The Five Senses Kids Activities and Crafts
Sense of Taste Activities
Describe that Taste Game
Objectives
Children will differentiate between different tastes.
Materials
- A variety of food items (sweet, salty, sour, bitter)
- Favorite Foods chart
Directions:
Provide a number of food items that include a wide variety of tastes such as jellybeans, lemons, pretzels, marshmallows, peanuts, raisins, unsweetened chocolate, olives, and sour apples. Let children sample the foods and describe how they taste. Record the words children use. Possible words might be sour, sweet, tangy, spicy, salty, bitter, yucky, etc. Add the words to your word wall. Graph children’s favorite foods.
Variation: Let children taste the food items blindfolded or with their eyes closed and try to figure out what the foods are.
Rhyme:
The lemon is sour.
How do I know?
My tongue told my brain,
So it must be so.
Extension:
Literacy Activity: Eating the Alphabet
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert is a simple yet educational book. It corresponds letters in the alphabet to a variety of fruits and vegetables. Each letter has a variety of foods and corresponding pictures. The book also introduces children to a large variety of fruits and vegetables that they may not eat on a daily basis. Eating the Alphabet teaches the ABCs and promotes a good nutritional diet. In addition, there is a description of the origin of each fruit and vegetable in the glossary in the back of the book.
Learn more about your tongue and your sense of taste at:
http://kidshealth.org
Available in our KidsSoup Resource Library:
Available in our KidsSoup Resource Library:
Ice Cream, I Can Taste... Reading
My Sense of Taste Booklet
My Tongue
printable and worksheet
Movement Activities
Blind Man's Bluff
The player who is “It” wears a blindfold. While he or she turns around in place five times, all the other players look for a good spot to hide. When “It” finishes the fifth rotation, he or she yells, “Stop,” and all the other players must freeze in place.
