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I’ve been teaching storytelling for 20 years, so I am
always looking for new games and activities to keep it fresh, both for me and
my students. A few years ago, I purchased some emoji stress balls at my local
dollar store, thinking I might be able to use them in my class one day.
Finally, last week inspiration struck.
Initially, I only had six of the emoji balls. I immediately knew this game was
a success and I would need more for a larger group. I found them on Amazon.
I tried the game three times with smaller groups until all nineteen of my
students came together. They were eager to play the game again. It was
controlled chaos, lots of laughter and the students loved playing with their
stories, changing up the emotions, adding facial expressions, and gestures.
Below are the instructions for Emoji Emotion II.
- Students stand in a circle.
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Each one is given an emoji ball.
- Teacher assigns a number to each student one through six since there are six numbers on the die.
- If there are more than six students the count begins at one again with the seventh student. Example: If you have a class of eighteen you would assign the numbers one through six three times.
- Teacher plays music as the students pass the balls. Note: I queued up music via YouTube on my phone.
- Teacher stops the music at their discretion. When the music stops the students keep whatever emoji ball is in their hand.
- Teacher throws the die. Whatever number is rolled, the student who has that number chooses a line of dialogue from their story and tells it with the emotion on the emoji ball, even if it is not the correct tone for the story.
- If you have more than six students then each student with the rolled number takes a turn.
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Repeat the process as time allows, playing the music each time as the students
pass the emoji balls.
- My favorite sport is baseball.
- I have a big, brown dog.
- I went to the beach last summer.
Emoji Emotions: Interactive Storytelling Game
https://karenchace.blogspot.com/2022/04/emoji-emotions-interactive-storytelling.html.
This game is definitely a keeper! If you
decide to try this out with your students, please let me know how it
turned out for you and for your students. I would love to hear what you think about
it. Please leave a blog comment if you have time.
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