Materials
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Instructions
1. Three-year-olds have a fascination with Band-aids and "owies," real orimaginary. Allowing them to explore the sticky qualities of Band-aids whileattending to their hurts and boo-boos makes this a favorite, focused activity.2. Tape a sheet of paper that is bigger than the child to the floor.3. Ask the child to lie down on the paper and spread his legs and arms a little.Trace around the child's entire body, including his clothes, hair, and fingers.4. Encourage the child to peel open Band-aids and stick them to the bodytracing. (If the child needs helps getting started, peel open the Band-aidwrappers slightly.)5. The children can also use crayons or markers to add features, boo-boos, orsimple scribbling.6. If desired, encourage the children to glue on yarn for hair and fabric orwallpaper scraps for clothes.More to doInstead of Band-aids, use address labels. You can decorate them with a few dotsin the center to resemble a Band-aid.Cut out a smaller body shape from a sheet of paper. A simple gingerbread manshape works nicely to decorate with Band-aids.
