Resource for making life-size poster of internal organs with 1st grader?

[tld]

I'm wanting to make a life-size poster of the internal organs of the human body with my 1st grader.  Looking for a resource to do so.

[Wallflower]

Years ago I used a book called, My Body.  The author is Patricia Caratello.  It is basically a book with patterns of life size organs that kids can cut out and do just as you have you have described.  It's a paperback, consumable type and not overly expensive.  Have fun!

[SoCal_Bear]

One helpful thing for this is to get a roll of art or butcher paper and trace an outline of your child's body. Then you can have a place to paste all those life size organs.

[SoCal_Bear]

Oh...found a free printable resource. They did what I did with the tracing an outline.

https://www.adventure-in-a-box.com/printable-life-size-organs-for-studying-human-body-anatomy-with-kids/

[alisoncooks]

10 minutes ago, Wallflower said:

Years ago I used a book called, My Body.  The author is Patricia Caratello.  It is basically a book with patterns of life size organs that kids can cut out and do just as you have you have described.  It's a paperback, consumable type and not overly expensive.  Have fun!

We used this too. It worked well. 

[pitterpatter]

We used My Body too. It also includes short descriptions of various parts. You can see our finished product here.

Edited April 24, 2019 by pitterpatter

[Miss Tick]

For added fun Ellen J McHenry has a "brain hat" that you can make and wear around on the appropriate day. And to the library (apparently) 😁

[sweet2ndchance]

You can buy the e-book version of My Body. It is much easier to just print the pages out than photocopy them imho. I just purchased the regular one, not the enhanced one. The additional features of the enhanced version just were not anything I would use for this book.

[Dudley]

The body book is great but it is a lot of cutting for a first grader depending on the first grader.

my sons coop class colored a t-shirt that has all the internal organs pre printed on it. And that was really cool. Looks like you can get them at sciencewear.net for $5. They used the guts one

[sweet2ndchance]

2 hours ago, Dudley said:

The body book is great but it is a lot of cutting for a first grader depending on the first grader.

my sons coop class colored a t-shirt that has all the internal organs pre printed on it. And that was really cool. Looks like you can get them at sciencewear.net for $5. They used the guts one

 

Agreed on the too much coloring and cutting with young elementary kids, especially boys. I used colored paper to print them out on to eliminate the coloring and I cut them out for my kids. My kids placed and glued them. My goal for this particular project was for them to have a memorable way to study the human body on a basic level, not practice cutting or coloring skills. A lot of prep work for sure but I can tell you that my 21 year old son still remembers doing the My Body book project fondly. :-)