Five Senses Worksheets
Five Senses Worksheets and Printables
Our five senses are vital to living and enjoying ourselves. Use these five senses worksheets to teach children about sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
To familiarize very young children, even babies, with their bodies, simply touching your nose and saying nose is a good start. As they grown, then touch their nose and explain to them that we smell with our noses.
Repeat this concept with their eyes (pointing to the eye rather than actually touching it to avoid them poking themselves in the eye). Tell them we see with our eyes.
Then go through the motions with ears for hearing, our mouth and tongue for tasting, and our hands for the sense of touch.
To print the Five Senses Worksheet shown here, visit Worksheet Place.
Will You Be Teaching the Five Senses to a Child?
Red roses delight several of our senses.
What Are the Five Senses?
Here is a list of the five senses and a brief description of each:
- Sight: the ability to see. Our eyes allow us to see.
- Hearing: the ability to hear. Ears let us hear sounds.
- Smell: the ability to detect odors. Our nose smells for us. We smell with our nose.
- Taste: the ability to experience different flavors in food and other substances. Our tongue lets us taste.
- Touch: the ability to feel. All parts of our body are capable of the sense of touch. We usually touch objects with our fingers.
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The Five Senses
This book introduces young children to the five senses. Help your child learn and grow and learn their senses. Use the time to teach colors (such as, roses smell good and roses are red or yellow or pink).
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The Sense of Sight - Visit the Worksheet Place Web site to print this worksheet. Link provided below.
Sense of sight worksheet. Source: Worksheet Place
Five Senses Worksheets - Visit each Web site to print these worksheets.
- The Five Senses Worksheets
Hearing, Sight, Smell, Taste, Touch Worksheets. (These worksheets are shown below for the five senses.) - Welcome to Dover Publications -- The World Around Us! Smelling
The World Around Us! Smelling Coloring Book - Welcome to Dover Publications -- The World Around Us! Tasting
The World Around Us! Tasting Coloring Book - Neuroscience for Kids -- Eyes Bookmark
Eyes Bookmark -- You could laminate these bookmarks to protect them. If you do not have a laminator, you can sandwich the bookmarks between two pieces of clear strapping tape. Trim the edges of the tape and you will have a strong bookmark. - Neuroscience for Kids -- How Loud Is That?
How Loud is That? -- Noise Bookmarks You could laminate these bookmarks to protect them. If you do not have a laminator, you can sandwich the bookmarks between two pieces of clear strapping tape. Trim the edges of the tape and you will have a strong - What Do You See? | Worksheet | Education.com
Exercise your sense of sight! This drawing activity is a fun way to help little ones learn about observation.
The Sense of Sight - Help Children Understand How We See
Help children "see" with fun toys that they use their eyes to enjoy. A kaleidoscope offers a fun world to view that changes when they turn the barrel. Binoculars let kids see far away or close up. Read about sight and seeing.
Sense of Hearing - See the link above to visit the Web site and print this worksheet.
Name things you hear worksheet. Source: Worksheet Place
The Sense of Hearing - To reinforce sounds and why we hear
Our hearing is precious! Explain that our ears help us hear by moving close to a sound (it gets louder!) then farther away (it's softer.). Use a sound machine to listen to different sounds. Pick a peaceful tone and read them a book about hearing.
Sense of Smell - See the link above to visit the Web site and print this worksheet.
Sense of smell worksheet. Source: Worksheet Place
Sense of Smell - More lessons for teaching the sense of smell
To teach about the sense of smell, you might want to get some scratch and sniff stickers or book to show the different ways things smell.
More ways to teach the sense of smell: Walk outside. Smell the air. Let kids tell you what they smell. Read about the nose and smelling. Mo is a dog who smells the world around him. Read a Mo book to teach how a dog's sense of smell is so much stronger than ours.
Sense of Taste - See the link above to visit the Web site and print this worksheet.
List things we taste worksheet. Source: Worksheet Place
Sense of Taste - Serve a tasty, healthy snack while learning about the sense of taste.
The sense of taste might just be my favorite sense! No, I like them all, but I really love tasting certain foods. Have fun with your child. Let them really enjoy tasting food. Ask them to close their eyes while you pop half a grape in their mouth. Then ask them: What is that food? What does it taste like?
