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Book for the Senses






 

Book for the Senses

[30 Minutes]

You and your child can create a unique book to delight your child's very special senses.


You'll need:

• magazines, newspapers, supermarket fliers • glue • textured materials (velvet, lace, fake fur, vinyl) • 5 - 6 inch cardboard squares • hole punch • string or sturdy yarn or ribbon • smells to match pictures chosen (perfume for flowers, spices or extracts for foods) • scissors

What to do:

  1. Talk together about your child's senses. Ask her to describe some of her favorite smells, tastes, textures, sounds, sights.
  2. Search for pictures and textures to match her favorites.
  3. Help her glue the things she likes to look at on one page and the things she likes to listen to on another page.
  4. Also the things she likes to touch on other pages, (facing pages should have different textured materials: rough/smooth, fuzzy/flat, soft/slick) the things she likes to taste on another page and the things she likes to smell on the last page.
  5. You can put smells throughout the book by adding perfume for flowers, a few drops of lemon extract to a picture of fruit, sprinkle cinnamon on the glue for apple pie, and so on.
  6. Punch two holes at the same places in each piece of cardboard.
  7. Use string, yarn, or ribbon to attach the pages and make a book.

Let's Talk: Ideas to Explore Together.

  • Can you tell me some words to add to the pages?
  • What is your favorite smell? Sound? Feel? Taste? Sight?

Useful information:

While you are having fun together, your child is developing her senses and language skills.



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