activity for children about digestive system

1. Your digestive system
breaks down ____________
so your body’s cells can use it
to make
_________________.
1. Digestion begins in your
________________, where food
enters your body. As you chew,
_____________________ mixes
with food and begins to break it
down.
2. When you swallow, the food
moves down your
_______________________,
a long tube that connects your
mouth to your stomach.
3. Your ____________________
muscles squeeze the food to
_____________ it into smaller
pieces. Chemicals mix with the
food and help break it down, too.
4. Next, the food moves to your
__________________________,
where _____________________
from the food are absorbed into
the bloodstream, and nourish
your cells.
.
5.
Next,
any
food
that
was
not
absorbed
moves
onto
your
_____________________________,
or
colon,
where
________________
is
absorbed
into
your
body.
Then
the
rest
of
the
food
leaves
the
body.

2. 1. Mouth
Name:
______________
The
Digestive
System
3. Stomach
2. Esophagus
5. Large
Intestine
4. Small
Intestine