More sense of touch activities, games, and printables

Directions:

Say: “If you are in a dark room and you bump into something, you put out your hand to touch and feel what is around you. This way you can find out very quickly what it is. Our hands send touch messages to our brain such as if something is hot or cold and hard or soft. When something touches our skin our skin cells send messages to our brain. All our skin is a sense organ and it has thousands of tiny nerves, which send messages to the brain. Some parts of our skin can feel things better than other parts. Fingers, toes, and lips are very sensitive. Some animals have special ways of feeling such as using their whiskers to move around and to detect food that they cannot see.”

Put ansmall item in a sock such as a spoon or a small toy car. Let children reach into the sock without looking and decide what is in the sock. Repeat with other items.

Movement and Games:

Touch and Feel Bag
Each day put a mystery item into a paper bag (or purse). Let children have a chance to feel inside the bag to guess what the object is. Have them use descriptive words such as smooth or rough and soft or hard. After all the children have had a chance to feel what is in the bag and have given their guesses, reveal what the object is.

Variation:

Let children bring a mystery object to share.

Rhyme:

The rock is hard.

How do I know?

My skin told my brain,

So it must be so.

Extension:

Play Touch and Feel Game