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These drawings were made by Kindergarten and First grade students. They were given a set of line drawings that I made by observing photographs in a book on body language. Before the children drew, we sat together and looked at my drawings, discussing which emotions were expressed, and what happens to the face when it expresses each emotion. We acted out the emotions of happiness, sadness, fear, surprise, anger, and disgust, one by one. With each emotion we observed what happens to the eyebrows, eyes, nose, cheeks, and mouth. We also discussed what shapes were to be found on the human face, such as ovals (the whole face), "pointy ovals" (or lemon shapes-the eyes), circles (the iris and pupils), parenthesis (the sides of the nostrils), "v" shapes (the area between the nosrils), etc.
The children then went to their tables and drew by observing the line drawings I had made. They used markers; it was not necessary for them to draft and re-draft the drawings.
This was a 60-minute class period.
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