Daily hacks: How to make a skeleton model for a school project

With school children being back at school for the new year, assignments and school projects are underway.

School assignments that allow students to use their hands and create tangible projects are the best, because they are fun for students to make, and they test many of the student’s skills and capabilities.

Creating a 3D skeleton model for a school project will be loads of fun for your children, and this will help them better understand their own bodies and skeletal build.

What you need to make a paper skeleton model:

You will need half the size of an A4 white piece of paper, pencils, scissors, a paper cutter, and glue.

1. Start off by folding the piece of paper in half, and then cutting it into eight equal pieces of paper.
2. You will then take one of the pieces, fold it in half along the longer side of the paper, and then draw half the skull of your skeleton with half a nose, one eye, and half a mouth.
3. You then need to cut the outline of the skull, cutting out the eye, as well as the mouth and nose.
4. You then need to take another, fold it in half, and draw a pencil line across the longer side of the paper, followed by cutting small slits on the paper up until the pencil line. Don’t forget to remove the alternate pieces of paper which you have cut off while making slits on the paper.
5. You then need to take another piece, and cut off a small piece to make the piece of paper appear like it has four equal sides.
6. Double fold the piece of paper, and cut it in half to make four rectangular strips, which you should then double fold and then create small slits on only two of the separate papers.
7. Take another piece of paper, draw a pelvis on the piece of paper, and then cut the outline of the pelvis, as well as the two holes which appear on a pelvis.
8. You should then take another piece of paper, double fold the paper, cut the paper in half, double fold the two separate pieces, and then create slits in one of the separate pieces of papers to create the legs of the skeleton.
9. For the last two pieces of paper, you will fold them in half, draw a foot on one of the folded pieces of paper, and then draw a hand on the other folded piece of paper.

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Finishing off your skeleton model:

1. Once you are done, you will then use your glue to stick the hands on the arms of the skeleton, and then stick the feet on the legs of the skeleton.
2. You will then need a long, thin piece of paper, which you will stick all the separate pieces of the skeleton on.
3. Start off by sticking the skull at the top, leave a small gap and then stick the rib cage of your skull. On the rib cage, attach the two arms on each separate side.
4. Leave some space on the spine of the skeleton, and the stick the pelvis of the skeleton, and the attach the legs of the skeleton to the pelvis.
5. Once completed, you can cut off the tail bone of the skeleton, and your skeleton model will be complete.

Watch paper skeleton demonstration: