Help kids learn about what is under their skin with this fun, hands-on human body project. This life size human body project is an interactive way for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students to learn about —-. This human body project ideas can be a simple life size human body project or use our free printable templates to add bones of the body, organ templates, and more. SImply print the free human body printables and you are ready to begin creating the human body project.
Human Body Project
We love making learning fun with hands on educational activities that are as memorable and fun as they are good for teaching kids about science. Learn about the human body for kids with this epic human body project! This life size human body project allows students to learn and review the bones of the body, what the major organs are and where they are located, plus have some fun looking under their skin. These body system project idea are fun and adaptable for children from preschoolers, kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 6, and grade 7 students. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – this fun human body parts project is perfect! Use it to learn bones for kids and organs for kids in your classroom, as a fun cooperative science activity, to learn more about anatomy for kids, or in any other supplement to your science lesson.
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Human Body for Kids
The human body is an amazing thing that kids will be fascinated to learn about. Did you know:
- Heart beats 100,000 times a day!
- Color of your skin is determined by the level of pigment melanin your body makes
- Most adults have 32 teeth
- Smallest bone in the body is in the middle ear
- Your nose and ears keep growing your whole life!
- Everyone has not only a unique fingerprint, but a unique tongue print too!
- It takes about 12 hours to completely digest food you eat!
- Infants have 270 bones at birth and only 206 bones as an adult
Kids will love leaning about what is inside their body by making a replica of themselves and taking a peak at the bones and organs inside.
Life Size Human Body Project
Kids of all ages from preschool to kindergarten and elementary age kids will love learning about their body with this FUN, hands-on, and interactive human body project for kids. Plus, it includes free printable human body parts for kids to use to make their anatomy.
Human Body Printables
Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> ____ <<. The free human body printables file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.
The Human Body Project
For this parts of the body project ideas have your children lay on a large sheet of butcher paper and trace their body. Cut out their shape. For really young children you can stop here and have them decorate the clothes their body is wearing. You can talk about how clothes protect our bodies.
HINT: Make sure you trace them on a table or hard floor instead of carpet.
Human Body Project Ideas
Next put together the printable skeleton system so your child can see what is under their skin – bones!
- Print the free template below (the template is the perfect size for most kids 8-12 years old, for kids 4-7 just print at 85% size under print options)
- Cut out the bones in the printable
- Glue bones on the cut-out.
Body System Project Ideas
To help my kids learn the name of the bones, I had them write the names of the bones on their body. For younger students you don’t need to learn all the names. You may just learn a few or none, but the visual is amazing. Have them press on their arm and ask if they can feel the hard bone under their skin that is holding their body together.
We used this free printable Skeletal System Worksheet to learn about and label the bones.
- Skull – including the jaw bone
- Spine – cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, sacrum and tailbone (coccyx)
- Chest – ribs and breastbone (sternum)
- Arms – shoulder blade (scapula), collar bone (clavicle), humerus, radius and ulna
- Hands – wrist bones (carpals), metacarpals and phalanges
- Pelvis – hip bones
- Legs – thigh bone (femur), kneecap (patella), shin bone (tibia) and fibula
- Feet – tarsals, metatarsals and phalanges.
Human Body Project for Kids
Students will learn about the 206 bones in their body with this fun science projects for kids of all ages!
HINT: We like to print a enlarged picture of their face to put over their cranium to identify each of the skeletons. Kids think it is hilarious!
Human Body Parts Project
Next, print your pdf file with a pack of free human body printables. This will take this human body project a step farther to teach kids about the organs in their bodies. Print in color these free printable human body parts for kids at the bottom of this post, then cut out the organs. Each one is labeled on the print out.
Human Anatomy for Kids
Students will then add the organs with glue or tape to their skeletal system. This is like a giant life-size puzzle that will help then them learn about human anatomy with an EPIC science activity for kids of all ages!
Human Skeleton for Kids
Help kids learn about the important organs in their body as well as their function. Grab the free organs printable at the bottom of the post:
- Lungs – These help us breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.
- Kidneys – They filter our blood and help remove waste from our bodies.
- Heart – The heart pumps blood throughout our body, giving oxygen and nutrients to all our organs.
- Bladder – This stores urine until we are ready to go to the bathroom.
- Large intestine – It absorbs water from the food we eat and helps in the formation of solid waste.
- Small intestine – This is where most of the digestion and absorption of nutrients happens.
