GAME INSTRUCTIONS
What is the goal of the game?
The Selfie Stickers game challenges players to create humorous character scenes and expressive faces on photographs using a simplified design tool. To play, you must choose a pre-loaded image or upload a photo directly from your computer and drag-and-drop categorized stickers including eyes, mouths, hair, hats, reaction bubbles, and frames. The goal is to resize, rotate, arrange graphic layers, and print or download your final custom sticker creation.Recommended age and educational level
This game is recommended for children aged 4 to 5 and up, making it suitable for Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary, and Middle School Education. This starting age is justified because players utilize basic visual-motor coordination, facial feature recognition, and creative expression. It serves as a versatile tool for independent student play, as well as for art teachers, counselors, parents, and occupational therapists targeting social-emotional learning, emotion recognition, and digital literacy. Players require no prior computer expertise.How to play: single-player or multiplayer
The standard format is single-player mode, fostering individual creative expression, personal mood representation, and self-paced digital skill-building. However, it easily converts into a collaborative classroom activity where pairs of students evaluate peer creations, guess the emotional state of decorated characters, or co-design story avatars.What do you learn from this game? Learning objectives and skills
This interactive design activity reinforces art, educational technology, and social-emotional competencies:- Digital Literacy and Graphic Design: Understanding basic image editing concepts including layer order, resizing, rotating, file uploading, downloading, and printing.
- Social-Emotional Learning (SEL): Recognizing and expressing facial cues related to feelings such as happiness, anger, or surprise.
- Visual Arts and Spatial Composition: Combining color frames, prop accessories, and background focus elements effectively.
- Visual-Motor Skills: Developing fine motor accuracy through click-and-drag sticker positioning.
Tips to get the most out of this game
Challenge students to design a character illustrating a specific mood and ask classmates to guess the emotion based solely on the facial feature combination. For an unplugged offline activity, print out blank portrait outlines or personal photos and provide magazine cutouts of eyes, noses, mouths, and hats for students to assemble physical emotion collages on paper using glue.Video