Basic Emotion: Matching to Emoji
by ABAmadeSimple © 2026
Price: $0.25 USD
Subjects: sel,speech,specialed,emotionalAndBehavioralSkills,Special Autism,specialExecutiveFunctions,specialAba
Grades: 0
Description
Help learners develop emotion recognition skills with this engaging drag-and-drop matching activity! Students will look at real-life photographs and match each person to the correct emotion emoji. This resource targets four basic emotions: • Happy • Mad • Sad • Tired Each emotion includes 3 different exemplars for a total of 12 real-life images, helping learners generalize emotion recognition across different people and facial expressions. Students simply drag and drop the correct emoji to match the emotion shown in the photograph. Perfect for: • ABA therapy • Speech therapy • Special education • Early childhood classrooms • Social-emotional learning Skills Targeted: • Emotion identification • Matching skills • Visual discrimination • Social-emotional awareness • Generalization across multiple exemplars Features: ✓ Real-life photographs ✓ Simple drag-and-drop format ✓ 3 exemplars per emotion ✓ Interactive and engaging ✓ Great for independent practice or therapist-led instruction This activity provides a fun and effective way for learners to build foundational emotion recognition skills using both real people and familiar emoji representations.