Welcome & First Project!

Welcome to this blog, where we will give you all sorts of easy arts and crafts projects for kids of all ages! Here is our first project:

How to Make a 2D Human Body Model

Materials:
large brown chalk paper
pink construction paper
red construction paper
brown construction paper
scissors
tape
glue
a pencil
a black marker

Instructions:
1. Get a partner who is fairly small to lay down on the large sheet of brown chalk paper. Make sure that only the part of his/her body on the paper is the head to the hips. While your partner is lying down, take a pencil and trace the contour of the person. After that, go over the pencil contour with your black marker.

2. Cut a brain shape that will fit inside the head of the contour drawing out of the pink construction paper. Glue the brain onto the inside of the head.

3. Cut a heart shape out of the red construction paper. Glue that onto the left side of the chest in your human contour.

4. To create the lungs we need several steps. First, cut a small 12cm x 4cm rectanngle out of the pink construction paper. After that, cut out two lung shapes also out of the red construction paper. Tape the lungs to each side of the rectangle (the rectangle should be placed vertically). Then, tape the top of the rectangle with the lungs attached on the top-middle of the chest. The left lung should be covering the heart slightly.

5. To make the liver and the stomach, cut out an oval shape out of the brown construction paper similar to what the top half of the digestive system looks like. Paste that slightly below the lungs and the heart.

6. To make the small intestines, cut out a slightly morphed rectangular shape from the red construction paper, and paste that under the liver and stomach.

7. To make the large intestine, cut a tubular shape that forms a semi-rectangle out of brown construction paper. Paste that on, making it overlap the stomach, liver, and making it surround the small intestines.

And there you have it...you're own 2D human body model! You can make your own alterations and have fun with it!

Eric AKA "Handy Manny" approves of this project!