Ff Five Senses
Letter: F
Number: 6
Shape: Star
Color: Pink
This is a fun packet for children who are ready to learn about their five senses. Children love to explore, and explore they will when they learn about the letter F, number 6, star shape and color pink. More exploring will be done by completing
activities that include the sense of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. They will make a five senses necklace, a gum drop structure, a cereal necklace, explore different types of glasses, detect smells, make a wind chime, make a tambourine, go on a
scavenger hunt, do taste testing, make a five senses book (pages included) and more.
There are not may worksheets with this unit because the activities are geared around the five senses and it is hard to smell or hear a worksheet. But they will have many fun hands on activities to choose form. So go ahead and have some fun! The
worksheets provided can be cut in half and made into a booklet when completed.
Letter and Number Activities:
Using the provided letter F outline, do one of the following, or make copies and do them all:
Fill the provided letter F outline with fingerprints. Press your fingers on an ink pad and then press them inside the letter F.
Use a small doll and fill the letter outline with feet prints using the same idea as above.
Make a footprint F, draw a large F on a piece of poster board, step in poster paint with your feet and walk on the F following it’s lines. (Best done outside with a handy hose ready).
Using the provided number 6 outline, do one or more of the following:
Glue 6 stars in the number 6 outline.
Find six small items that begin with the letter F in an old magazine, cut them out and glue them inside the number 6 outline.
Additional Letter and Number Activities:
Weather permitting, go outside on dry concrete. With bare feet, step in a bucket of water and make the letter F with your foot prints.
Do the same as above with your fingerprints on a dry concrete wall. Watch it disappear as it dries.
Place three identical items on a tray, place six other identical items on the tray, have the children identify which set has six items.
We have five senses, make up a silly sense so we could have 6.
Color and Shape Activities:
Cut pink hearts out of construction paper or poster board. Punch a hole in the top center of the heart. Write your name in the center and use a safety pin to attach it to your shirt or make a necklace out of it.
If Valentines Day is near, make some pretty heart shaped cards to share with people you love.
Learn where your heart is? Is it really shaped like one of the hearts you made in this activity?
Using sidewalk chalk, draw a large pink heart in the driveway, leave a kind message for those who might visit to see and read.
Cut out several assorted sizes of stars, make a mobile and hang it from the ceiling.
Make a large star from poster board, paste a photo of each family (or daycare) member to the star. Title it something like The stars in my family Our daycare stars Come up with something unique.
Physical Activities:
Jump up and down, do you: see, hear, smell, taste or feel yourself jumping.
Clap your hands: do you: see, hear, smell, taste or feel yourself clapping.
Look up and look down: do you: see, hear, smell, taste or feel the ceiling and the floor.
Close your eyes and stretch your arms out, walk until your hands come in contact with something: do you: see, hear, smell, taste or feel what you have come in contact with?
Sit at the table blindfolded, have an adult place a plate of something tasty in front of you: do you smell it? Bend your head down and try to take a taste, can you guess what it is?
Thread a piece of yarn through two drinking straws. Tie the yarn in a knot. Hold the straws as handles and immerse in a bubble solution. Slowly lift up and you will have a bubble sheet. Gently move your arms up and down and the bubble will rise and
fall.
Hands on Activities:
Five Senses Necklace:
Obtain five empty plastic film containers from a local drug store that does photo developing, white ones if possible, be sure they have the screw on lids. Drill two holes through each container near the top to thread yarn through.
In container #1 "Sight" place a pretty sticker inside on the bottom, when you open it up you will see something pretty. Or place the stickers on the outside of the container.
Container #2 "Hear" fill with beans or rice, when you shake it you can "hear" what is inside.
Container #3 "Smell" place a cotton ball inside and add a few drops of perfume, punch a small hole in the lid, when you bring it to your nose, you can smell something nice.
Container #4, "Taste" place a few small pieces of candy or nuts inside, you can open it up and taste something good.
Container #5 "Feel" wrap the container in sandpaper or fur, glue in place, you can feel something rough or soft.
String all five containers together, adding two or three large wooden beads between each container to keep them separated. Tie the string in a knot and you have a necklace.
Another way to string them together is to punch two small holes in each top
and string them that way, this will keep the string from the inside of the container.
