Showing Feelings With Your Body and Face
How We Express Ourselves · Notice how faces and bodies share feelings in drama.
Name: ____________
Date: __________
🎬 First, watch Are there universal expressions of emotion? (TED-Ed)
🙌 Then try: Freeze-Frame Feelings — Have someone call out a feeling and freeze your whole body and face to show it. Swap roles and guess each other's feeling with no words.
- Draw a happy face and a scared face, labelling the eyes and mouth.
- Write what your hands and shoulders do when you feel excited.
- Match the feeling to the action: tired/yawn-and-slump, angry/stomp-and-frown.
- Act out one feeling and write down what someone guessed.
💭 Think about it
How can your body tell a story even when your mouth stays quiet?
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