Emotional Building Blocks
$2.50
Development Level: Infant
Learning Areas: ECSEL, Engineering, Movement
Overview: Support children in constructing using colorful, emotional building blocks!
Materials:
- Colorful soft blocks
- Printed images of babies experiencing each of the four basic emotions (enough for one image to be taped to each block)
- Masking tape
- Classroom wall-mounted mirror (if applicable to your classroom set-up) or a hand-held mirror
- Tape printed emotions faces to age-appropriate colored soft blocks
- Set up play area in front of your classroom wall-mounted mirror (if applicable)
- Support children in building with the colored soft blocks while verbalizing emotions used
- If in front of a mirror, model each facial expression used by babies on the blocks and encourage babies to try to make the facial expressions by mirroring your own
