Bones

Introduction

Watch the four-minute video "Your Super Skeleton!"

Activity 1

Read Ezekiel 37:1-4 and sing the "The Foot Bone's Connected to..." song, with actions.

Curriculum areas: S05a, S05b, S12b, S12c, X02b, X02c

Activity 2

Print out the "bones dice game" sheet from the attachments. Take turns to use a dice and count out that many q-tips, placing them over the bone pictures on the sheet. The first person to cover all the bones wins.

Curriculum areas: M01a, M01b

Lunch Snack

Make breadstick bones and eat them with dip. Or, make toast "soldier" bones. Sprinkle cheese on or make the toast soldiers with cheese, and talk about how bones are made of calcium and you need to eat calcium to keep them strong.

Curriculum areas: S13a, S13b, S13c

Activity 3

Use straws to give playdough people skeletons, demonstrating the need for bones.

Curriculum areas: M08b, M08c