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.
