Self-Esteem Games to Play
People with positive self esteem do not hesitate to assert their wants and needs while those with low self esteem have diminished feelings of self worth and tend to downplay their needs. Numerous factors can contribute to low self esteem including a history of verbal, physical and emotional abuse. Fortunately, you can buttress fragile self esteem with positive reinforcement. There are games crafted to improve self esteem as participants work to define what constitutes good self esteem and teams explore individual and collective strengths.
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Teens and Adults
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Self Esteem Bingo is ideal for teens or adults and is available on the Impact Publications website. This game explores five areas of self esteem including self esteem deflators, identifying strengths, self esteem boosters, self esteem rewards, and assuming responsibility. Game participants are encouraged to analyze their attitudes and responses while building their self esteem and coping skills.
Everyone
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The Special Candy Game is highlighted on the Recreation Therapy website. Game participants spend five minutes listing their special skills or unique attributes. Players are awarded a piece of candy for each skill they list that is not duplicated by anyone else in the game. For example, if a player lists "being left-handed" and no other player lists that attribute, the left-handed player receives a piece of candy. The purpose of this game is to show that everyone has special attributes, so at the end of the game everyone should have at least one piece of candy.
Stunts are used in the Challenge Game as an introduction to self esteem. This game emphasizes how mastery of a leisure or physical activity improves self worth. Two teams are formed in this game, with each team challenging the other team to perform a stunt. Points are awarded for successful stunt completion.
In the game Just the Way You Are, participants listen to the song "Just The Way You Are" and discuss the lyrics. Then participants write their name on a piece of paper and pass it on. Each player is instructed to write two or three positive attributes of the other game participants. Participants read their positive descriptors aloud and discuss.
Children
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"Self-Esteem Games for Children" is a book tailored for infants and children from birth to eight years of age. The exercises are for building a child's character, capability and self worth. This book includes a CD of children's brain-building music. One of the games, Alligator Pond, asks children to navigate an obstacle course of tossed socks to rescue a beanbag frog. Children can be instructed to hop or skip to increase the game's difficulty.
Dress for Success is a clothing game timed to music where children race to dress themselves before the end of a song. Difficult clothing may be eliminated to help ensure success.
You can play The Match Game as you unload the dryer. In this game, you split pairs of clean socks into two baskets on opposite sides of the room. Children grab a sock from one, race to the other to find its mate, and bring the matched pair back.
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