sense of smell part 2

how to make a good useful smell: take an orange or a mandarin and some whole cloves. If you are strong enough, just push the cloves through the orange skin, other wise make hole on the skin by using a tooth pick and then insert the cloves in the holes. Your orange will immediatelly take a new lovely smell. It is also a good exercise to strenghen the fingers and as a creative activity

the sense of smell part 1

For this sense I devise a matching game. I collected a few of the same containers over a short period of time (I chose to keep Actimel empty bottles). The important thing is that they are all identical containers. I chose some strong, quite easily recognizable smells, such as mint leaves, coffee, cinamon, cumin, dry herbs. I put the same smell in two containers to form a couple. I asked M. to have a good smell inside the containers and I told her the name of each thing she was smelling. Then I asked her to close her eyes and try and match the smell of the bottle she has in her hand by smelling all the bottles until she would find the right one. As I wanted to keep the smells for her to repeat the exercise when she likes, I covered the containers with cling film, put a rabber bend around the neck of the bottle and made a few holes on the cling film with a tooh-pick

Sense of hearing

For exploring this sense we have listened to some sounds on a tape which M. had to match to some pictures I gave her. Then I planned for two trips to explore the sounds of the city and the sounds of nature. For the sounds of the city we focused on hearing all the noises around us as we were walking to the farm and the woodland area in the park (the two "sounds of the nature" sites)

Sense of sight part 3

This time is all about using our eyes to find small insects. A trip to the local country park provided the right environment and the best excuse to spend the day outside in the sun. What we need is just a magnifying glass and a small transparent container with lid.