1. How Many Facial
Expressions Can
Someone Hide?
By: Steph Yetter

2. • Grade Level: 3rd
• Estimated Time: 90 minutes
• Objectives:
• Students will learn about different facial expressions
and how to illustrate them.
• Students will be able to connect to how Snow
White’s stepmother’s happy disguised expression
deceived Snow White and allowed her to believe she
was a good person.
• From this, students will be able to identify strangers
and learn not to trust them based off of how “nice”
they look.

3. 3 rd Grade PA Standard
• 10.3.3.A: Recognize safe/unsafe practices in the home, school and community.
• 10.3.3.B: Recognize emergency situations and explain appropriate responses.
• 10.3.3.C: Recognize conflict situations and identify strategies to avoid or resolve.
• 9.1.3.B: Recognize, know, use and demonstrate a variety of appropriate arts
elements and principles to produce, review and revise original works in the arts.
• Visual Arts: • paint • draw • craft
• 9.1.3.C: Recognize and use fundamental vocabulary within each of the arts
forms.
• 9.1.3.E: Demonstrate the ability to define objects, express emotions, illustrate
an action or relate an experience through creation of works in the arts.

4. Resources
• Yue Minjun (Artist Inspiration) • Facial Expression
• http://www.remediosvaro.biz/yue_min • http://www.kraftykid.com/learn-
jun.html how-to-draw-facial-expressions-
craft-lesson
• Stranger Danger Website
• http://www.free-for- • Color Symbolism
kids.com/stranger-danger.shtml
• http://www.three-
musketeers.net/mike/colors.html
• News Channel WDSU6 –Safety Now Report
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8 • SpongeBob’s Facial Expressions
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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
XoIG2RbaLNc
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Movie
• Stranger Danger Video
• Drawing cartoon facial features overall
website (mouths, eyes, and nose) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
GOe60-0Pgj4
• http://www.drawinghowtodraw.com/
drawing-lessons/drawing-faces-
lessons/index.html

5. Vocabulary
Safety
Disguise
Facial expressions
Lines
Circles
Emotion
Cartoon

6. Guiding Questions
• “What about the old hag made Snow White
thinks he was nice and could trust her?”
• “What was it about her facial expressions?”
• “Did her nice, friendly, and smiling facial
expression help to make Snow White think this
stranger was good?”
• “Have you ever showed an emotion to
someone when you really didn't’t mean it?”

7. Normal Face  Disguise

8. “The Hook”
• SpongeBob’s Facial
Expressions
• http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=XoIG2Rb
aLNc

9. Guided Activity
• After students practice in
their seats with one
another…
• Have students volunteer
to come up in front of the
class to make each one of
the different faces
• While they are up there
point out how each facial
expression has different
shapes of
eyebrows, nose, mouth,
eyes, etc.

10. Example Drawings
(BLUE) (PURPLE) (GRAY)
(RED) (ORANGE) (RED)
(BLACK) (YELLOW) (PINK)

11. Fully Completed Mask!

12. Connecting Safety to
Facial Expressions
• News Channel WDSU6 • Stranger Danger Video
–Safety Now Report • http://www.youtube.c
• http://www.youtube om/watch?v=GOe60-
.com/watch?v=v8o9I 0Pgj4
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ated
• “What does a stranger
look like?”
• “Someone whose face
doesn’t look mean”

13. Rubric

14. Extension
• Have a lesson on a different culture that
creates masks. You could teach the students
the history of the culture and why they have
masks and how they are made. This could
even tie into a time when your school has
Heritage day.