sense of sight part 1

In the next months we will focus on our five senses. I asked her to colour in where the sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are in a drawing of a little girl. We called her our little explorer. Then in a separate paper, I let her colour in her cloths and then cut them out and glue them on the girl

For the sense of sight we made a cardboard TV which we will use to explore various concepts using our eyes. First of all we looked at visual illusions. She will understand that not always what we see it is what actually we think we see! I showed M some simple examples of hidden figures, then an example of a figure made up of small tiny same figures and she made her own. I did this by using children stamps and stamp pad and colouring in each of the tiny figures. She then made her own, wanted to make a few more: one butterfly, one bee and one snail!

I then showed her some clever visual illusions on the computer on the kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/illusions/index.htm web site. there are many, you should choose the ones more suitable to the age and stage of your child. It was an interesting experience for her and it was fun.