Emotion Faces Coloring Page with Happy, Sad, Angry and Scared Words

Four big round faces fill this sheet in two rows, with happy and sad on top and angry and scared underneath. Every face has its word printed below it in rounded hollow letters, so a child colors the word along with the face. The faces have eyebrows, eyes and a mouth and nothing else, which keeps each expression easy to read.

This emotion faces coloring page is a free printable for ages 3 to 7. Preschool and kindergarten teachers can use it to introduce four basic feelings, and school counselors can keep a stack ready for a short talk at the start of a session.

How this coloring page was created

For this page, we typed this idea into Colorin AI: "four big round emotion faces in two rows of two, each with its word below it: happy, sad, angry and scared, drawn with thick outlines, with the whole drawing kept above an empty white margin at the bottom of the page". The four faces and their words on this sheet are the drawing that idea produced.

"Each with its word below it" put a label under every face, and the labels read happy, sad, angry and scared in the same order as the idea. "Big round" made every face a full circle with room to color around the features. "Thick outlines" gave the circles, the eyebrows and the mouths one heavy line that a young child can follow with a crayon.

Details of This Emotion Faces Coloring Page

The expressions change mostly in the eyebrows and the mouth. The happy face has arched brows and a wide smile that curls up at both ends. The sad face has brows that slope down toward the outer edges and a mouth that curves down. The angry face has brows that slant into a V and press on the eyes, and the scared face pairs worried brows with the largest eyes on the sheet and a mouth that hangs open.

Because the changes sit mostly in the brows and the mouth, a child can compare the faces side by side and see how the brows and the mouth move from one feeling to the next. The word under each face lets a pre-reader match the face to its written name, and an early reader can sound the word out.

Each circle is a little more than a third of the page wide, and the circles are all the same size. Every eye is an oval with a smaller oval inside it. On the angry face, each brow touches the top of its eye. The brows and the mouths are hollow shapes with a double outline, so they take color too. The words use 19 lowercase letters, five in happy, three in sad, five in angry and six in scared.

Coloring Ideas and Techniques

With a color code, the sheet becomes a reference card for the classroom wall. Try yellow for happy, blue for sad, red for angry and purple for scared, and color each word to match its face.

For a group activity, cut the sheet into four squares along the white gaps and use the squares as cards in a feelings matching game. Older children can add a nose, ears and hair in pencil before coloring, which turns each face into a character with a name.

To add calm, silly or proud to the set, create a face for any feeling your class is learning and print it beside this sheet.

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