happy faces
Goal 5: Make connections between their emotions, facial expressions, body language, and behavior.
Materials: Paper plates with tongue depressor handles attached to them, yarn for hair, markers, crayons, glue, construction paper, facial features cut out of magazines (be sure to use magazines with pictures of many different races of children and adults)
Procedure: In the art center, spread out materials. Help the children use the materials to make puppets with happy faces, providing suggestions but not giving them a model to copy. Encourage them to talk about how they feel inside when they are wearing a happy face or how they feel when someone else looks at them with a happy face.
To Simplify: With extremely young children, provide prepared puppets and encourage them to discuss feelings that go along with happy faces.
To Extend: Have older children write and stage a puppet show about an especially joyous situation. Extend children's ability to identify body language expressions of happiness. Have them hold the stick puppets in front of their faces as they march up and down, repeating this chant in happy voices (to the tune, "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush"):
This is my happy face, happy face, happy face.
This is my happy face being worn at school today.
This is my happy march, happy march, happy march.
This is my happy march taking place at school today.
Materials: Paper plates with tongue depressor handles attached to them, yarn for hair, markers, crayons, glue, construction paper, facial features cut out of magazines (be sure to use magazines with pictures of many different races of children and adults)
Procedure: In the art center, spread out materials. Help the children use the materials to make puppets with happy faces, providing suggestions but not giving them a model to copy. Encourage them to talk about how they feel inside when they are wearing a happy face or how they feel when someone else looks at them with a happy face.
To Simplify: With extremely young children, provide prepared puppets and encourage them to discuss feelings that go along with happy faces.
To Extend: Have older children write and stage a puppet show about an especially joyous situation. Extend children's ability to identify body language expressions of happiness. Have them hold the stick puppets in front of their faces as they march up and down, repeating this chant in happy voices (to the tune, "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush"):
This is my happy face, happy face, happy face.
This is my happy face being worn at school today.
This is my happy march, happy march, happy march.
This is my happy march taking place at school today.
