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Milk Jug Skeleton

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We have been learning anatomy at our house lately.  We learned about the skeletal system and decided to make a fun project related to it. We saved up our milk jugs and made an awesome milk jug skeleton. The fun part is that this milk jug skeleton can also double as a Halloween decoration!

Milk Jug Skeleton

The inspiration for this project came from the About Me preschool book that we reviewed a while back.

To make this milk jug skeleton, you need 8 or 9 clean milk jugs. You will need to draw out the pieces on your milk jugs using 1 for the skull, one for the torso, the bottom 1/3 of the jug for the hips, 8 limb bones using the side corners of three jugs, and the hands and feet using the sides of 2 jugs. the shoulders come from the handles of two of the jugs.

skeleton from milk jugs

Terribly blurry picture, but I think you can get the idea…

Skeleton Learning Activity

I cut them with scissors, but a craft knife or blade might work a bit better if you have one. To assemble, hole punch the bones and tie them together with a little bit of string. To attach the hip bones to the torso, I cut four holes in matching locations on both of them and tied them together. The shoulders were hot glued onto the top of the torso. To attach the head to the torso, cut the top lip off of the opening of the torso jug. The head jug will fit into it nicely. Hot glue it to secure it tightly.

Skeleton Man from Milk Jugs

My little guy adores his skeleton buddy!

Skeleton Unit

Want a few more fun things to use to study the human body? Here are some of our favorites!

Print a life-Size Skeleton

Make a Brain Hat

The Rock N Learn Human Body DVD is so fun!

Me & My Amazing Body book

Cat in the Hat’s Inside Your Outside book

Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body book

Skeleton video on YouTube from Make Me Genius

 

Also, be sure to check out our STEAM Kids Halloween book!

STEAM Kids Halloween

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  1. Jennifer says

    September 18, 2014 at 12:20 pm

    Wow, that is so creative!! I’m always looking for hands-on creative activities like these, because my kids are really hands on.

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