Analyzing our surroundings

• Primary Education

Exploring our senses

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What's that smell!?

Fun Facts About Smelling:

Some animals don’t smell with their noses. A snake smells by flicking its tongue in and out of its mouth. A luna moth smells with its antennae.

Our sense of smell helps us taste! and they also bring back memories! 

Almost all animals have a better sense of smell than humans.

What is that Smell?

What is this Smell?!

To expand the smell test to other objectives, you can pick some other items for a smell test: garlic, coffee, bread, chocolate, lemon, orange peel, vinegar, ginger, black pepper, onions, cilantro, cinnamon, various fruits, such as apple, peach, banana, mint. All these are food, and safe for kids to smell and touch. Some non-food items you can use: dirt, pine needle, grass, leaves, flowers.
 Do the food hunt by smell. Collect some food and non-food items from the list above, and blind-fold them. Ask kids to smell each and tell you what they smell and if they want to eat what’s in the bowl. In the end, reveal the items in the containers, and see how many of those they claimed they want to eat are eatable.

Experiment 2

Another fun smell activity is to identify family members’ clothes by smell. Have kids blindfolded, and pick some family members’ clothes and let the kids smell and guess whose clothes they are. This activity will tell kids that we all have certain smells.

What does that feel like?

Introduce a mystery bag and put in 5 things in the bag that has different feels.

soft/fluffy-sock or any soft toy

hard- rock 

rough - a cookie, rope

moist - a wet bread

spongy - dishwasher sponge 

Ask students to identify these texture and tell what word comes up in their mind when they touch these things and what could it be?!