Ideas For 'senses' Activities!

[Guest]

Hi everyone, was just wondering if anyone had any fab ideas on activities to do with reception based on the senses?

Thanks in advance!

[Guest]

Or rather activities based on the senses to do with reception!! Its been a long day!

[Inge]

I think a forum search will bring up loads of threads on the senses, in all areas... with many ideas to use or adapt... when I did it there were so many it was impossible to choose which ones to add a link for.

[Guest]

im doing senses over the next few weeks. im going to do things like plying hot potato in PD, my Literacy is going to be a reading focus as we have rigby star pink band book called the 5 senses, we are going to do food tasting, use the listening centre, we have some vortex boxes, a giant dark box, going to put touch feely books in the book corner, going to make tactile letters and numbers...and many more! hope this helps

[jayney78]

I'm also doing senses over the next few weeks, sight tomorrow: Using mirrors to look at themselves and talk/draw what they see, using magnifying glass to read names, CVC words, and recognise letters that are tiny on a strip of paper, blindfolding children and working together to get to a location. For smell, different smells in pots to identify and say whether they like or not, smelly playdough, smells in environment. Hearing: listening games -CD, making shakers, identifying which instrument.

Touch: feely pictures, textured playdough, messy play materials, feely box, textured paint, feely path to walk on, hand and foot prints, writing about what we can do with our hands.

Also going to do one session based on "Handa's Surprise", reading story and then feeling, smelling, tasting different fruits from the story.

Sorry just brain dumped. Hope some of that helps.