Kids will have fun learning about their skeletal system with these fun, hands on bones activities for kids. These Skeletal System Projects for Kids make learning about the human body for kids fun!
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Skeletal System Projects for Kids
Make learning about the human body fun for kids with these creative Skeletal System Projects for Kids.
Human Spine Project for Kids
Before we built our human spine I tried to help them visualize two things:
- Without the cartilage disks our bones would get chipped (I demonstrated that by rubbing two rigatoni together and they were able to see the wear and tear on the “bone”)
- Without 33 independent bones working together we couldn’t bend and twist like we do (I put a sword down their back to be there solid bone vertebrae and they tried to do simple things like bend over – not so easy!!)
To help my kids understand what the spine looks like and how it functions we created this fun spine model:
- pipe cleaner as the spinal cord
- layers of rigatoni pasta as vertebrae (there should be 33 if you make it to scale)
- in between each vertebrae we put a life saver gummy to represent the cartilage disks
Layers of Bone Project for Kids
To help the kids visualize all the different layers in our bones we made the cross section of a bone. Here is what we used:
- red & blue pipe cleaners to represent blood vessels
- red straw to put the pipe cleaners in to represent red bone marrow
- yellow pool noodle to represent the spongy bone
- Lego Duplo to represent the hard smooth compact bone (the part you actually see in a typical skeleton)
- Gauze Wrap to represent the Periosteum (we drew blood vessels in the Periosteum with blue and red markers)
Skeletal System Printables
To complete your unit on the skeletal system you will want to grab our FREE Skeletal System Printables to learn about not only the bones and joints, but fun and interesting facts too!
Make learning about the bones that make up our skeletal system fun with this FREE Printable Life-size Human Body Project.
And don’t miss our FREE Human Body Playdough Mats with a variety of different mats to help kids practice adding in bones, organs, muscles, and more using play dough.
Thank you so much Beth for this wonderful lesson on the skeletal system. It was so well explained and illustrated. We simply loved it.
Hello, I would like to download this materials for my students but I can’t find a link or button to download it. Can you please help me? Thank you I’d really appreciate it
Hi Raquel! I am happy to help! This post shares several of our ideas we’ve written about more in detail in other posts. You can find them here:
– https://www.123homeschool4me.com/free-skeletal-system-worksheets-kids_30/
– https://www.123homeschool4me.com/human-body-project/
– https://www.123homeschool4me.com/free-human-body-playdough-mats_10/
Enjoy!!