Draw Your Body!

This simple, fun activity for learning about the body can be adapted for kids of all ages. Young children can draw features like eyes, nose, mouth, nails, etc. Older children can draw body parts, organ systems or even bones and muscles!

What’s inside your body? STEM Challenge

You’ll need:

A roll of paper – something like this from Melissa and Doug

Felt tip pens

A person to draw around!

All you do is draw around a willing volunteer and decide what body parts you want to learn about!

Ideas for preschoolers

Draw around several children and talk about who is the tallest and who has the longest legs and arms, etc!

Children can measure body parts, too!

We didn’t worry too much about everything being perfectly drawn or placed, but it was a great start to learning about the locations of different organs.

My little girl chatted away as we did this about her ‘wires’ ( veins ) and the bugs in her tummy, which she hoped were awake eating her food. We spent a lovely half an hour just making observations, and it was great for me to get an understanding of how she sees herself.

Ideas for older children:

Draw and label bones

Draw and label muscles

Draw and label different organ systems

Draw and label parts of the body that help to fight germs.

More Human Body Science for Kids

Work out how many of your own feet tall you are.

Make a pumping heart model.

Discover why cleaning teeth is so important with eggs!

Test your reaction time with a ruler! This is a great investigation as you can investigate to discover if reaction time can be improved.

Make a model of how food moves through the digestive system.

Great for KS1 Science – exploring the body

You could easily adapt this activity for older children by asking them to draw and label major organs themselves. Maybe even plot the route of food through the body.

It also works well as a preschool science activity and for Early Years Foundation Stage.

Physical Development → Health and self-care → ELG

• Children know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe. They manage their own basic hygiene and personal needs successfully, including dressing and going to the toilet independently.

Last Updated on March 18, 2025 by Emma Vanstone