Let’s Get Silly: Stick Your Tongue Out Day on July 19!

Let’s Get Silly: Stick Your Tongue Out Day on July 19!

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July 19 is Stick Your Tongue Out Day—a playful holiday that’s all about fun expressions and learning! It’s the perfect opportunity to explore tongue anatomy, taste buds, and the science behind our favorite flavors. Use this lighthearted day to create engaging lessons in science, art, language arts, and more.

What is Stick Your Tongue Out Day?

Stick Your Tongue Out Day is a silly celebration encouraging everyone to embrace fun, make funny faces, and explore the amazing capabilities of our tongues. It’s a great way to mix humor and education, sparking curiosity in students about how their bodies work.

Science

• Taste Test Experiment: Have students sample foods that represent sweet, sour, salty, and bitter flavors. Discuss how taste buds work and where different taste receptors are located on the tongue.
• Tongue Anatomy: Teach students about the structure of the tongue, including papillae and taste buds. Use diagrams or create 3D models for a hands-on experience.
• Fun Fact Exploration: Research unique animal tongues, like how giraffes use their long tongues to grab leaves, or how snakes use their tongues to sense their environment.

Language Arts

• Tongue Twisters: Challenge students to master classic tongue twisters like “She sells seashells by the seashore.” Encourage them to create their own for a fun writing activity.
• Idioms About Tongues: Discuss expressions like “hon the tip of my tongue” or “speak in tongues.” Have students write short stories using these phrases.

Art

• Funny Face Portraits: Let students draw or paint self-portraits featuring exaggerated silly faces with their tongues sticking out.
• 3D Tongue Art: Use construction paper to create crafts that model the tongue and its functions. Students can design their own “artistic tongues” inspired by foods or animals.

Math

• Data Collection: Conduct a class survey on favorite tastes (sweet, sour, salty, bitter) and create bar graphs to display the results.
• Estimation Games: Have students estimate how many taste buds are on the average human tongue and then reveal the surprising number (around 10,000!).

Physical Education

• Funny Face Relay: Set up a relay race where students make silly faces while completing obstacles.
• Tongue Trivia Chase: Incorporate trivia questions about tongue facts into a game where students run to stations to answer.

This whimsical holiday provides a unique way to combine laughter and learning. It encourages students to appreciate the fascinating aspects of their bodies while engaging in creative, hands-on activities. Stick Your Tongue Out Day is sure to bring smiles, curiosity, and a bit of silliness to your classroom!

Happy Stick Your Tongue Out Day! 🍩✨

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