Draw the Face to Match the Feeling | Identify Emotions Worksheet | Gr 1-3

This no-prep SEL worksheet helps students identify emotions, recognize facial expressions, and build empathy by exploring how different feelings are expressed through facial features.

Students read the feeling word under each face and draw the eyes, eyebrows, mouth, and other details to match the emotion. This engaging activity encourages emotional awareness, perspective-taking, and meaningful conversations about feelings.

✅ SEL Focus: Self-Awareness & Social Awareness

What’s Included:


📄 1 printable PDF worksheet (8.5 × 11 in.)


✏️ Draw the Face to Match the Feeling activity


🖨️ Permission to photocopy for single classroom, counselling, therapeutic, or home use

How to Use:


✔ SEL and life skills lessons


✔ Morning work or bell ringers


✔ School counselling activities


✔ Small-group discussions


✔ Independent practice


✔ No-prep print-and-go classroom activities

Perfect For:


🏫 Grades 1–3


💙 School counsellors


🧠 Social-emotional learning lessons


🏡 Homeschool families


👥 Emotional awareness and empathy activities

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