Game manual

Target

The parents and the children needs to cooperate to express their emotions and thoughts in a creative way. They need to get some materials like pencils, markers, painting, ... to work around their creation. In the middle of the table our room needs to be a big white paper or a white blanket, where they can express there selves. At the moment that the activity starts, they can choose a part of the paper or blanket where they are going to work on. They need to make a drawing or another expression of their feelings and how they think. They can do this by making a drawing or by making an art piece of their selves. They can do whatever they want, but it needs to be on the same paper or blanket so it makes one big whole. When they are ready with their art pieces they can talk about their work. They can tell about what they have made, but this is not an obligation. They may talk about it, but when they don’t feel comfortable around it, they don’t need to do the talking part.

The CDC head can make a color code, this means that some colors present a feeling. This can make it easier for the toddler to express himself and to choose the colors. For example:

  • Red = Anger

  • Blue = Sadness

  • Yellow = Happiness

  • Black = Anxiety

The target of this activity is the fact that the parents and the toddler needs to cooperate on a painting that is presenting their family. This needs to show how the family members are feeling themselves and how they think about things. They have to make one whole to show each other their feelings and thoughts without having to talk about it when they don’t want to do that.

 

Position on the wire 

This activity can be placed on the “pull the wire on his own” position because of the fact that the family members have to learn something about each other’s emotions. They have to stand open for the feelings of each other. On this way they can aligning with each other and they can come on one line. When the toddler shows his feelings and emotions to the parent, the parent can fulfill his needs more easy.

 

Part of the parent

Part of the toddler

The parents can do what they like and can feel like children again. It’s important that they are honest about their feelings and about the thoughts that they are having. They have to show their children that they are honest, but they also have to give recognition to the work that their child have made. The parents can’t judge about the creation of the toddler and they need to give the children the opportunity to express himself.

The parents will show a feeling of interest and recognition when they react on a positive way to what the children have made. The parents will know more about what is going on in the head of their child and how their child is feeling himself. Because of this, there is an opportunity that the parents can react faster on what is going on in their children’s head and the emotions that they are feeling.

The children can draw what is going on in their head and where they think of. It’s important that they try to draw what is going on and how they feel about it. They can draw what they like to do, or what they don’t like to do, but also what makes them angry or sad.

The toddler gets freedom in showing his thoughts and feelings without being judged by others. When the toddler sees that the parents reacts on a positive and confidential way, the toddler will get the idea that the parents understand what is going on in his head and that the parents can recognize his needs. Because of this the children gets the idea that he isn’t on his own.

 

Necessities

Evaluation

  • Large white paper or blanket
  • Painting, pencils, markers
  • Possibly aprons
  • Nice music on the background
  • Emoji’s: happy, sad, mad, afraid

The parents and the toddler can evaluate the activity. They can do this by showing emoticons that are presented on the table. There are happy, mad, sad and afraid emoticons. It’s the intention that the parents and the toddler choose an emotion and hold it in the air. This emotion needs to represent how they felt during the activity.

 

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