Avantika’s latest venture is a card game inspired by her personal experience of emotional learning - CHECK IN is a card game that enables kids and adults to talk about feelings and deal with them. The cards are available in English and Marathi. It makes a pointed and organised effort towards Social Emotional Learning, for children ages 5 and over. It has a three-pronged approach to identifying feelings, being able to name the feeling and lastly being able to come up with ways to engage and deal with that feeling. With these cards, Avantika envisions ensuring that communication, conversation and self-awareness about one’s feelings are encouraged from a young age thus developing emotional and social skills at an early stage.
CHECK IN introduces emotions to kids through 8 characters associated with 8 colours named Angry Akhil, Scared Sarika, Tired Tarun, Happy Harshita, Sad Simran, Excited Ester, Frustrated Freddy and Silly Milly. The pack of cards include 28 cards of What Makes Me, these cards help express what evokes a particular emotion. 28 cards of What I Can Do, these cards enable the child to identify how to tackle feelings, each of these allows the players to score 5 points when they answer. The last set of cards is 20 Silly Time cards that encourage players to let off some energy on silly activities. Each Silly Time activity gives a bonus of ten points to the player. This reinforces the fact that sometimes the best memories in life are made when we are being silly!
Angry Akhil
Scared Sarika
Tired Tarun
Happy Harshita
Sad Simran
Frustrated Freddy
Silly Milly
Excited Ester
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