Homemade Empathy Poster

Are you happy? Scared? Shy? Mad? We love this fun empathy poster that Annie, from Sensible Living, created for her daughter, Lily.

Annie states on her Web site, "I don’t know about you but I spend enough time asking my child how someone seems to feel and what they might be needing, that a game or poster like this could be useful to have around."

Lily and Annie wrote out a list together of what feelings to use for the poster. Annie states, "When we were actually taking the pictures I’d say, 'What does mad look like to you?' or 'Can you show me how you look when you’re excited?'" The results are honest and true and all together charming.

What a great idea!

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the bottom row, middle picture, is hilarious!

posted by BuddhaBellysMum on August 26th 2009 at 9:38am
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i like the rolling eyes one!
What a good idea to make a child more aware of reading other people's body language and also to be aware of the body language signals they are sending.

posted by Enamorada on August 26th 2009 at 12:19pm
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Love this! We play a game at the dinner table that we call "Faces." Bascially our 3yo, my husband or I says an emotion and everyone else has to make that face--happy, sad, shy, surprised, etc. It's lots of fun.

posted by smilingaimee on August 26th 2009 at 1:23pm
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wonderful!
this makes me happy!

posted by kelseykleiman on August 26th 2009 at 11:54pm
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I'm sooooo going to do this with my stepson!

(mark an X on my christmas list: inlaws and stepson's mom)

posted by sandra_margarete on August 27th 2009 at 3:46am
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Fantastic! I'm a child therapist and you have my stamp of approval!!

posted by dorcasgazelle on October 5th 2009 at 12:03am
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