Emotional Building Blocks

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