Emotions Bingo Game for Early Elementary Students

Looking for a fun and interactive way to help your students recognize and understand different feelings? This Emotions Bingo game is the perfect addition to your social-emotional learning toolkit! Designed for early elementary and primary school students, this game makes identifying emotions engaging and accessible through playful visuals and group participation.

Emotion Bingo for SEL and Classroom Fun

This printable Emotion Bingo game is a great way to spark discussion and build emotional vocabulary in younger learners. 

Each bingo board features a variety of photographs of children showing common facial expressions. To play, the teacher simply calls out an emotion, and students search their boards for a matching image. It’s an easy, no-prep activity that supports both individual reflection and whole-class learning.

Download Your Emotional Bingo Game

Use this emotional bingo game to reinforce feelings recognition and expression in your classroom. It is available in both editable Google Slides and printable PDF formats. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and download your preferred file type.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.

Resources to Pair With Your Emotions Bingo Game

This Emotions Bingo Game is a great starting activity for social emotional learning. We recommend pairing it with these resources to really kick off your SEL curriculum this year!

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Identifying Emotions Interactive Activity

Help your students identify and explore common emotions with this engaging digital activity.

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Managing Big Emotions Anchor Charts

Help students manage emotions such as anger, fear, worry, sadness and happiness with this colorful set of anchor charts for your elementary school classroom.

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Recognizing Feelings - Flashcards

Improve your students' emotional literacy with this set of feelings flashcards.