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Description

Take part in activities that explore your 5 senses (All 5 Senses Tests)

Resources

Sheets of paper
Pencils, markers
Eye masks or neckerchiefs (blindfolds) if doing taste test
For taste test, different pieces of fruit on paper plates, dark chocolate/milk chocolate or Fair Trade chocolate

Safety note: please check in advance if any of your Ladybirds has an allergy

Instructions

Introduction
Ask the Ladybirds if they know what the five main senses are i.e. hearing, sight, taste, touch and smell.

Instructions
Take the Ladybirds for a short walk outside to discover what they can smell, see, touch, hear and taste. Leaders can prepare a different sheet for each sense. The Ladybirds can inform you of what they experienced on their walk while the Leaders record on the sheets.

• Hearing – listen to the surrounding noise (what can they hear, put it on their sheet)
• Sight – look around at what they can see (draw a picture or write what they can see on their sheet)
• Taste – have a picnic (describe what they are eating e.g. is it sour, sweet and put it on their sheet)
• Smell – what smells can they identify (draw a picture or write what they can smell)
• Touch – different items you could find outside - grass, stones, muck etc. (write it on their sheet)

Optional - If you do not have a picnic for taste test:

To test the sense of taste, when they get back into the hall, blindfold each Ladybird and let them taste different foods to see can they figure out what they are eating without being able to see. One of the Leaders could stay behind to set this up. You could have two different types of the same food e.g. chocolate v Fair Trade chocolate and different pieces of fruit that the Ladybirds might not have tried before.

Debrief
Did any of them use any of their other five senses (e.g. smell to smell what they were tasting while blindfolded?).

Tags

• 5 senses
• Hearing
• IGG
• sight
• smell
• taste
• touch

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