- Stomach – It helps break down food and starts the digestion process.
- Liver – It processes nutrients, filters blood, and aids in detoxification.
- Pancreas – This organ helps regulate blood sugar levels by producing insulin.
- Gallbladder – It stores bile produced by the liver, which helps digest fats.
- Brain – The control center of our body, responsible for processing information and controlling our movements.
- Skin – The largest organ of the body, it protects us from germs and regulates body temperature.
- Eyes – These help us see the world around us.
Organs for Kids
Our completed activity allows kids to visualize the human body for kids! This zany, outrageously fun science project will be one kids remember their whole life!
Human Body Preschool
This outrageously FUN human body preschool project using free printables allows kids to learn about what is inside their body. This is perfect for a my body unit for younger kids, anatomy lesson for elementary age kids, human body cut out project, or as part of Classical Conversations Challenge A project.
Human Body Activities
We continued exploring the five senses with these grade school and human body preschool activities:
- Grab this free printable 5 senses preschool printables to explore the senses of sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch
- Human Body human body playdough mats – lots of choices to learn about various systems of the body including simple for preschoolers, skeletal system, organs, muscles, nerves, and more!
- Teach kids about human cells for kids with hands on activities, free printable reader, human cell worksheets, and more!
- Human Body Printables makes a printable book that teaches students all about their heart, brain, muscles, cells, skin, bones, lungs, stomach, intestines, and bladder
- 4 EPIC Skeletal System Project ideas for kids – using things like pasta, life saver gummies, lego, and more you can learn about the human body in a fun memorable way
- Free Skeletal System Worksheets for Kids – everything you need to teach kids about their bodies!
- Kids will love learning about the ear with this model of ear for school project
- Parts of the Brain for Kids Activity with Playdough Brain Model & Free Brain Worksheets for Kids
- Lungs for Kids Working Model and lesson plan
- Blood for Kids – Actiivty to learn about the Human Body
- Amazing 5 Senses for kids lesson to explore with hands on activities, videos, books, and more!
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- Human Heart for Kids: 2 Fun Heart Models plus Worksheets
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- Huge pack of 5 Senses Worksheets to explore the senses and sneak in some math and literacy activities too
- EPIC, Life-size Human Body Project
- How do Muscles Work – Simply Skeletal Muscle Model that works
- See all of our hands-on ideas to make learning about the human body for kids FUN and more creative printable science experiments for all ages
- How do Hands Work – Human Body Muscles for Kids Project
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Free human body printables
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Thank you for allowing us to download all your activities for free. You have been a blessing to our homeschool. I can’t tell you the number of times your activities or project ideas have been the highlight of our lessons. You truly have made an impact on our homeschool.
Aw, thanks Caty. So glad to hear we’ve been able to help. Have a great week =)
Thank you so much for making the human body a free printable. Being a nurse I love that I can teach my daughter about the human body. Such a creative and fun project.
Thanks Daniell.
Thank you so much for letting me find this amazing teaching tool and for your generosity! I’m so excited to get started on this project with my kids!!!
This is such a fantastic project!! Since we are not all learning at home I can not thank you enough for allowing this to be a free download! My daughter’s second grade class has started The Human Body chapter and we always love to go a little deeper into the subjects if we can and this is just what we needed!! Bravo to you!!!
I’m a student from Belgium and I’m learning to become a teacher (my english isn’t really good) but I just really want to say “Thank you” !!
You’re work is amazing !
Thanks from Belgium !
Thank you for allowing us to download all your activities for free…
I am grateful and so are my students…
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thanks you very much! many free prinable, my son very happy. thanks you
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Thank you so much for this! My granddaughter is only 4 1/2 but her mom is a doctor and tells her all about how her body works. She is fascinated with body parts and this will be so much fun for her. She has been cooped up with her dad during the pandemic while her mom works and dad is always looking for more things to keep her active mind occupied!
I am so thankful for this. We are doing themed weeks to keep the kids engaged during this quarantine. This will be a great addition to our medical school week and you saved me so much time. I cant thank you enough. I am so greatful!
Really excited about this! I’m having a hard time finding the products on your TPT site- is there a direct link you can provide to these printables on TPT? Thanks!
Sorry you are having trouble. You can find my human body printables here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Beth-Gorden/Search:human+body
But this particular one you are posting after is free for all =) Enjoy!
