Matching Faces to Bodies
 
Without realizing it, children know how to read emotions through facial expressions and body postures, and they enjoy this game of matching the two.  (No. of children: 4-6)
 
Objectives
1. Verbally expreses cause and effect relationships between feelings and behavior. (SE V)
2. Able to make analogies.  (48-60 mo. Lang. IIA)
3. Tells what action is going on in picture.  (36-48 mo. Lang. IB)
4. Demonstrates simple action words.  (24-20 mo. Lang IIIB)
5. Recognizes fine detil and given a choce of two, points to correct picture . (24-30 mo.  Lang IB
 
 
Materials: Emotion pictures: face cards, 4x4" card showing happy, sad, mad afraid, surprise, etc. and body cards, 4x4" showing simple bodies that express the facia emotions.  Game board: 8x12", divided into 6 spaces -- 3 spaces above and 3 below.
 
 
 
Procedure
1. Show the happy face card and have that emotion identified.  Ask each child, "What things make you happy?  Show me how you look when you're happy.  Stand up and show me with you whole body."  Put the body cards on the able; "Find the gody that matches the happy face."  Repeat this procedure with each emotion face card.
 
2. Place the ame board on the table.  "Now we are going to play a game with these pictures.  Watch carefully!"  Put three face cards ont he top row and two body cards below their matching faces.  Leave one body space bank.  Place the other emotion cards on the table.  "Find the missing body."  Allow time for one of the childrne to noatice the analogy and expalin, perhaps with prompting, to the other children.
 
3. Always using the top row for face cards and the bottom row for body cards, continue the procedure until each child has had a turn.  Either a face or body card could be matched.  To simplify the game, show a child one emotion pictur.  Give achoice of two grossly different facial expressions or boty postures to choose from for his or  her "missing" picture.
 
Variations:
1. An individual child mimes a facial expression.  The others find the corresponding body posture card to "match" them.
2. Wearing a paper bag mask, an individual child mimes a body posture.  The others match the proper face card to their "living" statue.