Emotional scavenger hunt

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Emotions Scavenger Hunt

Updated for Staying at Home

“With children, it is the joint moments of delight that build the social brain.” ~ Mariah Moser

This activity was written before we were hit with the global pandemic of the Covid-19 Coronavirus. In order to help our community we created a Mental Health Scavenger Hunt; be sure to check it out! We also came up with a way to play this emotions scavenger hunt with the family in the safety of your home. You can also turn it into an online activity for a Zoom classroom. Scroll down for the instructions below.

One of my favorite things to do with my young friends is to watch people. We do this at school, at home and when we are on outings. Quite often the children that we work with are overwhelmed in busy environments so paying attention to other people can be challenging. I have found that it is best to isolate this skill in order for the child to be able to focus. So we created an emotions scavenger hunt. I tell the child that the only thing that we will be doing is watching people; we can relax and not worry about doing anything else. Taking the time out to sit and make observations is an extremely valuable use of time and attention.

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Feelings and Emotions Scavenger Hunt

This Emotions Scavenger Hunt is a great way to build emotional awareness, perspective taking, whole body listening, and social skills. By focusing on other people in a relaxed environment, it takes the pressure off by eliminating the need to interact while experiencing the various feelings that need to be explored, recognized and defined. After all, people watching has been a popular sport throughout history.

Target Skills For Your Feelings and Emotions Scavenger Hunt:

Identifying Facial Expressions
Social-Emotional
Visual Scanning

Materials You Need for a Feelings and Emotions Scavenger Hunt:

Download and print the Emotions Scavenger Hunt Worksheet

Stay at Home During the Coronavirus Pandemic Feelings and Emotions Scavenger Hunt:

The original idea for this scavenger hunt was to go out where there was plenty of people and practice observing social cues. Don't worry, you can still have fun with this activity!

Print out two copies of the first page of The Emotions Scavenger Hunt and one copy of the rest of the pdf. The first page has a variety of emojis.
Cut out the feelings emojis. Fold in half and put in a jar.
Each family member chooses one of the pieces of paper in the jar.
Over the next hour everyone playing the game should pretend to have that emotion. When players notice they check off that feeling on their scavenger hunt list.
Once someone guesses a feeling the other player should pick another feeling from the jar. Continue picking papers and acting out feelings until all the feelings have been acted out and guessed.
Talk about what cues helped to show the feeling. Was it tone of voice, body language, facial expression?

Whoever was able to cross off the most feelings on their list wins!

Online Classroom Version of the Emotions Scavenger Hunt:

This version will take a little preplanning (and a lot of emailing). Follow the instructions above with a few modifications:

Email these instructions: We are going to have an Emotions Scavenger Hunt during our next virtual class. Your job is to act out the feeling that you are given. When you see someone in the class showing that feeling mark it on your Scavenger Hunt Worksheet. You must try to exhibit your emotion without disrupting whatever is going on in class at the moment. At the end of class we will talk about what everyone observed and see who recognized the most feelings.
In your email assign a feeling to each student and attach a copy of the scavenger hunt pdf.

Instructions for an outdoor Feelings and Emotions Scavenger Hunt:

Choose a good place to observe a variety of people. Make sure that it is not too busy or active as that may be overwhelming.
See who can find someone that matches the emotions on the worksheet and cross them all off first.
Ask the child why that person may feel that way.
Ask the child when they may have felt that way.
Act out the emotions.
I like to extend the game by coming up with a fictional history that would fit with our observations. Maybe that older woman talking to a younger man is visiting her son. She just came back from a trip and she is telling him all about her travels. Or those two giggling teenagers are happy because they just became members of a super-hero club. You can be as silly or elaborate as you want.
You can play in teams. Pair up groups of kids. Send them out on their scavenger hunt and then compare the observations that were made.

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Finding the Positives by Going on an Emotional Scavenger Hunt

Since many of us are spending a little more time with our partners, children, or other family members because of COVID-19 precautions, our emotions may be bumping into one another more than usual. Tensions can run high in close quarters, and it might be really hard to see our family members in a positive light at times.

All those little things that might have annoyed us or might not have even been noticeable are now gnawing away our tolerance and patience. Those major things that blatantly bothered us can’t be ignored by spending hours and hours away from the house.

Scavenger hunts have been a great way for families to be entertained and engaged with parks, restaurants, and so many other things closed or limited.

