Bring some fun to your jewelry making with this lovely idea of the straw earrings. So get your hands on the straws and cut small round beads out of them. Then using the jump rings and the earring wires you can make the perfect straw earrings for yourself to wear with your funky and cute tops and tanks. Details here!

Give your kid’s room a perfect mobile that you can easily make with your hands and using the easy things lying around. Using the straw and the colorful thread you can easily shape up this geometric mobile. Also, you can use the same pattern and design to make the perfect plant hangers. Details here! Have you ever heard your heart? How about someone else's heart? Doctors use an instrument called a stethoscope to listen to your heartbeat. In this experiment, you can listen to your heartbeat with a stethoscope as doctors use, or make your own simple stethoscope. What You Need:The kids had fun trying different activities from yoga and meditation to slow their heart rate, to running and jumping to speed up their hearts. EXAMINING HOW BLOOD FLOWS Your heart rate is how fast your heart beats. We measure this as beats per minute. The easiest way to do this is to count how many times your heart beats in ten seconds, then multiply the number by 6 (60 seconds in a minute) to get your heart rate.

Make the prettiest summer decors for your home with these plastic straws and the yarn plant hanging. The yarn macramé is traditional to use for the plant hanging but you can add more pop up of the colors and cuteness to them using the colorful cut out pieces of the straws to them. Details here! Whenever we talk about the heart the kids immediately run and pull out their stethoscope. They love listening to their heart, the dog’s heart, my heart. Then they run and jump and get all excited before listening again. Heart Model Video Watch carefully as you do the work of the valves as you pinch the straws. What happens to the liquid in the straws? Learn more about Heart Anatomy

Before each heartbeat, the heart fills with blood. Then its muscles contract and squeeze blood into the arteries, the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. The heart is a muscle, it pumps over 40 million times a year. Contraction of the heart muscle increases pressure in the heart’s chambers and forces blood held in the chambers out through the arteries. It is also possible to measure blood pressure, the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system, you may have seen this being done by a doctor. Other things to try… Starting it with these mystic candles straws, they are easier to make than you thought, attach your cylindrical straw-like candles to your smoothies straws and these will surely shine on your party tables. This is a truly inspiring and funny woven heart made with the straws for decoration purposes. Also, these straws can be joined together so closely to make a perfect flower vase, for this purpose you can select colored straws. Open some of the colorful straws to make them flat and connect them to one and another to make an animal key chain as you can see over here. This overlapping technique of the straws can make many unbelievable and absurd DIY projects. Push a straw through each hole so the end goes under the level of the ‘blood’ in the jar. Bend the end of the straw so they point down.

Deoxygenated blood—which needs a fresh supply of oxygen—is brought by veins in from the body into the first chamber, known as the right atrium. The heart then pumps the blood through the first valve and into the right ventricle. Then it is pumped through the next valve and off to the lungs through a large artery.

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The heart is a special muscle that sends blood around your body. How exactly does the heart pump blood?

We tried feeling our heart beat on our wrists and at our throat, but the easiest for the kids was to use the stethoscope. Begin by placing your index and middle finger on the inner wrist of the other arm, just below the base of the thumb. You may not be able to feel the pulse immediately and may need to shift your fingers until you feel a tapping against your fingers. Can you measure your own blood pressure using an electronic blood pressure monitor? What does each number of the reading mean? Compare blood pressure readings across your class and plot the data on a graph. Try taking the closed balloon valve off the end of the straw and pump again, what happens? Why would this cause problems if it happened in a real heart? Research leaky heart valves, explore their consequences and how they are repaired. Research how you could reduce your resting pulse rate. If you could reduce your resting pulse rate by one beat per minute, how many fewer times would your heart have to beat in a year?Human hearts have four separate chambers inside. This heart model pump shows how one chamber and its valve works. Now you can make the best cupcake toppers for the girls and they would love them. You need colorful straws, tissue paper, and then sprinkle to make these adorable cupcake toppers. The best thing about these handmade toppers is that they have a girl’s name tag on them too. Learn to make these toppers right here!