Five Senses Preschool Activity Plans

Description

Help preschoolers explore sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch with 24 hands-on activities designed to make learning about the five senses fun and meaningful.

This Five Senses Preschool Theme includes literature-based activities, sensory explorations, early learning games, art projects, science activities, and more. The activities are designed to be easy to prepare and simple to use in preschool classrooms, home daycare programs, and homeschool settings.

What’s Included

This is a digital download that you can access after purchase. No physical product will be mailed.

The Five Senses unit includes:

• 24 interactive preschool activity plans
• Printable activity materials
• Recommended children’s books
• Songs and circle time ideas
• Materials lists
• Activity modifications and adaptations
• Hands-on learning activities covering multiple developmental areas

Activities include opportunities for:

Literacy | Math | Science | Sensory Exploration | Art | Fine Motor | Gross Motor | Social Studies | Circle Time | Social-Emotional Learning

Five Senses Concepts

Children will explore:

• Sight
• Hearing
• Taste
• Smell
• Touch

Through hands-on investigations, preschoolers can build vocabulary, practice early literacy and math skills, explore science concepts, strengthen motor skills, and learn more about how they experience the world around them.

Activities at a Glance

Literacy

• Spiced Up Name
• Five Senses Retelling
• Play Dough Letters
• Which Fruit Is Missing?

Math

• Touch and Feel Numbers
• Sticky Hands Math
• Strawberry Seed Counting
• My Five Senses Graphing

Science

• Exploring Taste

Art

• Colorful Textured Crayon Rubbing
• Classical Music Art
• Five Senses Art Prompt
• Eric Carle-Inspired Art

Social Studies

• Taste the World
• Five Senses Nature Scavenger Hunt

Fine Motor

• Sense of Touch Playdough Activity
• Five Senses Collages

Sensory Exploration

• Guess the Scent
• Sound Matching Game
• What’s in the Sock?

Gross Motor

• Take a Listening Walk
• Texture Walk

Circle Time

• Five Senses Strawberry Activity

Social-Emotional Learning

• My Five Senses Journal

Recommended Reading

Pair the activities with books such as:

• My Five Senses by Aliki
• I See a Song by Eric Carle
• The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood
• The Listening Walk by Paul Showers
• Look, Listen, Taste, and Smell by Pamela Hill Nettleton

Flexible Preschool Activity Plans

The easy-to-follow activity plans include modifications and adaptations to help you adjust activities for different learners and classroom needs.

Use the activities as a complete Five Senses theme, choose a few activities to supplement your existing lesson plans, or add them to your preschool learning centers.

These plans are a great fit for:

• Preschool teachers
• Home daycare and child care providers
• Homeschool families
• Early childhood programs
• Teachers looking for ready-to-use thematic activities

Developed by teachers and parents, the collection includes everything from whole-group circle time activities to sensory investigations, learning games, art, movement, and independent exploration.

Build Your Preschool Curriculum

This Five Senses Theme can be purchased as an individual thematic unit or as part of our larger Preschool Activity Plans collection.

Purchase individual themes to supplement your existing curriculum, or choose the complete collection for a larger library of ready-to-use preschool activity plans.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical product will be shipped.