Digestive System Craft for Kids

This Digestive System Craft for Kids is so much fun! Your kids will love learning and being creative at the same time!

If you want more activities for your child, you can see more from my list of human body activities for kids.

Are you learning about the digestive system? We loved learning about the human body this year and I came up with this fun craft for my homeschool co-op class. It’s a Digestive System craft for kids.

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How to Teach the Digestive System in a Creative Way?

After the massive mess from our Skeleton craft, I was going for something that was less messy and that involved less glue.

I wanted to ensure that the kids understood that the digestive tract is essentially one long tube. Food travels from your mouth and is digested by all of the different organs before being removed from the body as waste.

So looking at the activity, I just cut out shapes that resembled those organs, I didn’t worry about the size or complete accuracy but I wanted the kids to see how the food traveled through them.

It would go through the mouth, enter the straw, to the esophagus then to the stomach (orange), the liver (yellow), and gall bladder (red) are organs that add enzymes that are needed for digestion.

Then from the stomach, food, or the bolus, travels to the small intestine (yarn) and then to the large intestine (blue) before it is eliminated from your body.

If you like this activity, check out our fun Human Life Cycle Worksheet, too!

Recommended Human Body Books

These are some of our favorite books about the human body! These recommended books about the wonders of the human anatomy is an interactive and fun way, making them a must-have book for young explorers eager to learn how their bodies work.

My Book of the Human Body: For Kids Ages 6-12.Human Body! (Knowledge Encyclopedias)Inside Out Human Body: Explore the World’s Most Amazing Machine-You!First Human Body Encyclopedia (DK First Reference)Me and My BodyThe Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body

 

Recommended Human Body Printable Activities

Curious Scientist Science Study: Digestive System

Learn more about the digestive system and human body with these engaging printable worksheets. It’s perfect for kids in grade levels 4-6!

Curious Scientist Science Study: Human Body Bundle

Learn about each of the human body systems in this growing bundle of knowledge for your young biology lovers.

Digestive System Craft for Kids Supplies

Gather up the simple supplies to get started with this activity:

• Construction paper (assorted colors)
• White pencil crayon or crayon
• Yarn
• Tape
• Straw

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Recommended Human Body Kits

To complement the books, I highly recommend various human body kits that offer hands-on exploration, making complex biology fun and tangible for young scientists.

Be Amazing! Toys Interactive Human Body Fully Poseable Anatomy Figure – 14” Tall Human Body Model for Kids – Anatomy Kit – Removable Muscles, Organs and Bones STEM Kids Anatomy Toy – Ages 8+Thames & Kosmos Gross Anatomy: Make-Your-Own Squishy Human Body STEM Experiment Kit | Make Colorful Models of Human Organs with Slime & Putty | Fun, Tactile Intro to Human Anatomy | 5 Cool ActivitiesSmartLab Toys Squishy Human Body, Multicolor, StandardLearning Resources Anatomy Models Bundle Set, Brain, Body, Heart, Skeleton, Classroom Demonstration Tools, Teacher Accessories, Grades 8+, Ages 3+The Magic School Bus:A Journey into the Human Body3D Organ Toy Set, Human Body Anatomy Awareness Teaching Tools, Preschool Educational Organ Plush Toys, Science Learning Kits for Kids for Home School Teaching Aids (Organ Toy)

 

How to Make the Digestive System Craft for Kids

We had so much fun with this craft and I think you’re going to love it, too. Make certain to tell me what you think after you and the kids do this simple activity!

Directions:

1. Outline a person’s body shape using a white pencil crayon or crayon
2. Tape down the straw  to show the mouth and esophagus
3. Add the stomach, liver, gall bladder, and large intestines that are cut out of construction paper
4. Cut a length of string that is 20 cm long and crumple it underneath the large intestines.

I just drew out the organs onto the construction paper with a general idea of the shape of the organ. It doesn’t need to be perfect.

The liver has a triangular shape and the gall bladder has a balloon shape. The stomach has an L-shaped sack, and the large intestines make a C-shape. They go up, across, and down to the anus.

More Human Body Activities

Be creative in teaching the human body to your kids through this wide variety of fun and engaging activities. They are made for kids of different ages!

• Books About the Human Body for Elementary Students
• Anatomy Activities for Elementary Students
• Human Body Crafts for Elementary
• Digestive System Worksheets for Kids
• Muscle System Hand Craft
• Muscular System Hand Craft
• Magic Heart Activity by Taming Little Monsters
• Human Body Printable Bingo Cards by Darcy and Brian

Extend this activity

Add some great human body books to read, get some human body coloring books, and test different foods to see which parts of the tongue can taste salty, bitter, or sweet. Get a piece of string and measure out how long the small intestine is which is about 6 meters or 20 feet long.

Crafting a model of the digestive system can be a fun and educational way to understand how our body processes food from ingestion to digestion for your young curious learners at home!