I Can Be Helpful: Day Two

Clean and Dirty--Part One

Children will understand the difference between clean and dirty and practice ways of cleaning things up.

Book:

Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs: An Upside-Down, Turn-Around Bathtime Counting Book [Hardcover]

Carol Roth Jurgen Philip Philip Philip Kevin Kevin P Geneen Philip Philip Philip Marie (Author), Pamela Paparone (Illustrator)

Activities:
Clean Hands vs. Dirty Hands

Glitter Germs

Need: glitter, paper towels, hand lotion, bucket (to catch glitter)
Note: cinnamon can be used in place of glitter.

Put a drop of lotion on each child's hand and have them rub their hands together to spread the lotion out evenly. Sprinkle over a bucket a small amount of glitter into each child's hand. Have the children make a fist with the hand that has glitter on it. Have them spread their fingers. What do you see? Have each child press his hands together and pull them apart. What do you see?

Give each child a piece of paper towel and have them wipe their hands. Is the glitter all gone?
After using the paper towel, have the children wash their hands with soap and water. Did the glitter come off?

Discuss that the glitter represents germs (pretend germs). Germs make our hands dirty and can make us sick. What happened when they tried to get the glitter off with paper towels? What happened with they used soap and water? Why is it important to properly wash your hands?

Germs Away

Need: bowl, water, pepper, liquid dishwashing soap. Sprinkle black pepper in a bowl of water (the pepper represent germs). The pepper will float on top. In the center of the bowl add a few drops of dishwashing soap and watch the soap "scare the germs away"! Discuss the imporantance of using soap when washing hands.

Spreading Germs
Need: Spray bottle, food color, water, white paper, tissue

Show how germs spread with a spray bottle. Add green food coloring water in a spray bottle. Squirt the water (sneeze) onto white paper to show how germs spread when you sneeze. Then take a tissue and cover the nozzle of the spray bottle. Spray again (sneeze). When you cover your mouths the germs go on the issue instead of all over.

Hand Washing/Slippery Soap: Practice proper hand-washing technique. Let children play with a bar of soap. Rub slippery soap through his fingers and let him try to hold on to the soap! When hands are all soapy, talk about how we need to get our hands CLEAN. Sing a song, like the ABC song, or this one:

This Is the Way
(Tune: "Here We Go 'Round The Mulberry
Bush.")
This is the way we wash our hands,
Wash our feet, wash our hands.
This is the way we wash our hands,
so early in the morning.

Let's Get Dirty--Let child play with something messy, such as dirt, mud, or pudding. Say "Let's get dirty," and help him cover both sides of his hands. When he's finished playing, say, "your hands are SO dirty, let's wash them." Washing hands very well and make a point of saying, "Wow! You're hands are SO clean now!"



Veggie Wash--Have child help you wash dirty vegetables like carrots or potatoes with water and toothbrushes. Reinforce "clean" and "dirty."


We can be helpful by keeping things clean!