The Five Senses for Kids – Preschool Education

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In this lesson, children learn about the five senses—sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch—and how each sense helps us experience and enjoy the world around us. Through engaging examples, kids are encouraged to explore their senses and appreciate the different sensations they encounter daily. The lesson emphasizes the importance of these senses in making the world a vibrant and exciting place to discover.
  1. What is something you love to see with your eyes?
  2. Can you tell me a sound you really like to hear?
  3. What is your favorite thing to taste or smell?

The Five Senses for Kids

Hi there! Today, we’re going to have fun learning about something super cool—our five senses! These senses help us understand and enjoy the world around us. Let’s explore them together!

Seeing with Our Eyes

Our eyes help us see everything around us. We can see colors, shapes, and sizes. Isn’t it amazing to look at a big, tall mountain or a beautiful rainbow? Our eyes make it possible!

Hearing with Our Ears

Our ears let us hear all kinds of sounds. We can listen to music, hear birds singing, or even hear someone laughing. What sounds do you like to hear?

Tasting with Our Tongue

Our tongue helps us taste yummy things like sweet ice cream, salty popcorn, and sour lemons. What is your favorite thing to taste?

Smelling with Our Nose

Our nose helps us smell things. We can smell flowers, delicious cake, or even fresh rain. What smells do you like the most?

Touching with Our Skin

Our skin lets us feel things. We can feel if something is hot or cold, soft or hard. Have you ever touched something really soft like a fluffy teddy bear?

Remembering Our Five Senses

Now you know all about the five senses! Can you remember them all? Let’s try:

  • Sight helps us see.
  • Hearing lets us listen.
  • Taste helps us enjoy flavors.
  • Smell lets us sniff scents.
  • Touch helps us feel things.

Great job! Our senses make the world a wonderful place to explore. Imagine how different things would be without them!

Keep exploring and using your senses every day. Have fun discovering new things!

  • Can you think of a time when you used more than one of your senses at the same time? What were you doing, and how did your senses help you enjoy or understand that experience?
  • Imagine you are in a garden. What are some things you might see, hear, smell, taste, or touch there? How do these senses make the garden a special place?
  • What is your favorite sense, and why? Can you share a story about a time when this sense helped you discover something new or exciting?
  1. Sensory Scavenger Hunt: Go on a sensory scavenger hunt around your home or classroom. Use your senses to find items that match different descriptions. For example, find something that is soft to touch, something that smells sweet, something that makes a sound, something colorful, and something that tastes yummy. Share what you find with your friends or family!

  2. Sound Matching Game: Close your eyes and have a friend or family member make different sounds using objects around you, like tapping a spoon on a table or jingling keys. Try to guess what is making each sound. This will help you focus on using your sense of hearing.

  3. Flavor Experiment: With the help of an adult, try tasting small samples of different foods like a piece of apple, a slice of lemon, a bit of cheese, and a spoonful of honey. Describe each taste using words like sweet, sour, salty, or bitter. Discuss which flavors you like the most and why.

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Smile and learn! Today we’re going to learn about the human senses.

Do you see these flowers? Can you hear that song? Can you smell that delicious cake? All this is thanks to the human senses. Senses allow us to learn about the world around us. They collect information and send it to the brain.

Humans have five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. Let’s learn more about each one of the human senses.

Eyes are the sense organs of sight. Having sight means we are able to see shapes, colors, and sizes of the objects around us. Look at that mountain!

Our ears are the sense organs of hearing, and thanks to them, we hear sounds around us. I love listening to music!

The tongue is the sense organ of taste, and it tells us how things taste: sweet, salty, and sour. Yum! This ice cream is delicious!

The nose is the sense organ of smell, and thanks to it, we can smell things around us. This cake smells great!

Our skin is the sense organ of touch, and it allows us to know the temperature, the shapes of the objects, and their texture. It’s freezing cold! I got goosebumps!

Now you know the five senses of the human body. Can you remember all of them? Let’s see how good your memory is!

Finish the sentence: Sight allows us to ______. Thanks to our sense of hearing, we can ______. The sense of taste allows us to ______. Our sense of smell helps us ______.

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Thanks to our sense of touch, we can feel the temperature, the shapes of the objects, and their texture.

Way to go! The world would be so different without our five senses, right?

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