Help kids learn about what is under their skin with this fun, interactive, and hands on human body project for kids from toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. This 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. This engaging science project is EASY and LOW PREP too.
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. This epic 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. This science lesson is 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 science project is perfect! Use it for a human anatomy or my body unit 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.
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 Project Ideas
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 Model Project
Next in this human body activities for 2nd grade, put the skeletal system together 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.
- 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
Printable Human Body Parts for Kids
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!
The organ printables included for children to learn about are: lungs, kidney, heart, bladder, large intestine, small intestine, stomach, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, brain, skin, and eyes.
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
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!
- Teach kids about human cells for kids with hands on activities, free printable reader, human cell worksheets, and more!
- This Free Human Body Printables for Kindergarten bakes a printable book that teaches students all about their bodies
- 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 Building a model of the ear
- Amazing 5 Senses Kindergarten Unit for kids to explore with hands on activities. or try this jelly bean taste test experiment.
- Grab this free printable 5 senses mini book to explore the senses of sight, taste, sound, smell, and touch
- Kids will be amazed by these eye science experiments
- Even more creative printable science experiments, units, and activities for kids for all ages
Or see all of our fun, hands on ideas to make learning about the human body for kids FUN
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- Human Body Project
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School Project Human Body Parts
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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…
Happy to help =)
thanks you very much! many free prinable, my son very happy. thanks you
Happy to help!
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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!
Hi, thank you so much for sharing this! I realised there is no kidneys picture though the label is there. Do I missed out something?
THere should be now. Try downloading the file and then looking, sometimes it shows the old versions for the quick view.
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!
scroll to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use. THere are 2 >> Download << links. One with skeleton and the other with the organs. Enjoy!
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 😉