You can also permanently seal the containers that represent hear, smell and touch, you could also seal the sight container if you put the pretty stickers on or decorate the outside.
Trace the child’s body on a piece of butchers paper. Give the child a green sticker and tell them to put it on the place where they have their sense of smell. Continue with different colored stickers until you have covered all five senses.
Sight:
Your eyes need light to see.
Your eyes each have their own view. Hold a pencil a few inches in front of your child’s nose, line it up with something vertical, like a door jam, this is best done by standing behind him. Have them close both eyes. Tell them to open their left eye,
where is the pencil? To the right or left? Now close that eye and open the other, where is the pencil? To the right or to the left? When both eyes are open your brain puts the pictures together to make a clear view.
Use your sight to create something pleasing to your sense of taste: Put assorted colors of Fruit Loops cereal on a string to make an edible necklace.
Use gum drops and tooth picks to create a structure or your favorite animal by connecting the gum drops together with toothpicks.
Talk about things we should not do that might hurt our eyes: don't look right at the sun, don't rub our eyes with dirty hands, don't throw sand in other children's eyes, etc.
Have the child cut pictures of things they like to look at from magazines: flowers, puppies, kitties. Glue the pictures to a piece of construction paper and title the picture "Things I Like to Use My Sight For.
Have the child look through sunglasses, magnifying glasses, reading glasses, a view master, binoculars. Have them explain how things look different with each one.
Use the provided eye worksheet, color it to match your eyes.
How many different colors of eyes are in your family?
Eat your lunch blindfolded, was it easy? What else might be hard to do without your sight.
Get a braille menu from a local restaurant, learn how people without sight read.
Use your eyes to look at something colorful, describe what you see. Is it round, flat, bright, big, little?
Blindfold the child, hand them their favorite toy, can they describe it by remembering what it looked like? You may need to help by asking questions.
Make up your own sight activity.
Smell:
Your nose can warn you of danger, it detects smoke and fire.
Use the provided nose worksheet, glue on pictures of items cut from magazines that would smell.
Blindfold the child and place different items in front of them, see which ones they can identify them by smelling. Good items to use for young children are: toast, toothpaste, hand lotion, oranges sliced in half, banana slices, apple juice.
Obtain several black plastic film containers and poke a few small holes in the top of each lid. Soak cotton balls with perfume, vinegar, lemon juice, shampoo, and fabric softener. Place each of them in separate black film containers, make two of each.
Have the children match the containers by their smell.
Use the provided flower pattern, color it and cut it out. Have the child spray a cotton ball with perfume, glue the cotton ball in the center of the flower.
Have the child try to guess what is for lunch while it is being prepared but without looking.
Go for a walk, what different kinds of things can you smell? Fresh air, pine trees, car exhaust, dirt, flowers, etc.
Use cupcake liners and glue them on construction paper. Glue several cotton balls into the middle of the liners. Draww green stems and let child sprinkle the cotton balls with perfume.
Make up your own smell activity.
Hear:
Your ears help you hear and they also help you balance.
What is the noise you like to hear best? What is the noise you like to hear least. Write them down for the child.
Have child decorate 2 tissue paper tubes, connect them with a short piece of yarn or string by making one small hole near the bottom of each tube, thread the yarn through the hole and tie a knot. Talk and listen through your funny phones.
Take four plastic Easter eggs, fill two 1/4 full of rice, Fill two 1/4 with buttons. Have the children shake the eggs and tell which ones sound alike. Other good objects: coins, rocks, marbles, sand, paper clips. If the child is older, you could use up
to twelve eggs.
Make a wind chime. Attach any of the following to a coat hanger with string. Sea shells, plastic bracelets, canning lids, any items that will make a sound when they touch each other.
Make a tambourine. Decorate the outside of two heavyweight paper plates, staple them together making sure to leave an opening to insert the noise making ingredients. Insert, either or a combination of items such as: small jingle bells, dry pasta, shells,
buttons, coins, small stones. Staple closed. Have a tambourine band parade.
Use the ear worksheet, glue on pictures of items that make noise.
Make up your own hearing activity.
Touch:
You feel things outside your body with your skin. This is called your sense of touch. It tells you when things are warm, cold, soft, hard.
