Let’s finish up our human body model today. What does your body need? A few more organs? Let’s make a liver and kidneys together, and then ask your child what his or her body needs. I’ve seen children get magically creative their model, layering facial features over their brain, adding fingernails, or even a belly button.
Our liver cleans our blood, makes an important liquid called bile to digest our food, and helps us store energy. Here’s a video not really designed for preschoolers, but it’s four minutes. I think “real” ideas are important even when we are little. We never talk about our livers.
What is good for our liver and makes our liver happy? I just looked a few lists of things that help keep our livers happy. Our body loves grapefruit, avocado, leafy green vegetables, lemons, garlic, beets, cruciferous vegetables and walnuts. I’ve been adding a raw beet to berry smoothies, and they are beautiful and delicious. Yesterday I picked up ALL the leafy greens at Glade Road Growing. If your child likes green things, they have these incredible sunflower sprouts right now.
So how could we create a liver. Let your child be your guide. Your liver is a cleaning organ, so maybe you could make it out of a sponge? I’ve made them out of burgundy felt for a realistic liver, and even paper and crayons or paint would be just right.
Our kidneys also help filter and clean our blood. We have two of them and here’s where they are. Our food waste is processed in our intestines, and our urine is produced by our kidneys as they clean your blood. You really are a magical machine, aren’t you?
Here’s a beautiful book that isn’t on the internet, but I thought I’d share for your future library visits and book shopping.
Garden Children know that dragons love tacos, but here is a different kind of dragon who loves to grow vegetables.
One of our Honeybees had a birthday this weekend. Jetzen is four years old now, and I wanted to send him out a special food song that might be about HIS special human body.
Here’s a classic preschool song that explores vowel sounds AEIOU with a simple tune that kids love.
