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Sense Train

 

Materials

  • ~ 5 Boxes of Similar Dimensions
  • ~ Marking Pens
  • ~ Construction Paper
  • ~ Items for Boxes


Gather the five boxes together. attach paper wheels, paper chains between the cars and a smokestack to the first car to form an engine. Label each car and supply appropriate items for each box.

Touch - sandpaper, hair pins, chalk, fabric scraps, Kleenex, cotton balls.
Taste - raw carrots, grapes, bananas, lemon slice, pickle, cheese cubes.
Sight - colored pieces of paper, toy kaleidoscope, View Master, sunglasses.
Sound - whistles, bells, woodblocks, tape recorded with various sounds (animals, water running, etc...)

Let the children play with the various items in each of the boxes explaining to them how each of the 5 senses work.