---
title: Create Emotion Characters
description: Students will create a comic depicting a variety of emotions.
image: https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/create_emotion_characters-001.png
---

**Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)**

**Lesson Length: 40 mins - 1 hour**

**Topic: Emotions**

**Grade Level: 4, 5**

**Standards / Framework: **

- [CASEL: SELF-AWARENESS](https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/#interactive-casel-wheel)

**Brief Description:**  Students will create a comic depicting a variety of emotions.

**Know Before You Start:** Students should be able to label emotions, body language and expressions.

**Hook:**

- Have students stand up and use their bodies, facial expression, and voices to act out different emotions. What does excitement look like? Anger? Confusion?
- Review how we know when someone is feeling a certain way. 
    - We read body language.
    - We look at facial expressions.
    - We listen to the voice tone and words they choose to express themselves.
- Review how we know what **we** are feeling? 
    - We can feel what our bodies are physically experiencing.
    - We can listen to the words and tone we are using to express ourselves. How do we speak when we are angry? Excited?

**Activity:**

- Read and discuss the sample comic.
- Have students create an emotion comic. Each panel should include:   
    - a character expressing a specific emotion.
    - a caption listing the emotion and dialogue.
      
       

**Closure:**

- Share and discuss student comics. Are there any similarities? Differences?
- How do these differences relate to how each of us expresses our emotions?
- Display and categorize comics by emotion. For example, all “frustrated” comics are displayed together.

**Differentiation:**

- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Preteach vocabulary.
- Provide visuals of different emotions with labels.
- Allow students to work with a peer model.
- Provide sentence starters as needed.
- As students create, discuss color as it relates to emotion. 
    - Does yellow make you think of happiness?
    - Does blue make you feel low?
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

**Resources:**

- Comic to print or display: [Comic](https://share.pixton.com/q5ks9qe).
- Showing a short clip of “Inside Out” from Disney’s Pixar and discussing how the artists showed each emotion through color, dialogue, and physical/body language?

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[![](https://ideas.pixton.com/hubfs/how_are_you_feeling_-001-2.png)](https://ideas.pixton.com/how-are-you-feeling)

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