Flu Virus Stickers To Show Kids How Viruses Spread

One child in the classroom is given a stack of stickers of a little cartoon version of a virus. Maybe the virus cartoon character has a thermometer in its mouth and an ice bag on its head making it look like it's sick. Probably don't want to make to too scary. When a student gets a pile of stickers, they put one on their forehead indicating they've caught the bug.

This first child puts a sticker on his forehead, then splits the stack in two and shakes hands with two kids. He hands each half the pile afterwords. Then those two kids, after putting a sticker on their foreheads split their piles and give them to 4 kids who repeat the process until everybody has a sticker on their forehead.

This shows how quickly everybody can get infected.

If you want to make the model more realistic, and you have a lot more kids, you can have each kid continue handing out stickers which is the way it would really work.

Makes learning about how sickness spreads, a pretty important lesson, kind of fun.

Now if you wanted to give them an advanced lesson, they can give the stickers out to 3 kids and see how much faster it spreads by comparison. Have a nastier looking bug for that one. Maybe even have the various bugs feature a 2 or a 3.