This edible skin project is the next fun hands-on for our human body unit study. Also I have this Human Body Crafts page for more fun ideas.
Right away, I will tell you we had more fun though a flop (or we at least thought so) with our edible skin project for our homeschool unit study human body.
You know I tout that I do my best to use what we have here in the house. Sometimes it turns out well and other times not so good.
Too, some things we don’t have in the house because well they don’t exist here in Cuenca or at least the part we live at here in Ecuador.
Things like ready made icings I can’t find.
The human body lapbook was free for a limited time.
So for this project I had the heavenly dulce de leche in the house.
By the way, have you ever heard of it?
It is basically translated sweet milk and it is made by caramelizing sugar in milk.
This heavenly stuff though takes hours to make home made, is sold readily on the store shelves here and was the closest thing I had to icing for our edible skin project today.
Look at what we grabbed and had made:
■ jello. We actually have to make this and though normally it doesn’t matter how thick it is when we eat it, it did this time.
■marshmallows (tiny ones work good too, but they don’t have them here)
■gummy worms
■ dulce de leche (a fruit roll up would have worked better or an icing, but then again we don’t have that here either in Ecuador.)
■few toothpicks
So Tiny took about 6 of the marshmallows and laid them out. We pushed a few toothpicks through them to hold them together.
Going good so far.
Then we took our not so solid jello and layered on top, then the fun mess started.
Tiny tried to plow through like a trooper by adding the dulce de leche, but our edible skin was looking more like an explosion by a five year old.
Tiny was intent on finishing it and added a few gummy worms for hair follicles.
Of course, he had to look over it for a while. We both lost it laughing, but thought it was the most delicious flop we had tasted in a while.
I have the next two minibooks for the heart lapbook.
More Human Body Crafts
- Simple and Easy Circulatory System Hands-on Activity for Kids
- How to Turn a Pizza Into a Fun Edible Human Cell Model
- How To Make A Fun Bones Of The Hand Labeled X-Ray Craft
- 7 Human Skull Facts and Cool Human Skull Anatomy Activity
- How to Make a Fun Hands-on Playdough Brain Activity
- Major Organs of The Human Body Labeled Fun Felt Anatomy Activity
- Fun Resources and Books About The Human Body For Preschoolers
- 8 Eye Facts & Human Body Activities Middle School & Fun Eye Model
- 12 Human Body Games For Middle School & High School
- Craft a Fun Hand Straw Model to Explore Human Anatomy Muscles & Tendons
- How to Make a Human DIY Heart Model Easy Craft for Kids
- 8 Facts About the Respiratory System & Fun Lung Craft for Kids
- 7 Human Body Facts and Kids Human Body T-Shirt Project
- Fun Edible Spine
- Making Blood + What Are the Components of Blood
- DIY Heart Pump
- Kids Stethoscope Activity
- Build An Edible DNA Model
- Edible Skin
- Rigid versus Flexible Bone Activity.
- Pregnancy Belly Female Study of Human Anatomy Kids Fun Craft
I am just about ready to show you where we placed them on the lapbook. It’s almost completed.
Grab all of the lapbook printables and hands-on activities below.
I’ve been a fan of your lapbooks for quite a while and have told quite a few people of your blog and website. In fact, I usually look at your materials whenever we start a new unit! We’ve been studying the human body this school year, so your materials fit well with what we are studying! One problem I do have is that our 13 year old son has never really been very interested in lapbooks although we have put together several, I have usually ended up doing most of the cutting, pasting, and generally putting them together, while our autistic son has been willing to do whatever writing has been needed. Personally, I think it’s possible the issue is more that he really doesn’t like to do much writing at this point in his life although I make an effort to schedule penmanship and writing, he usually skips those subjects if he can. So, I’ve been trying to move from lapbooks to notebooking as much as possible. I was wondering if you are your children have done much notebooking and if there is any chance you might offer the option of notebooking from time to time instead of lapbooks? Maybe a combination of the two or something?
Edwina
I hear ya Edwina and love having you here…
However, notebooking can require more writing than lapbooks, which is why we do lapbooks……I do them as enrichment and because my kids do a lot of writing otherwise, I wanted something that required less writing..
By it’s nature, notebooking is full of writing….AND remember that minibooks can be glued on pages and do not have to be folded into a lapbook..you can combine my minibooks with other printables and glue on a notebook page if you prefer..