Grades K–3
Feelings Charades Cards
Cut out the cards. Act out the feeling with your face and body while the class guesses.
Drama worksheet · Feelings and faces
Draw the Feeling Faces
Draw a face for each feeling, then make that face yourself.
- Grade level
- Grades K–2
- Time
- About 15 minutes
- Topic
- Feelings and faces
- Answer key
- Not needed: answers vary
- Kids practice
- Naming feelings, Showing feelings with the face and body, Sizing feelings from small to big, Finding clues to a character’s feelings
What kids do
Printed on the sheet:
- Draw a face for each feeling. Then make that face yourself, and show a partner!
Words on this sheet
HappySadAngryScaredSilly
Teacher tip
Have kids make each face with a partner before they draw it. Partners can check: are the eyebrows up for surprised and down for angry?
How to use it
- Talk about a time a book character felt that way.
- Keep it safe: kids act out pretend feelings, not their own private ones.
- Read the box at the top of the sheet together, then try the first item out loud as a class.
Watch for
Every feeling played at full size. Practice small and medium too.
Talk about it
- What clues told you how the character felt?
- How did the audience know how your character felt?
Take it further
Pause a read-aloud and ask kids to show the character’s face.
US Letter, prints well in black and white. Free for home and classroom use: print as many copies as you need.
More feelings and faces worksheets
Grades 1–4
Say the Line with Feeling
Read the stage direction and the line. Circle the feeling that fits, then say the line that way.
Grades 2–5
Small, Medium and Big Feelings
Put each set of feeling words in order from smallest to biggest.
Grades 2–5
How Does the Character Feel?
Read each short scene. Write how the character feels and the clue that tells you.
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