The Business of Bones

 The business of bones is funny.  At least I can say that now that we are in our fourth week with our girl and her SECOND broken arm in a year!

One of our Dad's offered to come in a cast arms for the children and talk about bones and why you would need a cast.  It was so much fun and it tied in beautifully with our class looking at X-rays of the human Skeleton.

 Dr. M put plaster on arms while the children generally played in the water and watched the process.  I think Dr. M had as much fun as the children that day.  One after one they all lined up to have a cast put on their arm.

Once the casting was done, we drew and signed each others cast!

Then they were cut off and saved to go home and played with.

 As an extension on this work, I set up x-ray making at our art table.  What fun!

And so, my girl didn't think it was so rough to have a broken arm.  After all you get to be an artist 24/7 if you want!