What is a good sences activity for Kindergarten?

Question

I teach Kindergaten and I need a good activity by tomorrow. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I did a variety of different activities with my classes...

For the beginning of the unit I always hide a popcorn maker and then begin to pop... we talk about what they can hear and smell. When it is popped I give them all a bag and we talk about what we can see, touch, and taste. The kids love it for an opening.

I then do touch. I have feely boxes with a variety of different objects in it. Soft, hard, rough, smooth etc. They have to try and guess the object. I usually always cook pasta (spaghetti) and have them touch it. They always think it is worms.

Then sight and taste. I use food colouring to colour sprite. I then have different glasses out and the kids have to tell me what each glass will taste of. We then talk about how sometimes things don't always look as they seem.

Then hearing. I play a tape with different sounds and they have to tell me what they hear. I often use different animal sounds.

The last one I do is smell. I put a variety of different objects in film canisters and they are blind folded and they have to tell me what they smell. In the canisters I put:
1. Onion
2. Perfume
3. Orange
4. Vinegar
5. Chocolate

If you had enough help you could do this as each a different centre. I always did it separate because I did not have the help.

Have fun!

Answer 2

Mix small plastic animals in a bucket of uncooked rice for a tactile activity. Put a dab of shaving cream on their table or desk to play with and feel with their hands and fingers. Take a pillowcase and put a few small ordinary items in it. Have the children identify as many items as they can by feeling the things in the bag with their hands without looking.

I would leave out any taste or smell activities unless you know about each child and possible allergies. Tasting or smelling peanut butter could be lethal for instance.

Answer 3

I have tried these ones out with my students in elementary, 1st and 2nd:
1.- Take a wire hanger and tie a piece of string on each end of the hanger. Wrap each piece of string a couple of times around your index fingers and cover your ears. Let the hanger dangle down and hit it against a solid object like a table, a door, or a wall. Because the string is taut and you are holding it against your ears you can feel the vibration it produces and it sounds just like bells ringing in your ears.
2.-Give each student a small amount of food coloring and a cotton swab and have them color the top of their tongue with it. When they're finished they can examine a partner's mouth with a magnifying glass and a small flashlight and they will be able to clearly distinguish the taste buds as small pink circles because they won't absorbe the food coloring.

Answer 4

Food activity with a variety of foods such as oranges, nuts, marshmellows, etc. They use smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing (crunchy).

Answer 5

cooking. it uses all your senses...touch, smell, taste, hearing (you explaining things) and sight. you can make some jack-o-lanters and roast the seeds and eat them.

Answer 6

Get a bag of M&M's and have them use their senses to describe them.

Answer 7

Teach them how to spell s-e-n-s-e-s.

Answer 8

what?