Balloon feelings

Purpose
A lively game to get siblings running around as well as talking about their feelings about home situations

You will need

• A balloon for each sibling

• Sticky labels with different feelings written on them – one for each balloon e.g. Angry, happy, jealous, proud, sad, lonely, excited, frightened,

• Dance music and plenty of space.

How to do it

Introduce the activity by asking the siblings if they think that we all have different feelings at different times – Ask them to name some of the feelings that siblings can have about their brother or sister. Ask for some nice feelings, and some 'not so nice' feelings. Tell them that these are normal feelings that all brothers and sisters have at different times.

Ask each sibling to stick a label on a balloon and stand in the middle of the room. Tell them that when the music starts playing the group must work together to keep all the balloons in the air at the same time, and when the music stops each person catches a balloon.

Then ask one of them to read the label on his/her balloon and to think of a time when he or she has felt that way. For example a child may say he felt happy on his birthday, or sad when her sister was in hospital.

Play the music again and repeat until each child has a turn (or after several turns if the group is large).

 

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