Emotions games and activities
for ESL kids lessons
Games and activities for teaching “Emotions & feelings” to ESL kids
![Happy](https://eslkidstuff.com/2023-dev/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/happy-1.gif)
Emotions / Feelings guess
After teaching emotions/feelings vocabulary (happy, sad, angry, surprised, grumpy, sleepy, etc.) have students play a guessing game. First the teacher acts out a feeling and the students try to guess what it is. The winning student gets to act out the next feeling, and so on.
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Feelings and emotions lesson plan
We also have a FREE lesson plan on describing feelings and emotions which includes games and activities as well as other lesson materials.
Click to download our Feelings and emotions lesson plan.
![Angry](https://eslkidstuff.com/2023-dev/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/angry.gif)
Machine
This is good for practicing emotions and sounds. Pick one student to start. Give that student an emotion or a feeling to act out (e.g. “angry”). They must do an action and make a noise (“Grrrr!”). One at a time students can add to it and you essentially create a “machine”. This is a really fun game! (Submitted by N. Budoy)
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Feelings and emotions song
We have a song available for download about describing feelings and emotions called “The feelings song“.
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