Teaching preschoolers about the 5 senses is so much fun! You can do so many different activities, but to make things easy for you, I am sharing my favorites from my 5 Senses Weekly Curriculum.

Kids will LOVE this silly 5 Senses Activity as they learn using the FREE printable 5 senses spinner.

Our theme this week was "Our Five Senses" and we focused on the letter B and the shape circle. We read this week: Ferdinand by Munro Leaf Paddington by Mark Brown Paddington and the Busy Bee Carnival by Mark Brown The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Stellaluna by Janelle Cannon Our question of the week was "What is something that you are really good at?" For our theme of the week, we talked a lot about our senses, what they help us do and why we need them. We made texture collages: This week is full of some of my favorite activities from the year, these texture collages being one of them. I love how each one is different, and the kids are so proud of the texture choices that they make. AND they look amazing on the wall. We tasted sweet, salty and sour things, and the kids had to vote on their favorite taste. (They think it's awesome when they get to eat things as part of a project.) We tested their sense of smells with this project where I asked them to describe the things that they were smelling. I used perfume, shampoo, chocolate syrup, pickle juice, toothpaste and (the most tricky) water. Out on our schools nature trail we talked about the different sounds that we could hear. We did this at various points of our walk, close to the school, by the parking lot and deeper in the woods. Lastly we did another activity with the sense of touch. I set up my table with different texture objects. I used flour, rice, oatmeal, sand and a scrubbing sponge. As the students felt each thing, I asked them to describe what they were feeling. It was hard to get them away from just telling them what the items were and to use describing words, but we got there in the end. For our shape of the week, the kids practiced drawing circles with this cool worksheet of circles and another with squares and circles. We also worked on recognizing circles out of other shapes. We talked a lot about things that are circles. We sang the song "This is a circle, this is a circle. How can you tell? How can you tell? It goes round and round, No end can be found, It's a circle, it's a circle." -Found Here For our letter activities, we used our handwriting sheet for the letter B, the sheet that helps work on letter recognition, both were mentioned in the "All About Me" post. The students also wrote in their journals for the letter B. We turned B's into Bees! After we read Ferdinand we all made our own bees. This was a great way for the kids to practice their cutting skills. I love how each child's bee is different. Another project that we did (another one of my favorites all year) is the Boat Builder activity. I love it because I give the students the materials and the end result is something completely their own. Each child got a piece of white paper, a square of brown paper, a skinny black rectangle, scissors, a glue stick and crayons with the instruction of make me a boat however you want to. (They love when I say that). If I get "I don't know how..." or " I can't do it.." We go back a few steps and talk about boats.. what do they look like, where do we find them, what do they do, and then the creative juices start flowing. Here's the end results! Love it! For our Alphabet wall we made butterflies with coffee filters and water color paint. After the children painted their coffee filters and they dried I used small pipe cleaners to turn them into butterflies! And with the B addition, our wall now looks like... Our list for words beginning with B's was very impressive. Here it is! As a side note, teachers always need to be flexible, and as such, it was in the best interest of the flow of the classroom to switch two centers, the library and dramatic play center. And I'm always telling the kids to make sure that they turn off the water faucet after getting a drink or washing their hands. I tell them to "Save the water for the fishes, so I painted a mural for above the sink to remind them. Up next week: The letter C, Triangles and "Our Feelings".

Smells like snack time! Yes, we’re still talking about our 5 senses around here, and now we’re exploring our sense of smell. I put together this little smelling guessing game for the bo…

Are you teaching the 5 Senses to your kids? Today I am walking you through how to teach the sense of smell to your preschool aged kids! From silly scents to fun crafts, I promise your little ones will love these activities!

Add elements of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell to your preschool centers to integrate science and play while students explore their senses.

This week we will be really focusing on the 5 senses in my classroom. I am so excited about this! We began last week with talking and readin...

Happy day five of our 5 senses week! Today is all about the sense of hearing. Here are a couple fun activities I like to do to teach the sense of hearing to my preschoolers.

This week in tot school we are talking about the FIVE SENSES. I had so many ideas for this theme that I almost finished the lesson plan in about 20 minutes with just ideas that

When kids study the 5 senses, they learn more about the world around them. These 5 senses sorting mats are great for leaning about the senses!

Teach kindergarten science students to explore the world around them with these hands-on experiments, projects, and activities.

These 5 senses STEM activities are a great way to engage your homeschooler in a hands-on learning experience. Perfect for your homeschool five senses lesson.

This printable book of the Five Senses helps kids think about how they use each of their senses. You can use this book as a review after teaching the

These 5 Senses Activities for Preschoolers will get little learners exploring science using all five senses.

We spent a lot of time exploring with our 5 senses. Here are few things we glued into our science journals. We sorted things that we see, h...

