About the Emotions & Feelings Sequence Memory Game
Happy, sad, giggly or grumpy — learning to name feelings is one of the most important skills a small person can build. This deck doubles as a brilliant conversation starter for parents, teachers and therapists.
What's on the Emotions & Feelings pad
The tiles the sequence is drawn from — 12 in all: 😊 Happy😢 Sad😠 Angry😲 Surprised😨 Scared😴 Sleepy🤣 Giggly😌 Calm🥰 Loved🤔 Curious😎 Confident🤗 Cuddly
Study tip: give the first three tiles — happy, sad and angry — fixed positions in your head ("top-left", "middle", "bottom-right"). Sequence memory is about position as much as pictures.
How to memorise a learning deck
Learning decks — letters, numbers, colours — are the ones to play with your voice. Say each item out loud as you study the board: the label, not just the symbol. Spoken repetition loads both the visual and the phonological memory systems at once, which is exactly the double-encoding classroom practice relies on.
Test recall by naming, not just matching. After the board hides, ask "which letter was next to the butterfly?" — questions like that force retrieval, and retrieval is what turns a quick game into actual learning. Matching alone can be done on autopilot; naming cannot.
How to Play
- Press Start and watch the tiles light up in order.
- When the sequence finishes, tap the same tiles in the same order.
- Each round adds one more step to the sequence.
- One wrong tap ends the run — your best round is your score.
Fun Facts About Emotions & Feelings
- People all over the world recognise the same basic facial expressions, whatever language they speak.
- Naming a feeling out loud actually helps your brain calm it down.
- Laughter really is contagious — your brain primes your face to smile when you hear it.
- Goosebumps are an emotional response left over from when our ancestors had much more hair.
Learning deck questions
Can these decks help with reading and counting?
As practice, yes — matching uppercase to pictures and saying letter names and numbers aloud reinforces what phonics and counting lessons teach. They are a supplement to teaching, not a replacement for it.
Which board should a five-year-old start on?
Easy — six pairs. The win rate matters more than the challenge at this stage: a child who beats the easy board three times will march to medium on their own, and one who loses hard boards twice will not.