Draw the Emotion Faces – SEL Drawing Worksheet

Invite students to show what different emotions might look like. A drawing worksheet pairs emotion words with spaces for creating facial expressions.
Grades
Not Grade Specific
Pages
1
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Jan 08, 2024

Subject
Special Resources, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Education Needs (SEN)
Topic
Emotions, Facial Expressions
Resource types
Drawing Templates & Outlines, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation
Print ready

Product description

From the author

This Draw Emotion Faces Worksheet provides nine blank face outlines labeled happy, sad, angry, surprised, excited, shy, worried, frustrated and scared.

Invite students to draw possible expressions and discuss situations associated with the feelings. Accept variation rather than treating one expression as the only correct response.

The two-page PDF contains one worksheet and credits. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clipart.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify nine distinct emotions by name and represent each with an appropriate facial expression

Teaching tips

  • Use as a quick SEL warm-up or morning check-in activity, since the format covers nine emotions on a single page.

  • Pair with a discussion of situations that might cause each emotion, since the page names the feeling but does not provide context or a scenario.

  • Accept different drawings and discuss context: people can show the same feeling in different ways, and a face alone does not prove what someone feels.

Skills covered

  • Emotion-to-expression mapping — students draw a facial expression that matches a given emotion word across nine distinct feelings.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Emotions

  • Facial expressions

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