The picture of emotions helps children aged 6 and over to recognize, accept and talk about their emotions and encourages them to talk about themselves. This fun and engaging game offers numerous illustrated tiles that allow you to compose fantastic or real stories, an expression of your inner world.

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The tiles

The game contains numerous tiles illustrated with settings, characters, thoughts and emotions, and other empty ones to be customized with the erasable marker, allowing players to tell stories through which to express their emotions.

18 tiles for each category:
SETTINGS, CHARACTERS, THOUGHTS, EMOTIONS, CUSTOMIZABLE AND REWRITABLE

8 frame tiles
1 erasable marker

How to play?

The game consists of constructing a puzzle which ideally is composed of a 5×5 grid, where each row represents a category and can contain five puzzle tiles. Each row of the puzzle is characterized by a different joint that allows you to connect only tiles of the same category. After placing all the tiles divided by category and order of use on the table, the adult helps the child to familiarize with them, observing the drawings and descriptions on the back, so that he/she learns to recognize them more quickly.

Adults and children assemble the frame of their own “picture” of the story, thus creating an internal construction space where the 5 lines to be filled with tiles can be identified. Once the puzzle is built, the child will be able to tell his story!

The different categories

In the first row the child can build the setting of the story he/she  is inventing. In the second row the child can choose the characters of his/her story. The third row is devoted to thoughts. In the fourth row, the child can decide, among the emotions depicted and described on the back, which one to use for his/her story, indicating what the characters feel. The fifth row is reserved for customization: here only 5 empty tiles fit together, which can be rewritten with the felt-tip pen provided, in which the child can draw and write whatever he/she wants, to add new categories to the story that he/she has invented according to his/her imagination, desires, inner world and dreams.

The flexibility of use and the useful internal guide book make this puzzle easily usable by psychologists and psychotherapists, teachers and parents.

Leaf through the instructions pages which have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:

THE AUTHOR

Fabio Celi Psychologist, psychotherapist, director of the O.U.C. (Operative Unit Complex) of Psychology for USL Toscana Northwest, is professor of clinical psychology at the Universities of Parma and Pisa.