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Lesson 2: Drawing expressions (Original scheme)

Looking at emojis, children consider emotions and learn how making slight changes to the eyes, mouth and eyebrows significantly alters an expression ***new pupil video***

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Before the lesson

Learning objective

To draw faces that express different emotions

National curriculum

Pupils should be taught to:

To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination

Success criteria

Cross-curricular links

Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: If children find this hard, the basic cartoon shapes for the face (outline, nose, circles for eyes) could be drawn initially to give them a starting point to add their own lines too.

Pupils working at greater depth: Once children have tried a range of expressions, they could continue to add the rest of the head and the hair to create their own characters. They might use characters from the source material to get some ideas.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

In this unit

Created by:

Simon Chubb,

Art and Design specialist

Simon is a teacher, cartoonist and artist. He uses his 25 years of experience to teach art in schools and has his own workshop business ‘Scartoons’ in which children create comic characters and strips. Simon is a member of The…

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