During the first weeks of school is great time to do this activity. Have the children work in group of three or four. They will need string small sandwich Ziplocs and scissors. Let the children measure one another. Demonstrate with a small group first.
Someone needs to lie on the floor.
One child should hold the string at the bottom of the shoe of the person lying down. Another should stretch the string to the top of this person's head. I then place this poem in a Ziploc bag and the children can take home this string and share it with there family. Measure each child's height and make a green strip of bulletin board paper that height. Each child makes a flower with a picture of their face in the center.