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Digestive System Craft for Kids

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A hands-on way to look at the digestive system, create this cute digestive system craft for kids and learn how food travels through our body.

This Digestive System Craft for Kids is so much fun! They’re going to love learning and being creative at the same time!

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. 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) then to the large intestine (blue) before it is eliminated from your body.

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A hands-on way to look at the digestive system, create this cute digestive system craft for kids and learn how food travels through our body.

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!

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Create this adorable digestive system craft for kids and learn how your body digests food

Extend this activity

Add some great human body books to read, get some human body coloring books, 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.

Recommended Human Body Book for Kids

These are some of our favorite books about the human body!

 Human Body! (Knowledge Encyclopedias)Human Body! (Knowledge Encyclopedias) The Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick & How You Get SickThe Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick & How You Get Sick Inside Out Human Body: Explore the World’s Most Amazing Machine-You!Inside Out Human Body: Explore the World's Most Amazing Machine-You! The Everything KIDS’ Human Body Book: All You Need to Know About Your Body Systems – From Head to Toe!The Everything KIDS' Human Body Book: All You Need to Know About Your Body Systems - From Head to Toe!

Digestive System Craft for Kids Supplies

Gather up the simple supplies to get started:

  • Construction paper
  • White pencil crayon or crayon
  • Yarn
  • Tape
  • Straw

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

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