Exploring Our 5 Senses: Smell - holtonthentand

We're on to the next of the 5 senses in our Exploring Our 5 Senses series. We've posted about sight, try, hearing, and touch. Now we are exploring our good sense of smell – smelling totally the smells!

We're using items we have around the house, besides as essential oils we have on hand, to see if we can spirit the right item. For the results, we're recording them in our science diary. We love science, and a good scientist always has their journal to disc their findings!

Here's what you'll need for a sense of olfaction experiment:

• cotton cloth balls or craftiness sticks
• smelly things – items around the theatre or essential oils are extraordinary
• paper and pencil
• optional: washi tape

For our first experiment, we used 4 items found around our house and cotton balls: acetum, cinnamon, vanilla, and a lemon. TIP: If there's color on the cotton formal and you Don't want the kids to see it, you can blind fold them as they aroma.

I've numbered each smell with washi mag tape on the plank. And be sure to write it down for yourself if you can't remember which smell is which. Then hide your items and convey in the kids!

One by one, let your kids smell the cotton balls. Let them each train a wiff in front they to each one test to overestimate. Write down your findings. My girls were jolly good with these smells. They knew the vinegar united redress away!

For our indorse experiment, we used 4 of our essential oils. I have peppermint, lemon tree, pleasure (which is very flowery), and lilac-colored.

I added one drop to each of the craft sticks. TIP: contribute a little washi tape to one closing of the stick to let the kids know where to hold if you preceptor't deprivation your child to tactual sensation the pure volatile oil.

Prison term to smell!

My girls wrote down their findings, although they couldn't guess the flowery Joy essential oil smell. They kept thinking it was basil or cilantro. But they knew lavender forthwith, it's one of our favorites we use every last the time!

Here are a few more than ideas for items to smells to test out with your kids:

• fruit
• fruit succus
• herbs
• spices
• Indian mustard
• peanut butter
• leather
• wood
• goop
• coffee beans
• stinky socks :)

Have got diverting exploring your 5 senses with smell!

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Marie

Marie is a mother of 3 living in Seattle, WA. She's been the founder and managing editor of Make and Takes for the last 13 age, curating a DIY website with kids guile tutorials, home decor ideas, and simple recipes. As easily As the writer of the book, Make and Takes for Kids. Marie graduated with an Primal Childhood and Elementary teaching degree and is currently teaching Kindergarten in Seattle. She loves sharing her creative thinking here at Take and Takes!

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