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What you'll need
Cotton buds
Split pins
Black card
2 straws per skeleton
PVA glue
Sellotape
How to do it
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:
http://bit.ly/1MK1N7n
Why not use the template
on the next page to write
an acrositic poem about
a skeleton?
© C Hart, D Allwright & Z Toft 2015
© C Hart, D Allwright & Z Toft 2015
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My jokes have all got mixed up! Can
you help me sort them out and match
the right answer with each question??
When does a skeleton laugh?
Lazy bones!
How do skeletons call their friends?
A trom-bone!
What room can a skeleton not go into?
The living room.
What do you call a skeleton who
won’t get up in the mornings?
When something tickles his funny bone.
Why did the skeleton go to the party alone?
What’s a skeleton’s favourite musical
instrument?
On the telebone!
He had no body to go with!
Amazing Bone Facts!
Which fact do you find most interesting? Which fact is most surprising?
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 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!
There is just one bone in the human body not
connected to any other bone. It's a horseshoeshaped bone called the hyoid and is below the chin.
Over a period of about seven years each bone in
our body is slowly replaced until it is a new bone!
The skull is actually made up
of 22 sections of bone. The
only section of the skull that
can move is called the
mandible.
The longest bone in the human body is the thigh bone called the femur.
© C Hart, D Allwright & Z Toft 2015