FREE Emotions Matching | Autism Activity

Free emotions cut and paste activity using real photos designed for autism, special education, and speech therapy to teach emotion recognition skills.

This free emotions matching activity helps students recognize and understand feelings using realistic photos. It is designed for autism classrooms, speech therapy sessions, and special education settings.

Students look at a large emotion picture and then cut and paste matching images that show the same feeling. The activity encourages visual recognition of facial expressions while supporting fine motor skills and social emotional learning (SEL).

The clear layout and simple instructions make it ideal for young learners, autistic students, and children who benefit from visual supports and hands-on activities.

How the Activity Works
Students look at the large emotion picture.
Identify the feeling shown.
Cut the smaller images from the cut page.
Find the pictures that show the same emotion.
Paste them in the boxes.

This activity helps develop:
• Emotion recognition
• Social emotional learning (SEL)
• Matching and categorization
• Visual discrimination
• Fine motor skills

Emotions Included
Happy
Angry
Silly

What’s Included
• 3 emotion matching worksheets
• Realistic emotion photos
• Cut and paste activity
• Simple printable format
• US Letter PDF pages

The file is designed using a CMYK colour profile at 300 DPI resolution for high-quality printing.

Ideal For

• Autism classrooms
• Special education programs
• Speech therapy sessions
• Social emotional learning lessons
• Independent work stations
• Early childhood education

This free sample allows teachers to try the activity format before using the *full version with more emotions and activities.*