Give students a soft foam ball or balloon and challenge them to keep it in the air with different body parts.

Play Simon Says.

Explore body parts on dolls. Give each student a doll and have one for yourself. Have students name a body part and see if everyone can find it on their doll.

Talk about the parts that make up our parts. In our hands we have many different parts – fingers, thumbs, knuckles, etc.

Trace around students on large mural paper. Have them decorate all their body parts on their life-sized picture.

Have students help you draw a person. Explain to them that they are going to tell you what comes next. Tell them that you are going to start at the top of the person – what do you need to draw first. Let them guide you through the drawing. If students can’t come up with any more parts have them look at themselves and each other to see what other parts they might add. 

Make A Face:  Spoon pudding into wide mouth cups. Let children create faces with the chocolate chips, marshmallows, etc...

Play some bouncy music. Have the children stand facing you, and ask them to jiggle the body part you call out. Start with arm, head, etc. Then move on to harder body parts (calf, thigh).

Cut strips of masking and cellophane tape and partially attach them to the edge of a table. Kids love tape! Use the tape to identify body parts. Ask the children to place a piece of tape on the body part you name (Place tape on your nose, knee...).

See and Say: A simple game to teach both listening skills and following directions. With the children sitting in a circle give commands such as "touch your fingers to your toes" or "put your hand on your thigh." When the children do this well give two instructions at once, "put one hand on your head and the other hand on your tummy."

Cut-Out Body: Cut circles, triangles, and other simple shapes out of construction paper. Have the children assemble the shapes into a person, talk about parts of the body all the time. The shape person can be glued onto a piece of construction paper.

My eyes are like a...: Fold construction paper into 4 sections (horizontal fold). On the first section write "My (pic of eyes) are the same color as.... Have children look in a mirror and tell what color their eyes are. Then on the first section of the page the child can draw his/her eyes and color them. The next 3 fold sections the child draws a picture of something that is the same color as his/her eyes. The adult labels each picture with what the child says it is. (ex: brown eyes. pic of a tree, a cat, ect... blue eyes: a picture of the sky, a lake, etc..)

My Eye: Posterboard cut in a eye shape. Give children mirrors to look at their eyes. Child draws a circle in the middle of the eye pattern. Colors the center of the circle a black circle. Then color the large circle the color of your eyes. Give child a choice of brown or black construction paper to cut strips to paste onto the top and bottom of the eye pattern for eye lashes.

Foot Book: Paint the childrens’ feet and create your own Foot Book.

Foot Puppet: Have children stand on a piece of construction paper. Trace around the child's foot and then cut out the shape. Staple a tongue depressor or craft stick to the heel of the foot for a handle. Let the children draw faces onto their foot puppets.

Sand Table: Add shoes to the sand table. Children can make prints in the sand wearing the shoes on their hands.

Use Your Toes: In the middle of a circle place small soft items on the floor. Place a clothes basket in the center of the circle. Have children remove their shoes and socks. While seated the children move and pick up the items with their feet and place them in the basket.

Left and Right: Place a sticker on the toe of each child's right shoe. Discuss "left" and "right". Play a movement games of follow the directions--stand on right foot, kick you left foot up high, touch left elbow...start with movements using the feet then movements using the arms.

Play Twister

Paper Plate Meals: Magazines for the children to cut food pictures from the food groups shold be provided. The pictures can be pasted on a paper plate to represent a balanced meal.

Handy Book: On a piece of folded construction paper trace a child's hand. Cut out the hand, leaving the fold uncut. You end up with a hand-shaped booklet that will open up.

Place small amounts of paint in shallow containers. Let the children decorate their hand books by doting their thumb or fingers with paint making thumb prints or finger prints.

Print each child's name on the outside of the book.

Body Tracing: Have each child to lie on a large piece of paper. Trace the child's body and let each child decorate his/her tracing.

Body Book: Direct the children to find and cut out pictures of a specific body part from magazines. Select a different body part each day. Glue pictures to a sheet of paper, using one page for eyes, one page for mouths, one page for hands, and so on. Let the children write or dictate captions for the pages. Conclude the book with a few pages of whole bodies.

Add shampoo or dish detergent to the sensory table.

Have the children find different parts of their body. As a group, count how many of each part you have. For example, a child might say "fingernails". All of the group will find their fingernails and count them

Say riddles to the children such as, "I'm thinking of the body part that you put your socks and shoes over. What is it?" or "It's on your face. You use it to eat and talk with. What is it?"

Have a child come to the front of the circle. Have him/her stand still. Then whisper a body part to him/her. All of the children should watch carefully. S/he briefly moves that part and then stands quietly again. The children call out which body part s/he moved.