I hope you love your skeleton as much as I love mine. You know Why? Because your skeleton protects your insides and helps you move around. Without your skeleton we would not be able to run, jump, or hug our loved ones.
An adult has 206 bones.
The smallest bone in your bone is located in your ear. It is known as stapes and is the same length as a grain of rice.
Did you know that you have seven bones in your neck, a giraffe has the same amount of bones in its neck.
The most complex part of your skeleton is your skull.
Broken Bones X-Ray:
When you fraction a bone, your body begins the healing process immediately. First the blood clot forms at the site of the fracture. Did you know that your bones like everything else in your body is filled with blood vessels that bring nutrients to bone cells and take away waste. When we break a bone, the blood vessels at that site are also broken. The incredible thing is that within a few days new blood vessels begin to grow into the blood clot. The new blood vessels help by bringing repair cells.
When you break a bone you need to go to the doctors and your doctor will take an x-ray. There are two types of x-rays that are taken: anterior/posterior (front view) and latera ( side view).
If you have any joint that is dislocated then you’ll want to put it back as soon as possible. The cool thing is that fractures can be repaired up to 7-10 days after the injury has occurred.
What Bone is this Game:
This is such a fun and easy game that helps children memorize what bone is what. You can draw the skeleton system and simply label each bone with a number. Then make a border around the skeleton and randomly write what bone is number x? Use dice while playing this game. We have a magnetic white board so we bought a magnetic skeleton off of Amazon.
Parts of a Bone:
Did you know that until your child becomes an adult, they have cartilage plates in their bones and these plates let the bones grow. When your child stops growing, the cartilage plates are replaced by hard bone.
Even though the outer surface of your bones is hard, that doesn’t mean that bones aren’t alive. Bones are always growing and repairing themselves.
To help your child understand the parts of a bone you can create a model using rice Krispy. Use edible markers if you’d like to show the blood vessels.
Skeleton Hand
Did you know that more than half of your bones are in your hands and feet? Hands (27×2) and feet (26×2): 106.
What you need:
- hard poster paper
- straws
- hot glue
- yarn
- any kind of medium size beads.
- wooden chopstick
You first want to have your child trace their hand on the poster paper and then cut it out.
Next step is to cut the straw in different sizes. The thumb gets two small straws for the finger and a larger one on the hand. The rest of the fingers get three small straw pieces. Use super glue to glue them on.
Next get your strings ready. You want to tie a medium size bead at the end so that it doesn’t go through the string. Make the string long because that is what you will be using to bend the fingers and thumb.
Glue a wooden chopstick to the back side. This is optional but I find it helps keep that hand more sturdy.
When you hold the chopstick handle and the string, you will make different fingers bend.
Bendy Bone Experiment
Do you know what happens when you lack calcium in your bones?
To show your children how important calcium is, try this experiment.
You’ll need chicken bones and vinegar. You want the chicken bones to be dry. Cover the chicken bones in vinegar and let it sit for one to two weeks. We had two jars. One with simply water and bones and one with vinegar and bones.
The vinegar will turn the chicken bone soft and flexible. This happens because when all the calcium has been removed from the bones, leaving only collagen and the elastic part.
Note: ingesting vinegar does not dissolve our bones, only way is to soak the bone completely in vinegar for a week or more.
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