Learning the body parts with monsters

Hi teachers, today I have some interesting activities to learn the body parts through monsters to share with you. They are successful in preschool and 1st grade, even though you can adapt them at the level you want by adding more or less difficulty. 

BUILDING A MONSTER: 

As you can see in the photo, students are given some body parts and a monster body. The activity aim is to build a monster to learn the body parts names. In order to do so, we have some variations or difficulty levels: 

a) The teacher guides them to create a monster  by saying them what parts of the body the monster has got. 

For example: "Build a monster with three green eyes, one mouth, three blue legs and two pink arms"

b) The kid builds his/her own monster and after that s/he has to explain to the teacher or their classmates what parts of the body his/her monster has got. 

c) Children work in pairs, one student gives the directions to create a monster to his/her peer. When they finish they change the roles. 

Skills worked: listening and speaking

Key competences into practise: 

- Linguistic and audio-visual competence

- Cultural and artistic competence

- Mathematic competence 

- Learning to learn competence

- Autonomy, initiative and decision taking competence

Multiple intelligences in use: 

- Linguistic

- Mathematical

- Visual 

Other vocabulary required: numbers, colours, adjectives (if we want to put more difficulty), ...

Expressions or verbs needed: "It has got..."

  

DRAW YOUR OWN MONSTER: 

In this activity the students have to imagine and draw a monster, they have to put them a name and complete the questions, answering how many eyes, mouths, arms and legs their monster has got. Moreover, they have to write a big and small body part their monster has got. 

Skills worked: Reading and writing 

Key competences into practise:

- Linguistic and audio-visual competence

- Cultural and artistic competence

- Mathematic competence 

- Learning to learn competence

- Autonomy, initiative and decision taking competence

Multiple intelligences in use: 

- Linguistic

- Mathematical

- Visual 

Other vocabulary required: numbers, adjectives: big and small. 

Expressions or verbs needed: "It has got..."

They really enjoy dealing with monsters and they have had lots of fun doing the previous activities. Children were motivated which is essential to learn English. In addition, they worked the creativity and imagination an important aspect in the society we live in. 

Emma.