Learning about the 5 senses is such a fun preschool theme. I loved coming up with all kinds of ways to capitalize on Madelynn’s curiosity through fun science explorations. Here were our plans for our 5 Senses theme: And here are the details for each activity: 5 Senses Book: Smelling This week I chose […]

Food taste tests are a fun way to teach a preschooler about the sense of taste! Fill a muffin tin with different types of foods and have them "taste" which flavors are sweet, salty, spicy, and sour.

Use the five senses in the spring time printable worksheet to encourage your child to explore the 5 senses by describing what they hear, see, touch, taste and smell during the spring time.

We just finished up our 5 senses unit last week. This was the first time I used this product to teach about the 5 senses and it went SO well! I am so excited with how everything turned out. First we started off with some labeling and picture sorting with a mini-lesson. My artistically talented ... Read More about My 5 Senses

FREE printable 5 senses puppets for kids to color in! Learn about smell, sight, touch, taste, & hearing. Great for toddlers, preschool, and kindergarten.

Grab the printable and make this fun 5 senses sorting activity for your little one. Suits Toddlers, Preschoolers and Kindergarteners. This is an easy and fun educational activity for the kids to learn the five senses.👉 Includes 5 senses sorting cards👉 Includes 5 pictures for each sense👉 DIMENSIONS for sorting cards: 8" approximately 👉 DIMENSIONS for pictures: 1.8" approximately👉 Print, cut, laminate, cut again and then attach sticky dots. ❤️ NOTE ❤️👉 Please note that this is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD (PDF FILE), so no physical product will be mailed to you. 👉 Please use "Adobe Acrobat Reader" to open and print the PDF files(Applies to any device). If not, the pages might not print properly. Download the FREE software here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/ ❤️ HOW TO DOWNLOAD ❤️After your purchase, you will see a Download page where you can download all the files associated with your order. You will also receive an Email with the download link.

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5 Senses activities for preschool. Kids will learn more about 5 senses with these free printable activity sheets. 5 Senses activities for preschool Download 5

Looking for some 5 senses coloring pages for your young kids? Check out this free printable packet of coloring pages and worksheets! Full of all things sight, taste, touch, hear, and smell! Customize the book to fit the ages and needs of your kids.

Revise to learn a lot of useful adjectives to talk about the 5 senses Learn and practise: The five senses from afrimogo ...

Sense of touch activities are GREAT for toddlers, preschoolers. With this Sensory Walk, kids will explore the sense of touch using their feet.

Every year it seems that I have a good bit of students who don’t have ANY books at home to read. It makes me so sad! I know this is often the case in a lot of classrooms, so I wanted to change that. I make copies of recording sheets or worksheets, so why not ... Read More about Spring 5 Senses Mini Book FREEBIE

5 Senses activities for preschool. Kids will learn more about 5 senses with these free printable activity sheets. 5 Senses activities for preschool Download 5

Make your own scratch and sniff name art with just 2 simple ingredients! What a great literacy and 5 senses activity for preschoolers!

Welcome to our 5 Senses theme Planning post and welcome to Mac-n-Taters. If you are new here and you are interested in our units, you can check out all our current themes on our theme landing page. You will be able to find all the information you need to get started with us, as well as find all our themes in one place. In the download below you will find a one week, 5 day unit that includes a read aloud, literacy, math, art/other, science, and journal activity for each day and one weekly sensory bin idea all for our preschool aged kiddos. A description of the activities is also included in the download. Also included is a 5 day Tot School plan which includes a read aloud (typically the same as the preschool read aloud), a fine motor and gross motor activity for each day of the week and one weekly sensory bin idea. A printable Bible verse is also included. We will be using our 5 Senses Flip Book and 5 Senses sorting activities throughout the week. If you need to purchase any items for this unit, you can find a comprehensive supply list of things that we use and love on our homeschool supply list post. Or you can check out our absolute MUST HAVES. +Sandpaper +Bells +wooden cookie set Here are some other resources you may find helpful and can use in a variety of different ways. Themed Vocabulary Cards Growing Bundle Themed Letter, Number, Shape Cards Alphabet Mats & Activities Bundle Number Mats & Activities Bundle Keep updated by following along on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest) and join our facebook group below to be the first to know when new items are posted. We would love to have you join the tot school and preschool conversation over in our Tot School and Preschool Facebook group where we can talk all things tot school, preschool and curriculum and help and encourage one another on our journey through home tot school and preschool and parenting a toddler and preschooler. We will be sharing a look into our daily activities in the group, as well as answering any questions you may have along the way. There may even be some group only freebies in the future that you will not want to miss. Hop over and join us!!! For More themes and posts as they are posted you can check out our Themes Page. We post regularly to our @macntaters_playlearngrow instagram page and would love to have you follow our adventures. We will use the hashtag #mntpreschool and #mnttotschool to keep track of all our learning fun. If, at any time, you have a question about what something is or need help with a supply for something we are doing, do not hesitate to send us an email or message via social media and we would be more than happy to help you out. You can also ask in the Facebook group. ******************************

Hey all! Today I want to show you what’s included in my 5 Senses Flip and Flap Book packet! The 5 Senses packet contains five flip books, one for each of the 5 senses in color and black & white. Each booklet is accompanied by 2 worksheets for differentiation purposes; the first asks children to […]

We hope your learners enjoy learning about the five senses of our body with this Five Sense Clip Cards Freebie printable.

