Helping Kids Understand Personal Hygiene

Use a file to scrape under your fingernails and take a look. Point out that the view through the microscope shows what’s left after washing your hands. Take a coin and see what you find there. Pet hair is another good one. You don’t want to alarm the child, but finding some microbes does prove that, in the world of germs, all may not be as it appears. This is very important when showing kids why personal hygiene is so necessary. Now, go wash your hands!…