How to Teach the 5 Senses to Kids

Objective: The child will be able to identify each of the 5 senses and understand that each sense can be used alone or in combination with their other senses.

Ask the children if they know what part of their body they hear with? see with? smell with? taste with? and feel with? If they don't know, tell them the answer. Give them examples of things that you smell, like a flower, and say, "we smell a flower with our ____." Let the child fill in the blank. Repeat this activity giving examples for each of the 5 senses.

*Smell: Flowers, perfume, cookies baking, cinnamon (or other spices)
*Taste: Sour, sweet, salty or spicy foods: Chips, candy, honey, pickles, lemons, hot sauce
*Touch: Explore rough, smooth, soft, and hard textures with your hands
*Sight: Play "I Spy" and constantly reinforce the idea that the characteristics used to identify the objects are seen with they eyes, or sense of sight. (Have the child close their eyes and observe that their other senses are still working, but that they can no longer use sight.)
*Hearing: Make a book and paste pictures of loud, soft, high, and low sounds.

Each of the 5 senses has an individual lesson plan listed below, if the child is struggling to understand one of the 5 senses, you can follow the lesson for that sense, to ensure they understand it.