The Five Senses

A simple work to teach and review the five senses

Sense of Hearing

For this one we used stickers we made from google images printed on address labels.  Music instruments, a phone, a microphone, a picture of an ear and two different types of horns.

Of course since these were stickers they loved it! 

Sense of smell Mr. Sketch marker work!

During our human body unit we devoted a couple of weeks to the five senses.  The Mr. Sketch markers are a fond memory of my elementary days so I made a work out of it!  We got the basic pack of 12 markers and printed out real images of each food they represented.  On the back of each card I used the matching marker to make a dot of color for control of error.  Then I made a black line image of each fruit for them to make their own booklet.

This is how they set it out.

After matching and self correcting each one to the color coding on the back of each card they could make a book using the smelly markers!  They really do smell even when on the paper!  The older child also wrote the name of the food on each page.  We were sure to tell them not to put the marker on their nose or they'd have a mark!

Because the markers are so strong I grouped the 12 papers together with a paperclip and they colored each one separately on an art mat, so that the color wouldn't bleed on to the one behind it.  They stapled it once they were done.

Sense of taste

For our sense of taste we first did a taste test at circle with sweet, sour, bitter, and salty foods!  Sweet was sugar cubes, salty was pretzels, sour was small lemon slices,and bitter was 100% dark chocolate!  They were so excited about the chocolate and I did warn them to take a tiny bite, but they just couldn't help themselves!  We saw some pretty good bitter faces!!

They then glued each food to the paper labeled 'My sense of taste'.  We lucked out and found fake lemon slices at Michaels and cut them in to fourths!  Much easier than gluing a real lemon slice!

Sense of smell

For the sense of smell work we got creative!  The rose petal is silk (a box from Michaels in the wedding section) and we sprinkled rose essential oil on to make it really smell!  The brown circle is cinnamon.  I put circles of glue on waxed paper and sprinkled cinnamon on it and let it dry for two days- worked great!  The cedar is cut from a tree on our playground, and of course coffee beans!

Sense of Sight

For Sense of sight we decided to go with all the rainbow colors!  We discussed at circle all the different things we can see with our eyes and how important they are!  

Some children glued random colors all over the paper practicing their one-to-one correspondence and the skill of using small glue dots, while others glued rainbows like this one :)

Sense of Touch

For the 5 Senses we focused on one each week.  For the sense of touch we put out objects representing soft, hard, fluffy, pokey, and rough.  Feathers, small rocks, beans, cotton balls, and sand were on the tray.  (I ended up switching to actual sandpaper instead of sprinkling sand to avoid the mess).

They glued each item on a piece of paper labeled "My Sense of Touch". 

 We hung them up on the wall under 'Our sense of touch' to display for the month!

All these senses activities were loved and well used throughout our human body unit!