Sense of Touch - See the link above to visit the Web site and print this worksheet.
Sense of touch worksheet. Source: Worksheet Place
The Sense of Touch - Teach textures with hands on touching
Touch is a fun sense to teach. Use textures around the house to teach about the differences in how things feel. For example, touch a pet (soft, furry), the a hard floor (smooth, hard), a cushion (soft, bumpy surface), rocks (cold, smooth), grass (feathery, soft), and so on. The possibilities around your yard and home are endless!
5 Senses Worksheets - Click a small image to enlarge it.
Links to 5 Senses Worksheets shown above - Use this link to visit the Web site and print the worksheets shown above.
- Senses Theme Page at EnchantedLearning.com
Human Senses Theme Page at EnchantedLearning.com. - Worksheet Place
FIve senses worksheets. - About Faces
The Postwar Boom in Craniofacial Knowledge -- Click on an area of the exhibit case or one of the links below for information. Introduction | Oral Cavity | Eyes | Ears | Nose | Skin | Virtual Anatomy - Your Five Senses: Matching 2 | Worksheet | Education.com
Get your child thinking about the five senses with this worksheet that gets her to consider taste, touch, sight, smell and hearing.
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Learning Ally (formerly Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic) offers an online catalog of the best audiobook and audio learning opportunities on the internet. - Welcome to the Hearing Charities of America
Hearing Charities of America connects information, education, hearing health services and assistive devices to those who can help meet their needs. - Volunteer Community Work - Lions Clubs - Our Work
Lions are doing volunteer community work in 206 countries, through a variety of programs: sight, hearing, youth, international relations, community, environment, health and disaster relief. - Donate Glasses - Lions Clubs - How You Can Help
Donate glasses and change someone's life. Imagine if you could help a child read. An adult succeed in his job. A senior maintain her independence. And provide a community with more opportunities to grow and thrive.
Five Senses Printable Download Links - Gather some worksheets to reinforce what they've learned
- Five Senses Worksheets
Five Senses Worksheets For Printable Download. - Five Senses Flashcards
Flashcards for teaching the five senses: taste, smell, touch, see, and hear. - The Five Senses Theme Unit - Printables and Worksheets
The Five Senses Theme Unit -- Make a Daily The Five Senses Activity Lesson Plan Book -- Daily The Five Senses Activity Lesson Plan BookShort Reading Comprehensions - Dover Publications -- Free Samples including FIve Senses Worksheets
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Teach the Five Senses to Children
- Senses
SENSE OF TASTE- Give the children different foods to taste: salted crackers and potato chips for salty; grapes and raisins for sweet; lemon slices and sour pickles for sour. Taste different kinds of apples. Which apples are sweet; which ones are sour - Lesson Plans: The Five Senses (Elementary, Health)
Topic: The Five Senses: Grade: 1-3, Number of Students: 20-30, Time: 45 minutes-one hour Anticipatory Set: Ask each student to close their eyes and think of a place that he/she enjoys visiting. Then ask them to imagine things that they could see, he - Anatomy of an Eye: The Vision Correction Website
Understand the anatomy of an eye at the web's best site for those interested in vision correction surgeries. - The Five Senses Grade Level: Preschool or Kindergarten
Submitted by: Debbie Haren, preschool teacher, Topic: 5 Senses Length of Unit: 6 lessons Objective: To help students be able to name their five senses and how they used. - Five Senses for Kindergarten-Preschool
Five senses activities, lesson plans, crafts, math, centers, games, writing and songs. - Paso Partners | Five Senses - Lesson 1: The Five Senses
Book: My Five Senses by Aliki Word tags: see, hear, feel, taste, smell, texture Collection of various objects that students can sort by shape, size, texture - Paso Partners | Five Senses - Lesson 6: Taste
Lesson: Mirrors (one for every two students, at least); chart; fruits to cut into small pieces; toothpicks; Q-tips, two for each student; pictures of people eating; pictures of foods people can eat and foods people should not eat; - Sense of Touch
Lesson Pathways is an innovative new homeschool tool featuring curriculum and activities that appeal to multiple learning styles and teaching methods. - Lesson Plan: Using Our Sense of Hearing
In this lesson, students cannot see so they must use their sense of hearing to play the game. - Sense of Hearing
Lesson Pathways is an innovative new homeschool tool featuring curriculum and activities that appeal to multiple learning styles and teaching methods. - Sound and Hearing
In this unit children develop their understanding of the huge variety of sounds and sources of sound they encounter. They relate sounds to their sense of hearing and are introduced to the idea that sounds travel away from a source.