Beth
Thank you for these wonderful FREE body activities! I am so excited to do these with my 4th and 1st graders.
Amazing! I came up with the idea to trace my boys on mural paper for their human body unit in Science then came across your fantastic blog for the skeletal system. I am so SO thankful for this!!
God bless you!
Thank you for allowing us download it 🙂 it’s very helpful for me preparing acitivity for my students learn from home by making project skeleton
What a delight to stumble upon this free printable. I can’t wait to share this with my preschooler and kindergartener. Thank you for your generosity!!
Thank you for this free printable. I’m really excited to try it with my kids. One thing, I’m having a hard time finding where the pdf file is to print out the skeleton and organs. Could you help me please?
Hi Kailey! Scroll to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> Download <<. There are 2 separate download link - one for the skeleton and a separate one for the organs. Enjoy!
Hello,
I just discovered your site (French containment will have at least had this advantage !). Thank you SOOOOOO MUCH for your web site ! All this help, ideas, … for our kids! It’s amazing !!! Again: thank you so much !
So glad you found us! =)
Hi! I just wanted to thank you for your website. My daughter and I just finished putting together your life size skeleton and it looks fantastic!! So as a (currently— homeschooling mom), thank you for all your efforts!! Suzy
Happy to help!
Thank you so much for this free printable. My kids are very happy and excited to know their life size bones like this. And I feel very grateful. Cute ?
Thank you so much for these pintables! I so appreciate you offering so many resources for free!! I am new to the homeschool crew & can see your site being a frequent resource for me.
Great activity, really love it! I am unable to find the link for the full sized skeletons? Would you be able to link it for me please, thanks!
This is wonderful and just what I was looking for! Looking forward to doing this with my kid. Do you happen to also have a muscles printout?
Sorry, we don’t. We didn’t dive that deep and I couldn’t find any clipart 😉
sure – that works =)
Thanks a lot for this free printable. This will be a fun and educating project with my son and useful for my students also.
He loves to learn about human body parts.
May your family will always be blessed and happy.
AWESOME!
Beth, I’m so impressed by the variety of ways you’ve included these human body ideas into your post. I’ve passed it on to my Homeschool Whisperer FB Group families.
This looks fantastic! I can’t seem to find the pdf to download and print . Is it still available?
Sure is, scroll to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the TEXT LINK that says >> ____ <<
These are so great. Thank you! For some reason I can’t find how to print these free printables. Could anyone help?
Make sure you click on the TEXT LINK at the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, that looks like >> _____<< FOr more printing help with screen shots – https://www.123homeschool4me.com/download-files-help_98/
Thank you so much for this! I am amazed by the time and effort you put into these projects and still more amazed that you wanted to share them for free! God bless your good heart! I shared your link already so you would get more clicks.
Thanks for sharing! WE are so glad we can help!
thank you for helping us with your free printables! we are excited to do this today! God bless the works of your hands..
Thank you so much. These printables are amazing. I know the children are going to be very excited putting them together. Thanks for sharing .
thank you so much for sharing
This is Awesome!!! Thank you so much!
Thanks so much!
Thank you….thank you…..thank you for your generous. You saved my day. These are awesome work. Thank you for letting me download freely.
We did this last year during a summer home school session to retain, because of C—-, the things they had learned the year before. The kids LOVED it. So much we are doing it again this summer. We coupled this with the Bones song on You Tube and named him Dead Ed.
Love that! So glad you guys had fun learning =)
Thank you very much for this amazing learning materials and for allowing us to download this for free. 💕💕 This is very helpful ❣️
This is awesome! Thank you so much!
I’m grateful for your free resources! Thank you for all of your wonderful ideas, and for the different age-appropriate activities!
This is awesome! Thank you so much! I’m planning my next class about the human body and can’t wait to use this! I think the kids are going to love this activity!
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Fantastic learning material. Thank you so much for making the human body a free printable. I love that I can teach my daughter about the human body. Very creative and fun project.
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Thank you so much for making these fun, amazing resources! For sure children will love every learning experience with your creations!
Dear Beth, thank you so much for creating this fun activity. My students love ❤️ it.
Thank you for your amazing printables! We homeschool our two youngest that are still at home and absolutely love them. They enjoy all the different projects and learning. Thank you for blessing our family! <3
You are such a a blessing to our homeschool. Thank you for your help. You have made it easier to homeschool my grandchildren.