Feeling Faces

Each card shows a generated face plus a short scenario. First sort the feeling into one of four energy zones (high or low energy, pleasant or unpleasant), then choose a healthy regulation tool. Some faces are masked, a smile hiding sadness, or sarcasm, so read past the surface.

• Pick the zone that matches the feeling's energy and pleasantness
• Then choose the calming or coping tool best suited to it
• Spot masked feelings, where the face doesn't match the real emotion
• Daily gives everyone the same round; Practice deals fresh random cards

• Desktop: click a zone, then click a tool, then Next
• Phone & tablet: tap a zone, tap a tool, then tap Next

• Use the words in the scenario, not just the face, context reveals masked feelings
• Match high-energy unpleasant feelings to grounding tools, low-energy ones to gentle lifts
• There's no losing here, naming the feeling correctly is the skill being practised

Feeling Faces is about naming feelings by their energy and choosing a kind next step, building emotional literacy.

• Skills: emotional literacy, naming feelings, kind responses
• Best for: ages 4–9
• For parents & teachers: naming feelings and responding kindly.

Sorting a feeling into one of four zones by energy and pleasantness is the circumplex model of affect, which arranges emotions on those two axes rather than as a list.

Requiring the zone before the specific word is the original sequencing.

That order matches how emotion classification works. Arousal and valence are the dimensions people can report reliably, and the precise word comes afterwards — which is why naming the zone first is easier and more accurate than reaching for a label straight away.

Feeling Faces is an emotional-literacy game about naming feelings by their energy and choosing a kind next step. It's an original, free browser game made for PlayPendium.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.