Faces show feelings! A smile means happy, a frown means sad, and wide eyes mean surprised. You can draw, paint, or build faces that show different feelings. Making faces in art helps you think about emotions and how people feel.
Look in a mirror and make different faces (happy, sad, angry, surprised, silly). Draw those faces on paper. Use paper plates to make face masks. Build faces from collage materials. Read picture books and talk about how characters' faces show their feelings. Play an emotion guessing game with drawn faces.
Faces are one of the most important things humans look at. Even as a baby, you learned to look at faces to understand how people feel. A smile means someone is happy. A frown means someone is sad. Raised eyebrows mean someone is surprised. We read faces every day!
You can make faces in your art to show feelings. Start with a circle for the head. Add two dots for eyes. Then draw a mouth. If the mouth curves up, the face looks happy. If it curves down, the face looks sad. If the mouth is a big open circle, the face looks surprised. Just those tiny changes make the face show a completely different feeling!
Eyes and eyebrows help show feelings too. Draw eyebrows that go up in the middle for a worried face. Draw eyebrows that go down in the middle for an angry face. Make the eyes wide open for surprise or half-closed for sleepy. You can even add tears for crying or rosy circles on the cheeks for blushing.
Making faces in art helps you understand feelings, yours and other people's. When you draw an angry face, you think about what anger looks like. When you draw a scared face, you think about what fear looks like. This helps you notice and name feelings in real life too. Art is a wonderful way to explore the big world of emotions, and every feeling is welcome in your art!
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