My Body Themed Activities and Centers

It’s time for a My Body theme, and friends, these activities are going to get you super excited! I have tons of math, literacy, art, and sensory activities you can put right into your lesson plans, and I have two FREEBIES for you too! Make sure you grab the my body themed activities later in this post.  For those of you who do Teeth or a Dental Health theme during your My Body theme, I did a separate post just for Teeth and Dental Health, and you can check it out HERE.

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My Body THemed Activities for Literacy

Our fingerprints are unique and part of our body.  Put the worksheets away and make fingerprint letters! Have students stamp a letter and then try to make the letter using their fingertips.

My students LOVE building letters with glass gems, and I found these red and clear glass gems at the Dollar Tree!  Pretend the gems are red and white blood cells and build uppercase and lowercase letters. Students can also trace the letters with dry-erase markers or make the letters using play dough.

Our body is supported by many bones, so these bone beginning sound clip-it cards are perfect for my body themed activities.  Plus, pinching those clothespins open and closed is a fabulous fine motor workout, too!

Sometimes, our body gets injured, and we use bandages to help us heal.  For these boo-boo rhyme puzzles, I used Velcro dots so students can attach the matching rhyme to make the middle part of the bandage. This game could easily be made into a file folder game, too!

For every theme, I placed theme vocabulary cards in the pocket chart (don’t worry, the lowercase my body vocabulary cards are right in front of the my body writing paper).  My students this year LOVE skinny markers, so you bet I have their favorite thing in the writing center to keep them excited about writing!

Ahhhh, new books! There are so many fabulous books for this theme! Books about eating healthy, sleeping, exercise, yoga, the body, getting sick, germs, and going to the doctor.  You can find a clickable book list HERE.

Syllable Stew! Grab some food items, a pan, and a spoon, and create a syllable stew. Students stir, scoop an item, and count the number of syllables. Be sure to pick items that are longer words and have multiple syllables.

Skeleton Letters! This one is so simple to make! I wrote letters all over the paper. Placed a skeleton and some qtips on the paper. Then students used the bones (qtips) to build the letters. Change the color of the paper, and you can use this activity for a body or health theme!

My Body Themed Activities for Math

Every person has a heartbeat, and writing it on a piece of paper is a fun way for students to practice fine motor skills! Cut a red piece of paper in half and create various types of lines on them.  Grab small red gems, clear gems, and small popsicle sticks.  If you don’t have glass gems handy, just use red or white pom poms.
Students build the lines with the manipulatives, and then students can make patterns on the lines!

Fingerprint graphs! Students identify the number and make the same amount of fingerprints above the number to create the graph. So many objectives in one activity! There is counting, identifying numbers, comparing quantities, and graphing all in one activity.  Yes!

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Time to measure! I love using non-standard rulers with my little learners and how much fun are these bandage rulers.  Students can learn about their body parts and explore measurement at the same time.  I also filled the tray with items you use to keep you healthy, like soap, a toothbrush, and various bandages for students to measure, too!

Anything with a spinner is always a hit in my classroom.  These silly germs are all different shapes. Just spin the spinner, identify the shape, and cover it with a matching pom pom.  These are similar to the translucent spinners I have.

Doctor Shapes! I drew small shapes all over; then, I added a heart inside. Give students bandaids, popsicle sticks, and string to make the shapes. You can laminate the bandaids so students can use them repeatedly. Keep reading for more body themed activities.

My Body Themed Activities for Art & Sensory

Skeleton self-portraits (or you can call them x-ray self-portraits) are a fun twist to a regular self-portrait. I pulled out this skeleton from my Halloween decorations for students to use for support and to examine. Students draw the skeletons on black paper with white chalk.

This health sensory bin was super simple to make.  It includes white rice, hand tweezers, red glass gems, white glass gems, tooth mini erasers, small popsicle sticks, and Q Tips.  Use small containers like baby food containers to encourage counting and sorting during play.

An X-Ray play dough tray is perfect for a My Body theme! Cut up white pipe cleaners for bones and twist some into a circle for the skull. Use gingerbread cookie cutters and pet cookie cutters so students can compare their bodies to a dog’s body!

Germs can travel fast and be transferred from person to person very easily.  Squirt a few dots of paint onto the FREE hand printable.  Students can “cough” or blow through a straw to move the paint.  Once the paint is dry, add little angry germ faces to each paint blob.

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Taking showers and baths keeps our bodies clean and healthy! Teaching little ones about hygiene is so important.  Make beautiful prints with a shower loofah.   I found this three-pack of mini loofahs at the dollar tree, and the tray is from IKEA.

My Body Themed Activities for Science, Blocks, STEM, & Dramatic Play

X-Ray Light Table! If you are doing a healthy eating or body themed activities, you could set up an x-ray light table. Students can look at real X-ray images and build what they see with mini-bone manipulatives. Set out books, posters, and other skeletons for added interest and learning opportunities to up the benefits of light play in your preschool classroom.  

Check out this interactive Science center! Real x-rays to examine, a skeleton to build, and a baby to label. I barely have time to teach science during circle or small groups, so having an engaging Science center that kids WANT to go to independently during centers is HUGE to me.  Grab the My Body Science Unit HERE.

Don’t forget about the block center! Place empty cereal boxes or empty food containers in the center for students to use for the building. Add veggie counter or fruit counters, too! I unfold the boxes and keep them for the next year.  You can also ask families to send in cereal boxes so students can have the cereal they eat in the block center! Post photos of places in the community that promote healthy living for students to build.

Teach students about healthy eating and nutrition by transforming the Dramatic play center! Students can practice making healthy food choices through PLAY! Click HERE to read all my tips and tricks to make your center into a Grocery Store

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