AAAAARGH! Getting mad is okay. It happens to all of us. Yet, left unchecked, that anger could lead us to make poor choices. There are lots of ways to respond positively to anger and other difficult emotions. In this game, players will build up their knowledge on how to do just that.
This fun anger management board game helps children:
Learn how to cope and calm down when they get angry
Use mindfulness and breathing exercises to center their focus on the present
Explore what makes them angry
Improve their ability to express themselves
Understand that if one coping strategy doesn’t feel right to them, they can try another
Everyone is different, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution to managing anger. Yet, when we take the time to learn about ourselves and our emotions, we can find what works. So ride the Roller Coaster, and don’t lose hope, because next time you get angry, you’ll know how to cope.
Game Includes:
1 Game Board
50 Coping Cards
50 Chaos Cards
2 Dice
6 Game pieces
Instructions
No Waries™ is a fast-paced exciting social emotional learning game for kids. Kids and adults alike can grow frustrated when they are unable to express or even identify what they are feeling.
The aim of this game is to empower kids with a stronger emotional vocabulary, and equip them with the ability to describe a vast array of feelings. This will lead them to feel more successful and less frustrated.
Based on the classic card game War, players will be challenged to use a wide variety of emotions vocabulary words.
Game Benefits:
Develop stronger language and vocabulary skills to better describe their emotions
Differentiate between similar emotions like sad and lonely
Express their feelings with words
Improves critical thinking and listening skills
Promote social bonding with classmates, friends, and family
Develop a relationship and share more about themselves when working one-on-one with a counselor, mentor, or a teacher
Have fun while learning
Ready, Set, Grow is based on the classic card game, Go Fish. In this joy-inducing game of strategy and intrigue, players will match cards together and learn how to exercise the power of a Growth Mindset.
This fun, disguised learning game helps children:
Learn the difference between growth and fixed mindset.
Develop the strength to confront the fear of failure.
Explore how to practice a Growth Mindset at school and at home.
Overcome emotional obstacles.
Discover new challenges and strengths.
Problem-solve real-world situations.
Game Includes:
112 playing cards
2 answer cards
12 instruction cards
Match Master™ is a captivating social emotional learning game for kids. Being able to precisely identify your emotions is a key component in emotional maturity and essential to practicing restorative justice. This game inspires conversations about emotions and helps players to develop their emotional vocabulary so they are better able to express themselves.
In the game, players must match wacky, animated faces displaying a wide range of emotions. With each matching pair, players will also find two words describing the emotion: one common word, and a more advanced word. To earn points, players must describe when they have felt that emotion.
Game Benefits:
Exercise their memory, focus, and critical listening skills
Identify what triggers certain emotions
Promote social bonding with classmates, friends, and family
Develop a relationship and share more about themselves when working one-on-one with a counselor, mentor, or a teacher.
Have fun while learning
This imaginative dice game challenges kids to tap into their emotions to build their own picture story. We all experience difficult emotions like anger, sadness, and fear. These are natural and normal. If we take a look at the big picture though, we can see that mad can lead us to motivated, sadness to strength, and fear to focus. To get there, you’ll need to build your own story.
Game Includes:
10 Dice
Instructions
Game Benefits:
Process difficult emotions like anger, sadness and fear
Practice critical thinking
Exercise creativity
Develop their story telling ability
Recognize their own strengths
Communicate their own feelings using words
Build their sense of empathy for others
Learn that they have choices when reacting to difficult emotions