Stick Man Emotions Worksheet: Happy, Sad, Angry & Surprised!
Matching simple stick-figure faces to emotion words helps children ages 3-5 build an early emotional vocabulary, connecting facial cues like a curved mouth or raised eyebrows to specific feeling words. This kind of emotion recognition is a foundational social-emotional skill, helping children name what they and others are feeling instead of just reacting.
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Curriculum
- SEL - Self-Awareness > Emotions & Feelings
How to use this worksheet
Look at each stick man face on the page together and talk about what you notice — is the mouth turned up or down, are the eyebrows raised? Say each emotion word aloud — happy, sad, angry, surprised — and have your child match it to the face that shows that feeling. Once matched, let your child color each face, choosing colors that feel right for that emotion if they'd like. Finish by asking your child to make that same face themselves in a mirror.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- 1Take turns acting out happy, sad, angry, and surprised faces and guessing which emotion the other person is showing.
- 2Draw a new stick figure face for an emotion not covered on the worksheet, like scared or excited.
- 3Read a picture book together and pause to identify what emotion a character might be feeling and why.
- 4Make a simple 'feelings chart' to hang at home where your child can point to how they're feeling each day.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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