What Story Can You Make Using Your Five Senses?

Materials:

• Small containers with safe items for each sense:

  • Feel: soft fabric, rough sponge, smooth stone, squishy ball

  • Smell: orange peel, cinnamon stick, vanilla, soap

  • Sight: colorful pictures, shiny objects, magnifying glass

  • Hearing: shaker, bell, crinkly paper, water in a cup

  • Taste: (safely) apple slice, cracker, raisin, cucumber

• Paper and crayons

Instructions:

• Set up stations around the room for each sense (touch, smell, sight, hearing, taste).

• Invite children to explore each station, using their senses to discover and describe what they notice.

• After trying each station, ask children to act out, tell, or draw a story inspired by something they experienced with their senses.

Powerful InterACTions - PK3:

• What did you touch?

• What did you smell?

• What did you see?

• What did you hear?

• Who is in your story?

• How many characters are there in your story?

Powerful InterACTions - PK4:

• What did you touch? Who could use it in a story?

• What did you smell? Do you like the smell?

• What did you see? Where could it be in your story?

• What did you hear? Who made that sound?

• What did you taste? Who eats that in your story?

• Who is in your story? What are they doing?

• What happens next in your story?