Here’s a new version: the “Being Seen” Scavenger Hunt.

This is a sort of secret game to play with whomever is home; your children, partner, parents, siblings, cousins, etc. There are 3 steps.

1. Throughout the day, make a note of whenever you notice someone showing courage, kindness, fortitude, trust, flexibility, resilience, self-compassion, generosity, or thoughtfulness.
2. Write down what specific action or interaction made you notice this on a piece of paper, fold it up, and place it in a jar, shoe box, envelope, or some other container.
3. At the end of the day, gather together and read the notes aloud.

If our focus is on negativity (the things that are “wrong”, the things that bother us, the things we don’t like), that negativity is all we see. This generally isn’t an accurate representation of a person or a relationship and it short-changes everyone involved. Behaviors and qualities are also fostered or diminished by the attention and response they get.

If you’d like your child to be more resilient or your spouse to be more attentive, giving them concrete examples of how they currently do that lays a foundation for more of that to be built upon.

From a behavioral perspective, not knowing when something is going to be reinforced creates a stronger drive to do that behavior.

For example, if you want your kids to get along rather than constantly arguing, you could surprise them by writing down “I noticed when you wanted to play different video games at the same time, you came up with a plan to play one game first and another game after instead of yelling. ”

Or “I saw you give the controller to your brother so he could go first.”

Here are few other examples for the whole family:

“I saw you be calm and flexible when we had to change our plans at the last minute.”
“I saw your thoughtfulness when you took the kids outside so I could have some time alone.”
“I saw you show kindness to your sister when you read her a story.”
“I saw you show trust that your dad could fix your bike when the pedal broke.”

Keeping an eye out for positive traits reminds us that the people we are close to are noteworthy, and it also reminds us to exhibit these qualities whenever we can.

Sharing what we noticed at the end of the day sends the message that “I see you” and adds an element of loving surprise that motivates us to keep seeing and keep being seen.

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Procedure for receiving and considering applications

All appeals are received by the department for working with citizens' appeals of the organizational and control committee of the administration of the city of Barnaul and are considered in accordance with the Federal Law of May 2, 2006 No. 59-FZ "On the procedure for considering appeals from citizens of the Russian Federation" , by the law of the Altai Territory dated December 29, 2006 No. 152-ЗС "On consideration of applications of citizens of the Russian Federation in the territory of the Altai Territory", by the resolution of the administration of the city of Barnaul dated August 21, 2013 No. 2875 "On approval of the procedure for conducting office work on applications from citizens, associations of citizens, including legal entities, organization of their consideration in the city administration, city administration bodies, other local government bodies, municipal institutions, enterprises.

Reception of written applications from citizens, associations of citizens, including legal entities, is accepted at the address: 656043, Barnaul, Gogol St., 48, room 114 .

Schedule for receiving documents: Monday - Thursday from 08.00 to 17.00 , Friday from 08.00 to 16.00 , break from 11. 30 to 12.18. When receiving documents, 90,005 checks of 90,006 points are carried out, provided for in Article 7 of the Federal Law of 02.05.2006 No. 59-FZ “On the Procedure for Considering Appeals from Citizens of the Russian Federation”:

1. A citizen in his written application must indicate either the name of the state body or local self-government body to which he sends a written application, or the last name, first name, patronymic of the relevant official, or the position of the corresponding person, as well as his last name, first name, patronymic ( the last one, if any), the postal address to which the response should be sent, the notice of redirection of the appeal, sets out the essence of the proposal, application or complaint, puts a personal signature and date.

2. If necessary, in support of his arguments, the citizen shall attach documents and materials or their copies to the written application.

3. An appeal received by a state body, local government body or official in the form of an electronic document is subject to consideration in the manner established by this Federal Law.

In the appeal, the citizen must indicate his last name, first name, patronymic (the last one, if any), email address. A citizen has the right to attach the necessary documents to such an appeal.

In accordance with Article 12 of the Federal Law of May 2, 2006 No. 59-FZ, a written appeal received by a state body, local government body or official is considered within 30 days from the date of its registration .

The response to an electronic appeal is sent in the form of an electronic document to the e-mail address indicated in the appeal, or in writing to the postal address indicated in the appeal.

The results of work with citizens' appeals in the administration of the city of Barnaul are posted on the website of the organizational and control committee.

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