The Five Senses

This week we did a bilingual unit on the Five Senses.

Here is our five senses tray (well, with four of the senses). We have sound eggs,
balloon squish and match, some color matching cards (for sight), and some baby food jars with spices (one has a cotton ball with a drop of vanilla on it). The baby food jars were meant to be a matching game, but Bear doesn't quite get the whole concept of matching the sound eggs, the smelling jars, or the texture balloons.
In addition to the Five Senses Tray, here are some other activities we did.

Hearing:
We played with musical glasses.
We played with Bear's maracas, tambourine, and bell bracelets. We made a drum out of a Nesquik container.

Sight:
We did a color swirl in milk - drops of food coloring, then add a drop of dish detergent and the milk swirls.

We played I Spy with her I Spy board.

I suppose any art we did also fits into this category.

Smell:
We made balckberry koolaid dough. This was also part of the sense of touch.
Taste:
Bear tasted salty water (salty), sugary water (sweet), lemon (sour), and vanilla (bitter). If she were older, I would have mapped this out on a map of the tongue, but I decided to leave this out this time.

Touch:
I filled yogurt containers with salt (small and granular), dried noodles (hard), flour (soft and powdery), rice (hard and grainy), and cotton balls (soft and puffy). After I introduced Bear to each container, Bear would reach inside without looking and guess what the substance was. She really enjoyed this one.

We did a fabric match of different textured fabrics as well.

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I also found a cute five senses song on you tube and changed the words a bit. I also translated it into French and changed the third line in each stanza so it would rhyme. It is to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell.

That was our little Five Senses unit.