u/DynastyFan85

I’m doing self portraits with 5th grade. Classes struggle behaviorally to start off with. They are tracing an oval face shape, and we went over face mapping (line of symmetry down the middle, eye, nose and mouth line). I showed them where and how to make center dots for eyes and where to make additional markings for the sides of the eyes to give a feel for how big the eye should be. I have handouts on steps to draw eyes, nose, mouths (open, closed, or just a simple line smile)I’m having to help and adjust a lot of drawings which is overwhelming, and many students complaining they don’t like the way it looks. It’s hard to get their attention to not act silly and goofing around and talking during demonstration. I’m not sure if there is a super simple way to show them how to draw faces but this whole experience is torturous. Any advice would be appreciated. These are also going on display for their graduation ceremony