Label Emotions Worksheet – Faces to Name and Print

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Six basic emotions 6

Happy The corners of the mouth pull back and up. The cheeks lift, so a small fold shows under each eye.
Sad The inner ends of the brows lift. The corners of the mouth pull down, and the eyes look down.
Angry The brows pull down and together. The eyes narrow and the lips press tight.
Scared The brows lift and pull together. The eyes open wide, and the mouth opens and stretches sideways.
Surprised The brows lift high and the eyes open wide. The mouth drops open in an O.
Disgusted The nose wrinkles and the upper lip lifts. The eyes narrow, and on this face the tongue is out.

Two more feelings 2

Tired The upper eyelids hang halfway down. The brows and the mouth are slack.
Worried The brows tilt up in the middle. The eyes look to one side, and the mouth is a wavy line.

How this list was compiled: The six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise): Wikipedia, Emotion classification, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_classification, read 2026-10-02; checked against the Universal Emotions page of the research group of the psychologist who proposed the list, https://www.paulekman.com/universal-emotions/, read 2026-10-02, which gives the six as anger, surprise, disgust, enjoyment, fear, sadness (enjoyment where the other texts write happiness) and adds contempt as a seventh; and against the abstract of M. Li and others, A validated Mandarin Chinese Auditory Emotion Database of Subject-Personal-Pronoun Sentences, Scientific Data, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-06976-z, read 2026-10-02 in its Europe PMC record (https://europepmc.org/article/MED/41786802), which lists "six basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise". What the face does in each of the six: Wikipedia, Facial Action Coding System (the table of emotions and action units: cheek raiser and lip corner puller; inner brow raiser, brow lowerer and lip corner depressor; brow raisers, upper lid raiser and jaw drop; the same with lip stretcher; brow lowerer, lid tightener and lip tightener; nose wrinkler), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System, read 2026-10-02; checked against Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872, public domain), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1227, read 2026-10-02 (the inner ends of the eyebrows raised and the corners of the mouth drawn down in grief; the eyes and mouth widely opened and the eyebrows raised in surprise and in fear; the mouth closed with firmness in rage; the upper lip retracted, which wrinkles the sides of the nose, in disgust; the mouth drawn back at the corners in good spirits). The words tired, worried and scared: Cambridge Dictionary, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tired (and /worried, /scared), and Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/tired (and /worried, /scared), read 2026-10-02. The faces and all wording are our own. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-02 from plain circles, ellipses and curves: own work, nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

This label emotions worksheet shows one face drawn eight ways, each with a number and a line for the feeling word. Print it, or name each face on screen.

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Print the sheet

Press Print this worksheet for the numbered faces, with a line for each word. The switch beside the faces changes the sheet to Blank or Named.

Read the brows, the eyes and the mouth

Every face has the same head. Mostly the brows, the eyes and the mouth change, so those are the places to look: a mouth that curves up or down, brows that lift or pull together, eyes wide or half closed.

Check the answers

Print the answer key lists each word beside its number. Quiz yourself on this worksheet lights one face at a time and offers four words.

Scared and surprised both have wide eyes. Look at the mouth: surprised is a round O.

Questions and answers

Which emotions are on the worksheet?

Eight: happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised, disgusted, tired and worried. The first six are the ones often called the six basic emotions.

What are the six basic emotions?

Happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise and disgust. On this sheet they are written the way a child says them: happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised and disgusted.

How can you tell a sad face from a worried face?

On both, the brows lift in the middle. The sad mouth curves down and the eyes look down. The worried mouth is a wavy line and the eyes look to one side.

Does the quiz take other words, such as afraid or mad?

Yes, when you type the answer. Afraid and frightened count for scared, mad for angry, sleepy for tired and anxious for worried.