Make texture books from cardboard, punch a hole in the top right corner of each square (make about 5). Cut out squares of materials with different textures Materials can include felt, bubble wrap, sand paper, fake fur, and satin. Glue one material to
each page, then bind together with a metal key ring
Take five paper lunch bags and put one item in each bag such as, cotton, toothbrush, rock, tennis ball, sponge, pencil, comb. One by one, have the child place their hand in the bags without looking and identify each item. Have them tell you if it is
hard, soft, cold, warm, rough, smooth.
Variation: put all items in one bag, tell the child to find a specific item in the bag without using their eyes.
Have the child wear a pair of mittens, while they are blindfolded place an object in their hand and see if they can identify it.
Play with shaving cream, gradually add paint then sand. It is real easy to clean up if you do the activity on waxed paper.
Place several items in a zip lock baggie. Half the items should be hard, the other half soft. Have the children sort the items by hard or soft.
Fill the sensory table (or a large bucket) with sand. Hide several objects in the sand and have the child feel through the sand to find them. Objects could be: fur, bubble wrap, erasers, spoons, marbles, small wooden blocks, aluminum foil rolled into
balls, small toys.
Hold one hand in a bowl of ice for 30 seconds. Now try to pick up grains of rice. Your sense of touch does not work as well when your skin is cold.
Using the hand worksheet, glue on items you feel, cotton balls, sandpaper, fur, etc. (or pictures).
Go on a touching scavenger hunt, find the following: Write down what you find.
Something rough, Something smooth, Something cold, Something hot, Something soft, Something hard, Something wet, Something dry,
Make up your own touch activity.
Taste:
Your sense of taste is what helps you decide if you like certain foods.
Have a taste testing party. Have child choose several food items that may be new to them. What did child like the best? What did the child like least?
Have the child name their 6 favorite foods, their 6 least favorite foods. Write them down.
Place one of each on a plate for each child: lemon slice, orange slice, saltine cracker. Have them describe what they tasted by using the words: sour, sweet, salty.
Give the child three dixie cups. One with water, one with punch, one with cola. Blindfold the child and hand them one glass at a time, have them sip each one and tell you what it is.
Have the child make up a recipe, be sure to share it with others. Did they like it? What did it remind you of?
Use the provided mouth worksheet, have the child draw their favorite food on the mouth or paste pictures of their favorite foods.
Visit a restaurant that serves other than American foods such as a Chinese restaurant. Taste new things, what did child like, what did child dislike?
Songs
Five Senses (Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Eyes, eyes, eyes that see
Children out at play
Dogs chasing, cats climbing
You need your eyes to see.
Five senses (tune: BINGO )
There are five senses we all have, one, two, three, four, five.
See, hear, taste, touch and smell
See, hear, taste, touch and smell
See, hear, taste, touch and smell
These are our five senses.
Senses (tune: Row Row Row Your Boat)
Ears, ears, ears that hear
Busses going home
Cats meowing, music playing
You need your ears to hear.
Nose, nose, nose that smells
Flowers in the garden
Chicken frying, cookies baking
You need your nose to smell.
Tongue, tongue, tongue that tastes
Ice cream in a cone
Salty chips, sour lemons
You need your tongue to taste.
Hands, hands, hands that touch
Sand in the sandbox
Soft bunnies, hard rocks
You need your hands to touch.
What Can I See? (tune: If You Are Happy and You Know it)
Oh, with your two eyes what can you see?
Oh, with your two eyes what can you see?
Oh, tell me now what can you see with your two eyes? (have child tell you what they see)
Oh, with your eyes what can you see?
Oh, with all your fingers what do you feel?
Oh, with all your fingers what do you feel?
Oh, tell me now what do you feel with all your fingers? (have child tell you what they feel)
Oh, with all your fingers what do you feel?
Continue with the remaining verses: Oh, with your nose what can you smell? Oh, with your ears
what can you hear? Oh, with your tongue what can you taste?
Fingerplay:
I Can
I can touch with my hands (cross your arms and touch your shoulders)
I can see with my eyes (hand at forehead, turn head from left to right)
I can smell with my nose (smell a pretend fruit in your hand)
I can taste with my tongue (rub belly, lick lips)
I can hear with my ears (cup hand behind an ear)
Games:
Simon Says
Play Simon Says touching the nose, eyes, ears, mouth and hands.
Make up a game that includes all five senses. Or a game for each sense.