It should resemble a five pound bag of flour or sugar. Wrap the body in bulletin board paper. You may want to use pink for girls and blue for boys. Students use white construction paper and multicultural crayons to draw a head, arms, and legs for the sand baby. They then tape or glue the body parts to the main body.
Students can then move to math centers to continue their explorations with measurement.
To conserve time, it would be easier to work with about six students at a time in measuring the sand for the babies. Other students could work at the math centers or draw the body parts for the sand babies. Bodies Students lay on large sheets of bulletin board paper while other students trace the outline of their bodies. They then paint their shapes to resemble their appearance. When working with primary students, it may be helpful to elicit some students in the intermediate grades to help.