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Age range: 3-6

Theme Area: Feeling Empathy

Related Episode: The Big Sleepover

Subjects/Skills: Emotional Development; Social Skills

Materials Needed:
Paper
Marker
Scissors

Directions:
Invite your child to play a game called "In Your Dragon Shoes" with you. Beforehand, cut seven shoe shapes out of construction paper. On five of the shoes, write one of the following situations:

Cassie has to sleep at her friends' house.
Max has to go to a new school for the first time.
Ord has to go into a dark cave.
Emmy loses her friends in a Knuckerhole.
Ord meets a beetle.

To play the game, place the cards down on the table. Let your child go first. Have him choose a card. Then, read the words aloud to him. Say, "Now it's your turn to get into Cassie's dragon shoes. How would you feel if you were Cassie? What would make you feel better? What could your friends do to help you?"

Take a turn choosing a card. Tell your child how you would feel if you were in the dragon's shoes. Discuss what you might do to overcome your fear in the same situation.

When you're finished, take out the two blank cards. On one, write the thing that you are most afraid of. Help your child write about one of his fears on the other. Then swap cards.

Talk about how you would feel if you were in your child's shoes. Then have your child tell how he would feel if he had to face your fear.

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