This fun hands-on human body for kids activity is such a fun way to learn about our amazing bodies! These free printable Human Body Playdough Mats are a fun way for kids of all ages to learn about what is inside our body. Children will make a play doh human body with these playdough mats to learn about our bones, skeletal system, muscles, organs, play doh digestive system, and more! Use these playdough mats as part of a study of the human body for kids study with toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students. Kids will love that they can add the body parts to the free playdough mats making it a truly hands on science activity.
Human Body for Kids
Human Body Playdough Mats
Play doh human body
These FREE printable playdough mats are a great, hands on learning activity for kids explore what is under their skin including:
- human skeleton for kids
- human body parts for kids
- human body parts for kids
- body organs for kids
There are lots of choices to learn about bones, organs, muscles and more in COLOR OR BLACK & WHITE. The blackline version will save on printer ink costs.
Play doh digestive system
Children can use playdough on the close-up human body playdough mat to make various human body organs for kids to visualize what is inside their body. Using a different color for each internal body parts for kids help skids to see how their different organs fit together including: trachea, lungs, heart, large intestine, small intestine, stomach, liver, brain, and more.
Playdough Mats
Using play dough children can learn about their skeletal system for kids by making bones on the various boy, girl, black/white, light/dark colored skin playdough mat. You can be very general for a simple human body for children study, or label orally or on your playdough mat the various bones such as skull, sternum, ribs, radius, ulna, pelvis, tibia, fibula, femur, knee cap, scapula, humorous, flanges, and more.
NOTE: The older the child, the more they will look like actual bones.
Human body activities
Kids will be able to visualize how muscles attach bones together (using ligaments) so that your bones move with this fun muscular system playdough mat. Again, there are several choices! This is such a fun human body preschool, or for elementary age students such as human body for kindergarten.
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Human Body Activities for Kids
- Human Body free Playdough Mats – lots of choices to learn about various systems of the body including simple for preschoolers, skeletal system, organs, muscles, nerves, and more!
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Free Playdough Mats
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Human Body Printables
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Beth, I cannot figure out how to download the human body play dough mats. Can you tell me what to do? Thank you so much!!!!
Hi Cynthia! Simply scroll to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, click on the TEXT LINK that says >> Download ___ >>
Enjoy =)
Pretty cool! Can’t wait to download and check out the rest of this site!!
These are amazing. Would I be allowed to share with the families I teach while we are distance learning currently?
You are always able to share a link to this post =)
Thank you!!!! Love these Play-Doh Body Mats, they’re awesome and I can’t wait to use them with my class! Stay healthy!
Thank you so much for these resources! It helps so much!!! -Homeschooling mom to 3