
  • Shy
  • Confused
  • Unsure
  • Curious
  • Tired
  • Embarrassed
  • Worried
  • Selfish
Nicole
Fora's Speech Pathology team

Nicole

Fora's Speech Pathology team

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