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Kindergarten The 5 Senses Activities

Young children learn primarily through direct experience. Help your children explore the five senses with kindergarten five senses activities that include making homemade bubbles and even hand sanitizer. Kids love going outside, and if you embrace the learning process by allowing the kids to get dirty as they explore the senses through kindergarten nature activities you’ll make learning their favorite activity.

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The 5 Senses

This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!

Instant Poetry! A Writing Exercise

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what he observes around him into a beautiful poem. Develop his writing skills and his creativity.

Have a Magnet Marathon!

Hold a magnet marathon! Explore the power of magnets with your kindergartener in this entertaining and simple science game.

Shaving Cream Paintings

Blend art and science in this hands-on activity that shows your kindergartener how primary colors combine to make secondary colors.

Set up a fun guessing game for your curious kindergartener, one that will test her ability to use all five of her senses.

Your Nose Knows! Have Fun with Smell Science

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Popcorn Science for All Five Senses!

Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!

Chromatography for Kids

Help your child explore chromatography, which is the process of separating colors or pigments, and create a neat art project in the process!

Sound Scavenger Hunt

In this activity, you'll send your kindergartener on a scavenger hunt to find sounds and create a sound recording. Here's how!

Make a Magnet Map

In this kindergarten activity your child will create a map of your house and use a magnet to move pictures of your family through the house!

Play the Senses Guessing Game

In this fun guessing game, your child uses his sense of smell and taste to figure out what is in the container. Here's how to play:

Investigate Magnetic Attraction

Magnets may hold up papers on the fridge, but is it the paper that attracts them? Find out more with this kindergarten science investigation.

Make a Magnet Painting

Here is a kindergarten activity that blends art and science by using magnets, paint, and objects found around the house to create a picture.

Mix Color for Rainbow Stew!

Invite your kindergarten scientist to conduct this color mixing experiment to discover which primary hues make a rainbow of secondary colors.

Make a Handprint Butterfly

Show your preschooler how to make a print of a butterfly using her hand as a tool--a great way to stimulate her sense of touch.

Different Textures

Let your kid experiment with textures among fabric and other materials that are smooth, rough, soft, or slippery--and then he'll make a texture book!

Help your kindergarten or first grade child use his creativity to make a beautiful magnetic patterned structure while discovering the wonders of magnets.

Homemade Hand Sanitizer

Create your very own scented hand sanitizer that will help your child to keep those nasty germs at bay!

Make a Sensory Cloud

Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!

Your child can create his own texture tree, experimenting with design during the process. The result will be a beautiful addition to your holiday decorations

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