Five Senses Weekly Round-Up

The Five Sense is such a fun theme!

The possibilities are really endless.

So here are some other great Five Senses Ideas that I LOVE!

This is from a Greek Blogger named Maro. 

(If you can't read it click on the "translate" button at the top of the page.)

She explored the sense of sight, and touch on this post. She named this little character Ms. Touch.  Wouldn't this be fun to gather random materials to make into a Ms. Touch?

She also had some really cute posts on taste, hearing, and another sense of touch post here.

This one is from Just Deanna who made some simple eye-spy bags!  This would also go great with a transportation theme. Easy simple and cute.

This idea comes from One Inch World, she has an amazing blog and she does all sorts of art and sensory activities with her children.

In this activity she got out a bunch of her old spices, she watered down some glue, and let her children paint with the glue.  Doesn't that sound divine?

Although it's not a blog I love love love anything from FamilyFun Magazine.  They posted this idea on-line. You use fuzzy yarn and sandpaper to create.  Wouldn't this be a great way to practice letter or number making, or even a substitute for a geoboard?

Here are all of my posts on the Five Senses:

Sight:

Smell:

Hearing:

Touch:

Taste:

Here are my pin boards for the Five Senses.

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Five Senses Quiet Time Boxes

While we were learning about our Five Senses,

I made M.'s Quiet Time Boxes go along with that same theme.

It was fun for her, to have new boxes and to have them be about what the theme she was learning.

These boxes are A LOT more gender neutral, so I hope they give you some new ideas for your own quiet time boxes.

Sense of Taste Quiet Time Box looked like this:

It had anything to do with food in it, such as the Melissa and Doug cutting food, fruit stickers, Skittles, and a bunch of books about tasting.  Like Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti, I know an old Lady who Swallowed a fly, and Eating the Alphabet.

I did links on all of these so you can see what I am talking about,

then you can go to the library and check out the same books.

Our Sense of Smell Box looked like this:

It had our Scented Play Dough, cookie cutters shaped like food, scented marker and paper to draw,

and a bunch of scratch and sniff books. 

Such as, Little Bunny Follows His Nose, The Spooky Smells of Halloween, and I Smell Christmas. I got really lucky because my library had a few scratch and sniff books.

(All I did was I went on to Amazon and typed in "Scratch and Sniff Books" and tons of titles popped up, then one by one I searched for them at my library.)

Our Sense of Sight Box looked like this:

It contained all the sunglasses in our house :), view finer, her blue and red binoculars we made, Peek-a-Boo books about looking through a little hole and guessing what the picture may be.  I also included some coloring pictures of herself that I made by photo shopping some of our family pictures. (These were her favorite)

Our Sense of Hearing Box looked like this:

 

It contained: An old fashioned phone (does that make you feel old?) a book on tape, with a tape player, her tag reader, and some tag reader books.  As you can see I broke one of my Quiet Time Box rules, No toys that make sound.  But while learning about the Sense of Hearing, I figured I had to bend a few rules.

Our Sense of Touch Box looked like this:

 

Sorry, she's taking a nap with it right now!  I'll hurry and get a picture up!

It contains: Lots and Lots of touch and feel books, gloves, fake finger nails, and pretend nail polish.  Once again I got lucky at the library with all of those touch and feel books! Love the library!! 

As you can see I broke a few rules, normally I try not to use consumables like stickers and paper because it's hard to keep up on. I made some exceptions here because she will only use them for a couple of weeks.  Then we'll switch back to princesses and pinkness.

Here are my other posts for Quiet Time Bags,

and a Quick Quiet Time Box idea.

Sense of Sight

Learning about the Sense of Sight was fun,
especially since we did it on the same day we went to the circus!

First we read the book
Seeing by Sharon Gordon

This book is great!
Seriously, it is!
In the book it talked about how your pupils dilate when it is dark because they want to pull in as much sunlight as possible.

So I had M. put on my sunglasses
for a minute so we could check it out.

Then, we ran in the light bathroom and she could see her pupils shrink until they were very tiny.

We did this a couple of times because it was so cool!

Before learning time,

I had taped some colored cellophane on the windows so they could see things in in different colors.

Super easy and fun!
(Yes. Baby H. has a pen he's coloring with on the window.)

Then in preparation for going to the circus we made colorful glasses.
She could watch the circus in whatever color she chose.

Her cousin loved them as well!

It was such a fun little circus, because it was so small we could see everything really well!

Then when they tired of the glasses,
they made great containers to hold their Nerds candies.

Here are some other My Oatmeal Kisses Posts that also explore the sense of sight:

Mural Painting inside,
Where we went crazy with finger paint,
and later cut it out to make butterfly wings.


Let's Build A Rainbow!
Where we colored our own noodles and strung them on pipe cleaners rainbow fashion.

Binoculars

We made a simple pair of binoculars,

and went for a walk to try them out.

Shining Sun

Where we made our own shining sun.

Ice Water Balloons

Where we filled water balloons with color to create a wet fun time.

Playing with the Colors of the Rainbow
Where we mixed the primary colors together,
to get all of the colors of the rainbow.

Going on a Bug Hunt
Where we got to look for teeny tiny bugs.

Sidewalk Painting
Here's my recipe for cheap easy sidewalk paint.
Fun and colorful!
(I can't wait for summer!)

Have you done anything with light, color, or sense of sight?
List your link in the colors below and I'll add it to this blog post!

Here are all of my posts on the Five Senses:

Sight:

Smell:

Hearing:

Touch:

Taste: