Animotions

Animotions teaches children ages five to six how to creatively express and identify emotions. This game combines the familiar concept of animals with the less familiar concept of emotions. Children should feel comfortable learning and expressing emotions in a fun and safe environment.

Project Brief

The project goal was to design a game for a five year old focused on emotional expression. The needs include: functionality for the age range, ability to have creative freedom, educational component, and imaginative play pattern for emotional exploration.

Teaching Concepts

Animotions was created to teach children how to express their emotions. It forces them to physically act out specific emotions and grasp the characteristics that make each different.

Animotions also challenges children to combine their knowledge of animals with the newer skill of expressing emotions to keep children more engaged in the game.

Graphics

Each wheel has twelve different graphics on them. They consist of basic animals and emotions to allow for easy recognition by the child. The child will then have to use their knowledge to convey their animal and emotion for the other players to guess.

How to Play

1. Choose a player to act first. The players will rotate clockwise to determine the order following the first player.

2. The acting player will spin both wheels with the handle cranks to randomly generate an animal and an emotion.

3. The acting player will act out the animal that was spun feeling the emotion that was spun through noises and actions, but NO WORDS!!

4. Other players will try to guess which animal AND which emotion is being acted out.

5. If the other players guess the correct pair, the acting player will receive a point and sit down. The next player in the circle will come up and spin the wheels.

*The first player to ten points wins the game!*

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