Activity goals:

1. Cognitive goals: Understand the relationship between facial features and expressions, and use the method of adding pictures to draw expressions that match the taste of food.

2. Ability goal: Be able to observe changes in people’s taste from subtle changes in facial features, boldly imagine and create personalized expressions.

3. Emotional Goal: Experience the happiness brought by creative art activities.

Activity preparation:

Experience preparation: Children have the experience of tasting foods with sour, sweet, bitter and spicy tastes.

Material preparations: two small boxes per table (to hold food pictures and small animals), four portions of sweet and bitter food, a PPT with sweet and bitter expressions, several small pictures of sweet and bitter food, and one operating paper and brush for each person.

Activity process:

1. Introduction link---situation introduction

Teacher: (showing Peppa Pig) Come and see who is with today Have we met? Page has recently learned how to cook delicious food and is planning to invite her good friends to have a try. Are you her good friends?

2. Expansion session

(1) Taste various flavors of food and feel various tastes and expressions

Teacher: Teacher, there are some special flavors here Invite the children to come up and have a taste of the food, and watch their expressions carefully.

Guide children to perceive the relationship between eyebrows, eyes, mouth and expressions, and make various expressions.

(2) Appreciate and perceive the fun of different expressions brought about by different tastes

Teacher: Peppa’s animal friends also ate delicious food, and they also showed different expressions. You Guess what kind of food they might have eaten? Why?

Invite children to learn various expressions and observe the changes in eyebrows, eyes, and mouths caused by different tastes.

(3) Operation link---choose food pictures, creatively design expressions that match the food taste

Teacher: The little animals tasted Peppa Pig’s food all over. With different expressions, please choose a food picture to hide under the small animal, think about his expression after eating this food, and finally design an interesting expression for the small animal.

Play music, children create, and teachers guide on tour. Guide individual children who have difficulty in creating and encourage children to design a variety of creative expressions.

3. Ending session - appreciating and sharing partner's works

Appreciate each other's partner's works, guess the food they may taste based on the designed expressions, and finally reveal the food hidden under the animals Pictures for verification.

4. Extension link