For Grown-Ups
What you’ll need
Ask About Today
What are some things your skin can do?
Explore
est. 30 min
Elmo Learns About Skin
This special part of our bodies helps us stay safe. It even heals itself when it gets a scrape. Today, Elmo is learning all about skin!
Inside Your Skin
You’ve probably gotten a cut before. Did you notice how your skin healed? How did it do that? SciShow Kids explain it all.
A Visit to the Human Body
What happens under your skin? In this Magic School Bus story by Joanna Cole, Mrs. Frizzle’s class is going inside the human body to learn all about it.
Create
est. 30 min
Life-Size Self-Portrait
It’s time to make a self-portrait—as big as you are!
Toolkit Materials:
Grown-Ups
Unroll a long piece of paper or tape together several smaller pieces, so your camper can lie down on it. With your camper lying still (ha), trace the outline of their body. (Pro-tip: Tape the paper to the floor so it doesn’t get wrinkly.)
Kids
Color yourself! Draw your face, your clothes, anything you want. You can even include pictures of things you love to eat or do. It’s all about you.
Read
est. 20 min
I Am Perfectly Designed
In this episode of "Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices," Karamo Brown reads the story he wrote for—and with—his young son.
The Skin You Live In
We all have skin! Magical, wonderful, talented skin. Listen along with this special rhyming story by Michael Taylor, with pictures by David Lee Csicsko.
Move
est. 7 min
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Abby and her friends on Sesame Street are going to the beach. They’re going to put sunscreen all over their bodies! Sing and dance along with them.
Do the Hokey Pokey
Put one hand in and shake it all around! Join the Wiggles for this song and dance.