Our five senses tot school unit was full of exploration and learning. We had so much fun learning about our sense of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch that big sister Madelynn even joined us for a lot of our activities. Here were our plans for 5 Senses Week: And here are the details of […]

This science center display explores water and sound. To make this display, I used glass vases from a craft store ($0.99 each). I added liquid

I received such a great response from this post, I created a Five Senses Unit using many of the ideas below (plus a few more)! You can find out more about it here Don't miss the freebie! Or purchase it here We had a great week learning about our five senses! I started using science journals this year and so far I am loving them! It's such a great way for all my students to be able to participate during our large group time. During our large group time, we drew our five senses in our journals. Nose - Smell We explored smelly jars for our sense of smell. The jars are really simple. You can use film canisters, baby food jars, or empty spice containers. Place a cotton ball in the film canister and then drop a few drops of "scent". I used cinnamon, chicken bullion, peppermint extract, chocolate, perfume, and vanilla. Eyes - See We explored the outdoors using our sense of sight. I had my students draw what they could see. We talked about what color the grass is and what color we would use to draw it in our journals, etc. Ears - Hear We played a smartboard game to explore our sense of hearing. It was really simple. I just went into Microsoft Powerpoint and used the sounds already in the program. On the first page I put a sound, then on the next page I put a picture of what makes that sound. I added about 10 sounds, which was the perfect amount for the attention span of my kiddos. After I played a sound, the kids tried to guess what makes that sound. Skin - Feel We added different textures to a hand cut out for the sense of touch. I got this great idea from pinterest of course! I was really suprised at how much of a vocabulary lesson this turned out to be. I ended up sending the hands home with a note to parents encouraging them to go over the hand with their child and go on a "hunt" for textures around the house. soft - cotton ball (or pom pom as shown here) smooth - scotch tape rough - sand paper hard - uncooked pasta bumpy - rocks or pebbles (aquarium pebbles shown here) Tongue -Taste The last sense is taste. We talked about this sense some last week when we made our friend mix. We will also be talking about it this week when we make pancakes. We didn't get a chance to do a specific activity for this sense, since I was out of the classroom for meetings that day. It was a fantastic week. We really got a lot accomplished. I'm really excited to actually begin teaching! The first few weeks are routines & rules, routines & rules, routines & rules, it's nice to see the light at the end of the tunnel! We also focused on our names last week. I'll have to include those activities in a future post. Hope your school year is going smoothly.

Using our My Five Senses preschool mini book and some popped popcorn, you have a great activity to help youngsters learn all about sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. Make sure to check out more five

Learning about the 5 senses is such a fun preschool theme. I loved coming up with all kinds of ways to capitalize on Madelynn’s curiosity through fun science explorations. Here were our plans for our 5 Senses theme: And here are the details for each activity: 5 Senses Book: Smelling This week I chose […]

Learning, especially for preschoolers, should be a multi-sensory experience.

This week was fantastic! Our theme was the 5 senses. We tasted, smelled, listened, touched, and looked to complete our activities. Of course, we used shaving cream and scented playdough to help awaken our senses. Mr. Potato Head helped us label what body parts we use to discover the world around us. To learn about our sense of smell we soaked cotton balls with different oils/extracts/flavorings/powdered kool-aid and placed them in baby food jars. We had corresponding pictures for our little ones to choose from. Once the scent was identified, the little learners bingo dotted the square next to that picture. In the afternoon {our older pre-k learners} we also played a matching game with different scents. We paired up two of the same smells by placing scented soaked cotton balls in snack size baggies. One group of learners had to compare the different smells and find the partner with the matching scent. It was great fun! If you would like your own copy of 'What's That Smell?' Click HERE or on the picture. You can find the patterns to make your own 5 senses potato peep HERE. We also taste tested lots of different kinds of food, which isn't always easy for little ones! We were so proud of how brave they were! I found this idea on Pinterest and thought it was a great way to reinforce what we learned this week. We added textured wallpaper and/or sandpaper hands to show the sense of touch, bells for ears to show hearing, wiggle eyes, licorice mouth, and a scented cotton ball for smell. Boy howdy, did we learn a lot this week! Link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to show what you did this week. Thanks for reading! Have a great day. :)

Here is a simple science center set-up that is inexpensive (or free) and quick. This activity is an exploration of the sense of touch and can be used with