What you'll needAmazing Bone Facts! At birth the human skeleton is made up of around 300 bones. By...
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Dancing
Skeletons Cotton buds
Split pinsBlack card2 straws per skeletonPVA glueSellotape
1. Using PVA glue stick the cotton buds onto black card in this layout.
2. When the glue is dry, cut out the "bones" using the dotted white lines as a guide. Make sure you leave a little extra card at the end of each "limb".
3. Use the split pins to build up the skeleton.
4. Cut out a skull shape from a piece of white paper, draw eye and nose holes, and teeth if you like. Stick this onto the head and use sellotape to attach the straws to the back of the skeleton hands.
5. You can now use the straws to make the skeleton dance! Here's a spooky YouTube playlist of music your skeleton can dance to:
© C Hart, D Allwright & Z Toft 2015
How to do it
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Why not use the template on the next page to write an acrositic poem about a skeleton?
© C Hart, D Allwright & Z Toft 2015
SKELETON
How do skeletons call their friends?
When something tickles his funny bone.
What do you call a skeleton who
won’t get up in the mornings?
When does a skeleton laugh? Lazy bones!
He had no body to go with!
What’s a skeleton’s favourite musical
instrument?
On the telebone!Why did the skeleton go to the party alone?
A trom-bone!
What room can a skeleton not go into? The living room.
My jokes have all got mixed up! Can
you help me sort them out and match
the right answer with each question??
© C Hart, D Allwright & Z Toft 2015
Amazing Bone Facts!
At birth the human skeleton is made up
of around 300 bones. By adulthood, some
bones have fused together so adults only
have 206 bones.
The longest bone in the human body is the thigh bone called the femur.
Over a period of about seven years each bone in
our body is slowly replaced until it is a new bone!The smallest bone found in the human body
is located in the ear. The staples (or
stirrup) bone is only 2.8 millimetres long.
A human has the same number of bones in its
neck as a giraffe; they both have seven bones
in their neck - the giraffe's neck bones are
just a bit longer!
Which fact do you find most interesting? Which fact is most surprising?
The skull is actually made up
of 22 sections of bone. The
only section of the skull that
can move is called the
mandible.
There is just one bone in the human body not
connected to any other bone. It's a horseshoe-
shaped bone called the hyoid and is below the chin.