Gallon Guys 'N Gals

Gallons, quarts, pints, cups....oh my!
Today both of our classes learned about capacity and created our version of
Gallon Guys and Gals!


Our version includes a photograph taken of just the child's face!
After printing up the pictures in black and white, the student then used their face as the Gallon Guy or the Gallon Girl!

Look at me! I know all about capacity! :)

Here are the paper sizes:
*1 blue 12 x 18 piece of construction paper
*Body (gallon):  1 orange 6 x 8 piece for each child
*Upper arms (quart):  2 yellow 1 x 4 pieces for each child
*Lower arms (pints):  4 green 0.5 x 3 pieces for each child
*Fingers (cups):  16 small light blue pieces for each child--for this one I just cut thin strips on the paper cutter and took my scissors and cut them into thin pieces.

If your students are ready for a challenge (as my third graders were!), then have THEM measure the pieces!

This smartie is measuring the 4 pints that are 1/2 inches x 3 inches.

This student is working on the 8 pints!

What a good-looking group of gallon guys n' gals!

Here is the list of measurements: Look at Me! I Know All about Capacity!

If you do the activity, here's a header for your bulletin board!

Click on the title to print the file from google docs: Gallon Bulletin Board Header

We extended this lesson by learning about the customary and metric measurement systems.

The students created a graphic organizer and placed each unit of measure in the correct category: distance, height, amount, weight, and temperature. Check out the lesson here on TPT: Interactive Measurement Graphic Organizer

We completed this after reading the book Measuring Penny. Have you ever read the book? I love that story! Or any story by Loreen Leedy!

In this adorable story, Lisa has a very important homework assignment- measure something in several different ways. What did Penny select to measure?

Her dog, Penny!

 She has to use standard units like inches and nonstandard units like paper clips to find out height, width, length, weight, volume, temperature, and time. I keep on meaning to make a homework assignment based off of this book...one day...I also would LOOOVE to have a therapy dog come into our classroom one day and act as Penny....another day!

What an awesome, hands-on lesson that would be :)