{"id":3801,"date":"2019-10-19T00:56:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gosciencekids.com\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2019-10-20T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T00:51:29","slug":"skeleton-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gosciencekids.com\/skeleton-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make a Skeleton Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cool science craft<\/a> idea for kids – make DIY articulated skeleton’s hands, and learn about hand bone structure! (They make a great Halloween<\/a> prop too!)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

You might remember back when Jewel and I first made our DIY articulated hand models<\/a>? They were so much fun, and a great way to explain to Jewel how tendons work.<\/p>\n

My younger daughter Bumble Bee was too young to join in at the time, but now that she’s a big 7 year old, we decided to make another set, this time with a Halloween-twist!<\/p>\n

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Suitable for<\/h3>\n

This is a little tricky and will need adult assistance for 5-6 year olds<\/a>, but 7-9 year olds<\/a> might be able to do most of it themselves. Bumble Bee had just turned 7 years old here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bumble Bee was so excited to make these skeleton hands. With Halloween coming up, I thought it would be awesome to use them to wave to trick-or-treaters.<\/p>\n

Bumble Bee tells me she wants to use them as part of her DIY Dementor costume. (She wants to go as a Dementor for Halloween, and Jewel wants to go as Bellatrix Lestrange – they’re both a bit Harry Potter obsessed at the moment!) I’m not quite sure how the rest of the Dementor costume is going to work out, but we still have another week or so to work on the idea!<\/p>\n

Either way, I think these skeleton’s hands are pretty neat. And they’re a great way to learn what the bones in the human hand are called, and how tendons work to make them move….<\/p>\n

Here’s how we made them…<\/p>\n

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How to make an articulated skeleton hand<\/h2>\n

We used:<\/p>\n