What Stinks?
Common Hygiene Practices
Did You Know?
Ask/Tell A Peer
What Do You Need?
100

How many days does it take for a folded/wadded wet towel to smell?

What is 2-3 days (just 48-72 hours)?

100

What is the best way to clean your fingernails?

What is wash your hands with soap and water? Take a nail stick (wooden tip) and remove dirt and grit under fingernails.

100

What is a different term for the word hygiene?

What is sanitization or cleaning?

100

How would you appropriately tell a peer that he/she/they could shower within the next 12 hours?

What is....polite request to peer here?

100

What do you need to wash your feet?

What is washcloth, soap, and water? Pumice stone or non-sharp file also works.  

200

How often should you clean your sheets?

What is one week to two weeks?

200

What do you wash your hair with?

What is shampoo and conditioner?

200

How often did people on the frontier (pioneers) wash themselves?

One week and the children used the same baths as the parents after they were done

200

How would you appropriately let someone know that they needed to wash their jacket/hoodie?

What is insert polite answer here?

200

What items do you need to make a bed properly?

Fitted sheet, sheet, comforter or blanket, pillows with removable pillowcases

300

How often should you clean your clothes?

What is shirts (after one wear unless it's not sweated in), pants (after 3 wears if it's not stained), underwear (after ONE wear)?

300

How often should you clean your comforters?

What is two weeks to a month?

300

What is a chamber pot?

pot or container used in bedroom to use the bathroom at night

300

What kind of hygiene items could you ask a peer for?

Shampoo, conditioner, body wash. Anything unopened

300

How would you wash an oversized blanket or comforter?

Big washer or dry cleaning

400

How can you clean your shoes?

What is odor eaters, toothbrush with soap and water, washcloth and stain remover with water?

400

List in order what you should clean on your body in the shower?

What is head, torso, legs, armpits, under regions?

400

Where did people throw items from chamber pot out at during the times of the bubonic plague?

Out on the streets, often from their window

400

How would you let someone know that they had a booger or piece of food in his/her/their teeth?

What is polite response?
400

How often do you need to replace underwear or bras?

underwear-when it get stains or tears, or thin spots

Bras-once every 6 months to a year

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