You have five senses that help you learn about the world: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. Each sense uses a different part of your body.
Set up sensory exploration stations where children can see colorful objects, hear different sounds, smell safe scents, taste simple foods, and touch various textures. Have children close their eyes and guess objects using only one sense at a time.
Children sometimes think they only use one sense at a time, when actually most experiences involve several senses working together. Some children think their tongue can only taste and forget it also helps them talk.
You have five amazing senses: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching. Each one uses a special part of your body to tell you something about the world around you. Your eyes let you see colors, shapes, and faces. Your ears let you hear music, voices, and thunder. Your nose lets you smell flowers, food cooking, and rain.
Your tongue lets you taste things — sweet like strawberries, salty like crackers, sour like lemons, and bitter like some vegetables. Your skin — especially your fingertips — lets you feel things. You can tell if something is smooth or rough, hot or cold, soft or hard, all by touching it.
Here is the really interesting part: your senses almost always work together. When you walk into a kitchen and someone is baking cookies, you smell them baking, you see them on the pan, you hear the timer beeping, you touch the warm cookie, and you taste it when you take a bite. Your brain puts all five senses together to give you the full picture of what is happening around you.