Making funny faces can be one of the best methods of teaching kids about the different emotions they might be feeling and how to express them properly, how to recognise them in others and understand what others are going through.
Alongside introducing giving them their first taste for acting, our playlist of songs about funny faces are hilarious for all the family, whether you’re singing them in a pair or doubling the excitement with a bigger group.
Funny Face Songs
1. Funny Face Song (CoComelon)
Funny Face Song is a simple and easy-to-learn nursery rhyme centred around a warm and woodsy soundscape decorated by xylophones and ukuleles.
Featuring some more complex hand clap percussion patterns which older kids and adults can join in on, Funny Face Song is designed to introduce the youngest, comprehending children how to form different expressions and what they represent, using catchy and repetitive lyrics to anchor its point;
“Make an angry face, with a great big frown, an angry face, an angry face … Make a surprised face, with your mouth open wide, a surprised face, a surprised face…”
This track uses expressive voice acting to demonstrate each emotion, encouraging child-like adventure into sound whilst drawing natural lines between emotions and their expression.
2. Funny Face Song (Macmillan Children’s Books)
Funny Face Song by Macmillan Children’s Books is a catchy acoustic guitar track intended to be listened to and followed for its actions, rather than sung for its expressive lyrics.
This song is great for all children of elementary school age, every single lyric inciting a different action and facial expression. This track doesn’t teach emotion alongside its facial expressions, instead being a song full of pure fun and silliness;
“Make a funny face, move your eyes and nose and mouth all over the place. Raise your eyebrows, roll your eyes, make them grow to twice their size, shut them tight, wink and blink, keep them open just a hint.”
3. Make A Silly Face (Bounce Patrol)
Make A Silly Face uses the concept of making funny faces to uniquely show how you can replace emotions with one another, chasing away the blues and giving you a way to make yourself feel better when you’re sad;
“What can you do when you’re feeling kinda down?.. You can make a silly face, spread some cheer, clouds disappear, there is no better place, so make a silly face.”
Listing a number of different silly faces and encouraging you to pull them, this catchy kids’ song transfers its warm-hearted sentiment onto others as well, illustrating how being yourself and having fun brightens other people’s moods as well as your own;
“What can you do when your friends feel blue? What can you do when they’re sad… Put on a face, a really silly face, there’s nothing more to say, one look at you will brighten up their day.”
4. Mark And Helen Johnson – Making Funny Faces
The official schools’ song for the Red Nose Day 2015 charity fundraiser, Making Funny Faces motivates kids to raise money for charity and make the world a better place by making funny faces and embracing their comedic side, in line with the UK charity’s silly ‘red noses.’
This track transcends its specific charity connotations however, being a song to inspire kids to be creative when it comes to any comedy-themed fund-raising event, whilst sharing the importance of making others laugh;
“Put on a funny face, we’ve got some money to raise, let’s do whatever it takes to make the world a happier place.”
5. Funny Face (Kids Funny Songs)
This cute and quirky song paints the idea of funny faces against the context of taking selfies and using filters to make yourself look even more ridiculous.
There aren’t too many lyrics in this song other than its simplistic chorus, its verses acted out in spoken word between a girl tricking her friend into thinking she’s taking a handsome photo of him, when really she’s using filters to make him look silly.
This funny face song is great for April Fools Day, based around a harmless, easy and funny prank that’s great for all ages.
6. Baby’s Laughter (Eli Kids)
Baby’s Laughter is styled to the classic tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, ensuring a track that’s easily memorable and fun for the young ones to sing or simply listen to.
Lyrically fashioned around the many things which make a baby or toddler happy, this track includes a verse about making funny faces as a way of bonding and building a relationship between parent and child;
“Daddy and me, we play chase, then he makes a silly face, his face goes up, his face goes down, he smiles big then makes a frown, nothing is more fun for me than laughing with my fun daddy.”
7. Funny Faces Song (Little World)
Little World’s Funny Faces Song extends the theme of the first track on our list, adding to the list of emotions and explaining on a child’s level what they feel like and how they might manifest physically;
“Scared face, scared face, say ‘Oh no,’ make a scared face, we’re scared when someone near shouts out ‘Boo!’ … Make a grumpy face, we’re grumpy when we’re bored and don’t know what to do.”
This track hosts an addictively repetitive chorus line which is easy for even the youngest kids to pick up, comprised only of the words ‘funny face’ set to a dance-worthy rhythm.
8. Justine Clarke – Dancing Face
Justine Clarke’s children’s song, Dancing Face, uses its funny title to describe a face that can’t stop moving around. Clarke’s lyrics inspire a number of physical actions and faces to be pulled, ranging from emotional facial responses to stupid expressions made just for the fun of it.
This track has some great funny faces in the video which will automatically incite other kids to copy them, as well as the actions laid out in the lyrics;
“Can you wiggle your nose, blink your eyes, lift your eyebrows and look surprised… Eyebrows up, eyebrows down, make a smile, make a frown, put it together, that’s all it takes for you to make a dancing face.”