During our summer vacation, we got the tiny opportunity to learn a bit about our body. Pinky has been asking to do activities about this topic for quite a time now. However, it seems that something always got in our way.

 

Not wanting to keep it longer, here are a few things we did.

 

First, we put this skeleton puzzle together. I am not sure where’s from because I bought it at Goodwill a couple of years ago.

The next activity was to write the bones names on index cards and match to the correct bone.

Meet your bones!

 

So cute together!

These are other puzzles we got to use. The brain is from Staples, and I think the others are from a dollar store. I know for sure they were $1 each!!!

 

Then, I made some organs using felt. I used an Anatomy book as a reference and draw the organs by sight.

I used cheap felt (busted!) so I had to fold it in half and glue the sides together with a hot glue gun. As a result, the felted organs are stronger which I think is good if small and busy hands are the ones using them.

The stomach. As you can see, the felt sheet is folded in half.

 

Here they are!!!

(Brain, lungs, heart, liver, gallbladder, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, urinary bladder, small and long intestines)

 

Another activity was to use doctor’s related stickers from Michaels to create art.

Isn’t that so cute?

 

We also watched a few videos from YouTube and the Magic school bus on Netflix (The Human body).

 

Finally, we read lots of books!

These books are ours. I mostly got them for 0.39 cents up to $1 at a Thrifty store nearby.

So far she just looked at the pictures and we read anything that called her attention at the moment.

We read the magic school bus (Spanish) and then watched the movie on Netflix.

 

Finally, no unit can’t be completed without some dramatic play time or field trip.

Actually, we have 3 physicians at home!

 

 

Visit our Pinterest board: Anatomy for more amazing ideas!

 

 

I believe it wasn’t a short unit after all!

I saw this one on Pinterest (here’s the link to the post) and was on my to-do-list for a while until I got the best opportunity to give it a try: a sitting day! Oh boy, it was LOTS of fun. It was tried by TWO almost 4 years old girls and got 4 thumbs up (lol….two thumbs up for each girl). They had a great time; they laugh, cleaned their cars, dance, laugh a bit more and I even got the windows cleaned up, sort of!  The best thing about this is you won’t need too much time to prepare it when you are needing something ASAP.

Just a note: do not blow it in because your will get the opposite reaction: all the foam get inside the bottle and maybe into your mouth, lol.

Try it.

You’ll love it!!!

After our long weeks with the Dinosaur unit, mommy was so tired and bored of the same but the little Pinky was not on the same path. She was still hungry for more learning about these amazing creatures. Therefore, I came with my last resources, thanks to Pinterest of course: Dinosaurs made with pine cleaners. I found them here. The post is in Spanish but it has Google translation application available. As for the T-rex and Pteranodon, I just followed the same rolling principle and my imagination. Sorry about that~!  My Apatosaurus wasn’t as cute as the one in the tutorial but I still think it is cute.

 

Aren’t they cute????

 

Pinky loved it!. She grabbed them as soon as I finished the assembly.  Unfortunately,  they didn’t last for so long in Pinky’s hands.

At least, I can reuse the pine cleaners and she had a fun time pretending different voices, roles, situations and sensorial stimulation while playing with them.

Awww! We love Dinosaurs…..they are really fun!

Found it on Pinterest…and we DID IT!!!

What else did you find at Pinterest and you had fun doing it???

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