Learning about the 5 senses can be a lot of fun.  Below are some suggestions for ways to teach the 5 different senses

Sound

• Wind: Pinwheel, windsocks
• Running water: ponds, bridge over a wet spot
• Instruments: Bottle to blow through, windchimes, birdhouses & feeders to attract song birds, dry leaves, sticks in paper bags
• Piping taped sounds outdoors
• Songs which encourage making nature noises
• Play different notes on a Piano

Touch

• Plants that are fuzzy, sticky, rough
• Touch bags: put different objects in paper bag and have them feel
• Logs
• Sand Pit: Hide different things in the sand pit to find
• Walk barefoot: feel differnt types of flooring
• Leaf/Bark rubbings

See

• Rainbow garden
• Painting
• Paper binoculars: toliet paper tubes for binoculars
• Collecting Colors
• Color
• Maze

Smell

• Mints, candy
• Herbs
• Smell boxes: old spice jars
• Smell different candle scent

Taste

• Berries
• Mints
• Various Herbs
• Maple Syrup
• Honey

Do you have any fun ideas for teaching the 5 senses?  We would love to hear!

Ashley Myers