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Here's the link to a topic on our forum where I store my collection of online emotions games/resources.  Lots and lots of fun stuff and printables for various ages. 

http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=17136&am p;KW=emotions+games

We did pics of emotions and in playgroup we made social balls out of those big cheap balls (4) from walmart and a sharpie pen:

Emotions/faces: sad, mad, happy, silly,sleepy, hungry, sick, excited, bored...ect.

Animals/imitate: cow, dog, horse, pig, cat, monkey, donkey, turkey, goat, tiger..ect.

Pretend playing: drums, flute, silly dance, conductor, rocking a baby, riding a motorcycle, washing face, brushing teeth, swimming, jumping, ect..

Favorite: song, animal, toy, food, candy, movie, color, game, drink, sport, dance..ect..

The kids passed the ball around and had to point to word (may need help with reading the word)  and act it out and it taught the other kids to pay attention and learn from each other and use their actions and expressions..

The kids loved it and all the balls cost less than bucks:)

Play hide and seek only with your eyes: Hide a toy and then let your kid
find it by following your eyes.
I think a lot of time we (I have certainly) learn to adjust to our kids needs.
Since my son does not usually look at my face to see what is going on I
have become used to give him that information verbally. I now try to do
this less and find ways to have him look at my face to figure it out. So
instead of saying 'that makes me confued' , I will now make a confused
face and have him reference that.We do an RDI exercise in my son's ABA program called "eyes on the prize" which is similar to mom of twins description. He has to follow the tutors eye gaze to find the prize that has been hidden in the room. I'll have to check the sheet later to see if they are any more details in the description. They just talked about starting it at his team meeting last week.We do a program through ABA where we hide a candy (or something desirable) under a cup in a row of 2 - 3 cups.  We say, "Where am I looking?" and my son will look up at our eyes and then follow our gaze to the cup. 

ideas you all have to get kids to look at someone's face more and read faces a bit better?

should i google, but not sure what.....???

Thanks all, this site is awesome.

Here's an idea for reading facial expressions.

Have your husband (or a friend) take a bunch of pictures of you making different facial expressions.  You take some of him as well, get other sibs involved.  Then put the pictures in a binder and label them "happy" "sad" "angry" "confused" etc. and go over them with your child.  You can make a game of it and have him guess what the face means.  Instead of a binder, you could make flash cards...

I haven't done this myself, it was just an idea that popped into my head.

We ask my son what color our eyes are?  Also, if he wants something, many times we tell him to look at us and then give it to him when he looks us in the eye.  Another thing is when he is reaching for a toy or looking at one we put it next to our eyes as he is talking to us, or interested in it.

There is a feelings game and a facial expressions game at www.do2learn.com.

http://www.do2learn.com/games/feelingsgame/index.htm

http://www.do2learn.com/games/facialexpressions/index.htm

WIMomOf239327.8594560185We put stickers on our faces. On eyebrows and raise them in surprise. Cheeks, nose. you can really make them move, practice in the mirror. Do your face and see if they pay attention.My first post, yay! I work at a camp for kids with A.D.H.D./A.S.D. and this was one of the things we worked on. With some of the kids saying "where's my nose/look at my nose" worked, but some of the kids just pointed. With the recognizing faces/emotions we made it a game. I know there are some great websites on the forum with emotion games. We had a "how am I feeling" sheet where a range of emotions were displayed. I don't think we utilized this enough but it's the kind of thing where the child can put the "This is how I feel" magnet over the emotion that they are feeling. We'd also draw faces and then try to imitate them and guess what emotion it was.     Another fun game was to place paper strips on the floor and write an different emotion on each one. Put them far enough apart that the child has to take a big step/jump from each. They'd get up, roll big squishy dice and hop that many spaces to an emotion. Then they'd act it out and the rest of the group would follow.

Hope this helps!!

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