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2envelopparadox on April 17, 2014:
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Kathryn Grace from San Francisco on January 21, 2014:
I spend several days a week with one or more of my grandchildren and we have a lot of fun exploring our five senses, especially the littlest one, who is still learning to speak and to name things. Thank you for this VERY useful information. It will come in handy in the coming months.
MJ Martin aka Ruby H Rose from Washington State on November 24, 2013:
I really love learning and sharing new things. What a great rainy day project, fun and educational, just my style. So fun to read too. Love your sense of humor.
KamalaEmbroidery on May 11, 2013:
Thanks for the ideas. I don't have kids, but it would be fun to use some myself.
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A lens that makes a lot of sense:)
happynutritionist on March 13, 2013:
You have so many delightful ideas here and on your other pages...for the young and young at heart:-)
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JimmyGraph1961 on December 10, 2012:
Very good idea I like this approach
neotony on November 14, 2012:
excellent instructions. i liked when you said to point to the eye when talking about it rather than touching it to avoid them poking it accidentally.
David Stone from New York City on November 12, 2012:
Classy presentation. Angel dust!
Donnette Davis from South Africa on November 02, 2012:
These are very sweet worksheets. Thank you for gathering all the resources that would amply cover a unit study of the senses. Blessed x
anonymous on October 29, 2012:
Great ideas! thank you.
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Now that would be a sixth sense! Great lens!
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great and useful information
Fay Favored from USA on October 05, 2012:
Good worksheets for follow up on the lesson.
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Great resource for our homeschool, thanks!
Progetto Asilo Nido from Italy on September 05, 2012:
Thanks for this nice lens. We often use educational activities based on tastes with babies in our nursery schools.
Please consider that there are 5 tastes. For the 5th, "umami", see for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami
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Great lens! I'm teaching an ESL class at the local library and was looking for lesson ideas. This is really helpful.
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Great lens on the senses worksheets.
Mary Stuart on March 27, 2012:
Great lens! What a wonderful way to teach children the five senses.
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You always come up with some very cool subjects for lenses and I always learn something new. :) Five senses lenses....doesn't that rhyme? :)
sukkran trichy from Trichy/Tamil Nadu on February 13, 2012:
useful page for parents to encourage children at their learning process. thanks for some helpful links.
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troyreed23 on January 30, 2012:
I am going to have to print out these worksheets. Great lens can't wait to learn more
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Leilani-m on November 28, 2011:
Great lens! I will enjoy exploring senses with my kid :)
Virginia Allain from Central Florida on November 24, 2011:
Some very useful links and resources for parents and homeschooling.
gottaloveit2 on November 17, 2011:
Still love this lens! So educational.
LouisaDembul on November 14, 2011:
These were great, will use them with my kids.
anonymous on November 11, 2011:
These are just cool!
JoshK47 on October 30, 2011:
Awesome worksheets, very great resource - blessed by a SquidAngel!
hsschulte on October 28, 2011:
Thank you for gathering these worksheets. What a wonderful collection. I'll be linking to them from "Teaching the Five Senses."
hsschulte on October 28, 2011:
Thank you for gathering these worksheets. What a wonderful collection. I'll be linking to them from "Teaching the Five Senses."
Joan Haines on September 29, 2011:
When kids write, ask them to think about their five senses, and write what they are sensing. Nice lens!
Shannon from Florida on September 23, 2011:
Nice lens! We really loved using the books by Dana Meachen Rau when we studied the five senses.
anonymous on September 21, 2011:
that's cute
Peggy Hazelwood (author) from Desert Southwest, U.S.A. on September 21, 2011:
@gottaloveit2: I remember my mom having the same problem. The taste buds quick working as well too, I guess.
gottaloveit2 on September 21, 2011:
Very nice lens. One of the hardest things about watching Mom age is that her sense of smell is diminishing. I have to cook different type of food now to keep her interested.
