Match emotions with real photo tasks designed for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), special education, speech and language, and social skills instruction.

This resource helps students practise emotion recognition using realistic child photographs and structured matching activities. Students match coloured emotion photo pieces to grayscale matching boards while building feelings vocabulary, visual discrimination, and social-emotional awareness.

What Is Included

This resource includes:

• 12 emotion matching activities
• 12 grayscale matching boards
• 12 coloured cut-out pages
• 9 matching pieces per activity
• Realistic child photo visuals
• Dashed cutting lines
• Printable PDF format

Emotions Included

• Excited
• Proud
• Calm
• Confused
• Frustrated
• Embarrassed
• Shy
• Disappointed
• Bored
• Tired
• Silly
• Focused

Who This Resource Is For

This resource is suitable for:

• Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Special education learners
• Speech and language therapy students
• Early years and primary learners
• Visual learners
• Students developing social skills
• Students working on emotion recognition and feelings vocabulary

How Teachers Can Use It

Teachers and therapists can use these activities in:

• Independent work stations
• File folder activities
• Task boxes
• Small-group instruction
• Speech and language sessions
• Social-emotional learning lessons
• Intervention groups
• Early years classrooms

Students match each coloured emotion photo to the corresponding grayscale image on the board. The activity can also be used to encourage discussion about facial expressions, feelings, and emotional responses.

Skills Targeted

This resource supports:

• Emotion recognition
• Feelings vocabulary
• Facial expression identification
• Visual discrimination
• Matching skills
• Receptive language
• Expressive language
• Social-emotional awareness
• Independent work skills

Why This Resource Is Helpful

The clear and predictable matching format helps students focus on one emotion at a time. Realistic child photographs provide meaningful visual support and help students connect emotion words with facial expressions.

The activities are easy to prepare, reusable when laminated, and suitable for classroom, therapy, and home learning use.

File Format

• Printable PDF
• US Letter format
• CMYK colour mode for high-quality printing
• Suitable for laminating and repeated use