There’s no “proper” time to start teaching the names of face parts to your child. In fact, you can begin pointing out facial parts even to a baby! Teaching face parts to preschoolers will become easy if you start when your child is a toddler. Introduce names of body parts on the face by pointing and talking about the them to help them understand it better.
Most toddlers can point to at least one face part by the age of 18 months, and by the age of two years, a child will be able to name different parts of the face with ease. Facial characteristics are easy for children to learn as they are most likely able to point them out immediately.
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Names Of Face Parts In English For Children
Do you know that face parts play an essential role in a child’s cognitive and emotional development? You’ll find the names of body parts that you can teach your child. Remember to show them a picture of each body part as well.
1. Cheek
Cheeks are the areas of skin under the eyes. Cheeks expand when we try to blow on something.
2. Chin
The chin is the lower part of the face, under the mouth. While wearing a helmet, one normally fastens the straps under the chin.
3. Ear
Ears can be found on both sides of our head. We can hear things and listen to music with our ears.
4. Eye
Eyes help us see things and the people around us. People have eyes of different colours, like black, blue, brown or green.
5. Eyebrow
Eyebrows are the lines of hair that can be found above the eyes. Eyebrows help to stop sweat from going into our eyes.
6. Eyelids
Eyelids are the skin above and below the eye that covers it when we close our eyes.
7. Eyelashes
Eyelashes are hair that grow at the edge of our eyelids.
8. Face
The face is the front part of the head that includes the nose, eyes, mouth, ears and other nearby parts.
9. Forehead
The forehead is the part of the face above our eyes and below our hair.
10. Mouth
The mouth is used to talk, eat and breathe. We have a tongue and lots of teeth inside our mouth.
11. Lips
Lips are the soft, fleshy edges around our mouth.
12. Nose
The nose is used to smell things and breathe.
13. Nostrils
The nostrils are the two holes at the bottom of our nose.
14. Teeth
Teeth are the hard white structures in our mouths. We use our teeth to bite and chew food.
15. Tongue
The tongue is the fleshy organ inside our mouth. We use the tongue for tasting, licking, swallowing, and articulating speech.
Games And Activities That Will Help Your Child To Learn Parts Of The Face
Here are some games and activities on parts of the face for kids –
1. Mirror Play
Stand with your child in front of the mirror, facing it. Now point to one face part at a time and encourage your child to point at their face part. This way, your child will learn easily about the facial parts, and whenever they look in the mirror, they will look at their facial parts, point at them and name them.
2. Learn With Rhymes
Children love singing nursery rhymes. There are various rhymes that are available to teach children about their facial parts. You can teach these rhymes to your child and make them learn the face parts. We have mentioned a rhyme below that you can teach to your child.
Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you’d be forced to smell your feet.
Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.
Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.
Your nose, instead, through thick and thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place–
be glad your nose is on your face!
3. Self Portrait
Give your child a blank sheet and ask them to draw their own face on it. Next, ask them to colour it and outline all the face parts. Now, encourage your little one to identify all the body parts, one by one, and ask them to write them down if they can. This way, they will learn to identify the face parts in the easiest way possible.
4. Follow The Instructions
Tell your child that you’re that you’ll say a sentence, and they have to perform that action. For example, if you say, “touch your lips”, they have to touch their lips, or if you say, “roll your eyes”, they have to rotate their eyes. This is a perfect game to make your child learn about the facial parts while strengthening their attention skills.
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