Bear your face
Pitch: Did you know that Sun Bears communicate through facial expressions? Well, this bear is preparing for the annual expressions competition at the fair. Can you help bear practice their expressions.
Concepts: Early development, facial expressions.
Age: 3-6.
Type: Pop up.
Page Count: 21
Working Text:
Oh! You SURPRISED me! Hello, I'm Baxter Bear. You've come just in time! I'm attending the annual Bear Your Face festival but I don't think my faces are very good. Can you help me practice?
I'm pretty EXCITED to go to the festival. It's going to be a lot of fun. Can you show me your 'excited' face?
That was pretty good! But I'm also WORRIED I won't do well in the facial expression competition. How's your 'worried' face.
Oh, that was pretty good too! I'm so HAPPY you are helping me practice. Show me your 'happy' face.
That was a great happy face! But I'm still SCARED to get up on stage with everyone. Can you show me your 'scared' face too?
That was very convincing! With your help I won't need to be scared at all. I don't want to be EMBARRASSED in front of everyone. What face do you make when you're embarrassed?
That's was a great 'embarrassed' face! Making all these faces is making me a bit SLEEPY but I still need to practice more. I hope you're not sleepy yet but let me see your best 'sleepy' face.
Yaaawwwn, oh that was so good but we can't rest yet. I still have a few more to practice. Maybe I need a snack to keep going. I wonder if there's any of mom's honey cakes left but it looks like all there is to snack on is brussel sprouts. I don't like those very much, I actually think they're kind of DISGUSTING blegh! What face do you make when you don't like a food?
Yeah, It definitely looks like you don't like something. If I don't eat my vegetables though my mom might get ANGRY! Can you show me your 'angry' face?
Yikes! That face is scary. Keeping all these different faces straight has me a bit CONFUSED. Can you show me what it looks like when you are 'confused'
That's a wonderful confused face! I'm a little SAD we are almost done practicing together. I don't want to make you sad too but can you show me your 'sad' face?
That's a good sad face but enough of that we only have one more face to practice! Let's loosen up a bit before the competition and make a SILLY face!
It's time for the annual Bear Your Face! Competition. Wish me luck!
Guess what?! I won first place thanks to you! Thank you so much for your help I'm so PROUD of myself. You should be proud of yourself too! Show me your "proud" face.
