Measuring Up

Toddler, Pre-K, K, 6 & Up

Another fun way to talk about growing bodies is to measure them!

I thought of a neat way for every member of our family to record our height, and to let the kids participate and compare each member.

First, I made a sheet of paw prints and I cut them out and taped them to the inside of a door from top to bottom. Then, I created a record sheet and we took turns standing at the door and letting our oldest child count the paw prints for each person. (We even added a space for Thomas' stuffed dog.)

Now, I could share a template for this activity, but your family would be different than mine as far as members, so use my idea and make your own chart. You can use just a plain old measuring tape and record everyone on a sheet of paper, or get elaborate and use a pattern like I did and make your own chart.

My Five Senses

Toddler, Pre-K, K, 6 & Up

This is another way to record your child's activity and to help them learn. I wanted to incorporate the Five Senses when talking about our healthy bodies, so I created another fun worksheet. Now, an older child can think of these answers themselves, but you may have fun writing the answers down for your toddler and hanging on to it as a sort of memory page for the week.

Again, feel free to use this sheet to print for your kids. I made one for a girl, and one for a boy.

My Body Can

Toddler, Pre-K, K, 6 & Up

My toddler and I are working on identifying body parts, and like most moms I enjoy recording all of the little things he can do at each stage of his life. So, I made up my own fun worksheet for us to do together, and for me to save!

He LOVED showing me what he could do with each of the body parts I called out!

"Thomas, what can you do with your hands?" He claps!


I have no idea how to embed a document into my blog, so I am just going to "snap a picture" of it and post it. You are welcome to use it for yourself and your own growing sprout. Click to enlarge the picture, then "save as" and save to your computer. You can put it in a Word Document and enlarge and print, or if you are better at using the picture printer on your computer--you can do it that way too.

I have included one for girls and one for boys.

My Body Theme

I found that trying to create a theme and come up with activities for my toddler may be fun--but it is very tedious and hard to execute. So, I will just add things to this blog as we do them.

This week on the Sunny Side Up Show, they were doing a body theme, and it gave me a few ideas to do with my kids.

Of course, I usually just plan for my almost 2 year old, but the 6 year old had just as much fun with them.

So, maybe yours will too!