Smell and Taste

I just got around to teaching these topics, since I was originally supposed to teach them the week school was canceled.

We had a lot of fun with smells and tastes on the same day. We started with a review of all our senses and what body parts we use for each sense (with a Mr. Potato Head as our prop).

We had fun using our sniffers for the first half of our class. The kids had opinions about all the different smells - vanilla (yum), cinnamon (yum), mint (yum), orange (okay), soap (okay), perfume (yuck), onions (yuck), vinegar (yuck). Cinnamon was the favorite.


We added pages to our 5 senses books too. We cut out noses and other things with strong scents and pasted them to a page. We also colored a fun picture of a baby with a stinky diaper (thanks Lara) that the kids had fun with.

We used koolaid to make smelly scratch and sniff paints. The boys had fun painting. And Jack knew exactly what he was painting (a big orange and an apple) whereas the other boys weren't as sure, but were just as enthusiastic.


We moved on to the taste testing, which was equally as fun. We tasted sugar (sweet), salt (salty), lemon (sour), and baking chocolate (bitter).

It was funny to watch the boys stick their finger in the chocolate and then all cough, gag, and say ewwww!

Yuck - bitter!

Surprisingly they all liked the lemon and even asked for seconds.

Yum - lemon!

We mixed some flavors - sugar, lemon, water - to make yummy lemonade. The boys drank that down in no time.

We added another page to the 5 senses book telling about the different tasting parts of our tongue along with pictures of foods that we like to eat.


It was Thomas' last day of preschool and we were glad he could make it! He was slightly late, so there aren't many pictures of him but here is one for proof that he was there.

We'll miss having him in our group and wish him the best in France!