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a free worksheet: anatomy of the hand

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30 Aug

Our teenager daughter would prefer art be the sole academic subject in our homeschool, so last week I thought I’d encourage her to learn science while drawing. I asked her to draw an anatomically correct skeleton of the hand for you.

After research on all the bones included in a hand, she looked up x-ray images of hands to come up with this final sketch for you. I’ll share photos of her drawing process below, and will also include a link for you to download this free worksheet (or coloring page) she created for you!

Here is the original pencil sketch:

The pencil sketch was placed on a lightboard, and a new sketch was created — this time using ink and a calligraphy (manga) pen and nib.

She then scanned the ink sketch into Adobe Illustrator, digitally added boxes to make it easier to label the bones, and fixed one mistake (the missing pisiform!)

anatomy of the hand free worksheet | FreelyEducate.com

how to use our free worksheetS of the hand’s bone structure

For younger students:

Write the names in color pencil (or use crayons to color the boxes). Have your child color in each area the labels point to (following our lines).

For older students:

Simply have the older ones fill in the boxes!

anatomy of the hand worksheet | FreelyEducate.com

Here are the bones in a human hand:

  • phalanges (fingers)
  • metacarpals (palm)
  • carpals (near the wrist)

The phalanges and metacarpals are numbered, while the carpals are named:

  • Trapezium
  • Trapezoid
  • Capitate
  • Hamate
  • Scaphoid
  • Lunate
  • Triquetrum (note that I mislabeled this on my colored example)
  • Pisiform

download the hand anatomy worksheetS

To download the worksheets, simply click on the graphic below (or here), fill out your name (a username is fine) and email (which I, and only I will use, and only to occasionally tell you when I’ve created more things for you), and click Download.

Print it out and use it as much as you wish! The only rule we have is that you don’t sell it or post it (share this link instead, please: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lorisbooks ).

One worksheet has blank boxes for labeling. See above for the list of bones to put in the boxes.

free printable worksheet anatomy of the hand | FreelyHomeschool.com

The other worksheet (below) has the labels filled in already. Print this one out to help with labeling the one above, or use it with younger children.

WANT A PRINTABLE WORKSHEET OF THE HUMAN SKULL?

We created another printable for you – this time, a free printable worksheet of the anatomy of the human skull.

our homeschool’s artist

I didn’t get a photo of her this time, so here is a photo of our artist a couple of years ago. If you’re interested, here is how we Naturally Teach Art to Our Children (we basically let them be free).

here is our young artist a couple of years ago

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  1. Cheryl says

    December 10, 2020 at 1:12 PM

    This is excellent! Would this be the top view, or viewing the hand with the palm up?

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    • Lori Seaborg says

      December 30, 2020 at 2:53 PM

      Such a good question! She took several xray images as references and I no longer have them. I’ve had a difficult time finding the answer online, but did find this good resource for further study of hand anatomy: https://eorthopod.com/hand-anatomy/

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