Touch, Feel, Learn ~ Healthy Habits

Its time to explore the world around us and learn how to keep from spreading germs.

It seems like someone in our house has had a cold for the past month, so I decided it was time for a little reminder on some healthy habits like not sneezing on your siblings and washing hands (with soap). 

You’ll Need:

• Cocoa powder or glitter
• white bread or paper towels 
• spray bottle 
• tissues
• soap and water

We started out talking about why we sneeze into a tissue or or our arm.  First I “sneezed” (sprayed water) on Aiden and we talked about how this action spread germs.  Then I “sneezed” on Aiden’s hands

and had him shake my hand to show that my hand were now wet, which meant he shared his germs. 

  Then I had him “sneeze” into a tissue and shake my hand. 

Both our hands were dry ~ no germs spread!  We also talked sneezing into your arm if you don’t have a tissue.

To demonstrate how important is to wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds,  he rubbed cocoa powder on his hands.  I had him wash his hand with just water and then wipe his hand on a piece of white bread.  Hum ~ there was still a lot of “dirt and germs” on his hand. 

 

Then he washed his hand with soap (making sure he wash in between his fingers).

Clean hands!

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