Year 2 I am beautiful: drawing and mixed media worksheet

“Faces seen from the side” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 art unit “I am beautiful: drawing and mixed media”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 1 to 3 of the year, 6 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Faces seen from the side

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Art & design · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can recognise a side profile and say what you can see from the side.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the colours that are primary colours.
redgreenyellowblue
2.
Mix red and yellow. Circle the colour you get.
orangepurplegreenbrown
3.
A circle has how many corners?

B Watch me, then you4 min

Priya looks at a 20p coin. It shows a face from the side.

Watch me

A side profile shows the face from one side only.

From the side you can see one eye and one ear.

Half of the face is hidden on the other side.

Now you

1.
A side profile shows how many ears?
2.
Which view shows half a nose? Circle one.
frontside

C Your turn6 min

Ask a grown-up to sit with you. Look at their face and answer each one.

1.
Your grown-up turns to the side. Which can you see? Circle one.
one eyetwo eyes
2.
Your grown-up turns to the side. Which can you see? Circle one.
one eartwo ears
3.
Your grown-up turns to face you. How many eyes can you see?
4.
Your grown-up turns sideways again. Draw one curvy line for their head. Write one thing you can see from the side.

Say it out loud: What changes when you turn your head from the front to the side?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “A side profile shows two eyes.”

1.
How many eyes can you really see from the side?

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Half of the face is hidden on a coin. Why do you think artists still chose this view? Write your idea.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Faces seen from the side · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. red, yellow, blue Green is mixed from blue and yellow, so it is not a primary colour. Ask your child which colours they cannot make by mixing.

2. orange Purple comes from red and blue. Ask your child to mix the two paints on a paper plate.

3. 0

B

1. 1 Writing 2 means your child counted both ears, as in a front view. Turn side-on to your child and ask them to count your ears.

2. side

C

1. one eye Two eyes means your child is looking at the front. Turn side-on to your child and ask them to count again.

2. one ear Two ears means your child is looking at the front. Turn side-on again and ask your child to point to the one ear they can see.

3. 2

4. Look for: A feature seen from the side, such as one eye, one ear, half a nose or half a mouth, written as a short sentence.

D

1. 1 Writing 2 means your child accepted Kit's claim. Turn side-on to your child and ask them to count your eyes again.

E

1. Look for: A reason why artists chose the side view, such as it being clear, simple or easy to recognise.

Words to use

Say“Look at me from the side. What can you see now? Show me.”

Instead of“Tell them the answer: it is one eye and one ear, so just remember it.”

After the sheet

Take turns: one of you sits side-on while the other draws their side outline in pencil. Then talk about what you could see.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

5 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Finding where the eyes go(with a plan)
Framing a portrait photo(with a plan)
My identity mood board(with a plan)
Printing a Side Face(with a plan)
Layers that stick out(with a plan)

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