Learning About the Body

1. Body outlines in chalk outside.   Can you make your body do jumping jacks?   Form a letter?
2. Shaving cream in the bathtub, paint your body “ rinse off afterward.
3. Label your body parts with a marker.   Take a bath and scrub the areas you labeled – helps increase word association.
4. Make hand or foot prints with paint
5. Make sand casts of various body parts
6. Make a model arm with recycled materials from around your house.
7. Find a big mirror and color parts with a dry erase marker
8. Make and play with paper dolls
9. Use butcher paper and trace your body.   Cut your body parts off (make a head, torso, leg, etc.) and reattach with paper fasteners.   Now you have a body puppet.   Variation: Make a smaller marionette out of cardboard instead of using butcher paper and make a smaller one.
10. Roll a dice labeled with body parts and race to touch that body part.
11. Play musical body games

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