Building up a human body

Activity 10

Age group: 6-8 year-olds

Activity: Building up a human body

Vocabulary: body parts (head, eyes, nose, mouth, ears, shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, legs, knees, foot, feet)

Time: 15’

Material: 2 sheets of ‘brown paper’ (papel pardo)

Interaction Pattern: T-Ss

Preparation for the activity: separate the sheets of ‘brown paper’ and some coloured pencils or crayons

 Instructions:

1.   Stick the two sheets of brown paper together.

2.   Choose a S to be the ‘dummy’ and lie down on the floor with arms and legs open.

3.   The T draws the outline of the S.

4.   The T chooses each S at a time to colour or draw the parts of the body that are missing.

5.   Once finished, the T can hang the activity on one of the room walls.