Funny Faces with Flip Books

The students create flip books in which eyes, eyebrows, noses, ears, mouths, teeth, and tongues get all mixed up to produce some very funny faces.

1. Distribute two copies of the head outline to each student. They will each have 4 face outlines. Tell them that they are going to use their imagination to draw different faces.

2. Point to the horizontal lines and explain that these lines are the secret to making the faces really funny. Demonstrate how they should place the hair, the eyebrows, and the eyes above the top line, the ears and the nose centered in the middle line, and the mouth, the teeth, and the tongue below the bottom line.

3. Encourage the students to add anything else they wish to the picture, such
as wild hair or a silly hat.

4. After they finish their drawings, have them carefully cut along the horizontal lines.

5. Next, staple the 4 face outlines for each student and make a cover for the book.

6. The students can sit in pairs or groups of three to flip their books and describe their funny faces.

Students practice saying: He has short straight brown hair. He has green eyes. He has a long tongue. He has a small nose.

Here are their projects:

Alternatively, you may have the students find large photos of people in magazines, staple the pages together, and cut below the eyes and above the mouths.