Even though we spent lots of time for
five senses activities, it was so fun and joyful. Most of the activities need
my girl to be blind folded; she enjoyed it and asked me to repeat it with neighborhoods
children. They shouted, enjoyed and filled our house with laughter and happiness. The
sad part is I couldn’t click those moments as I was busy playing with them.
Today, I want to share the
activities on last two senses: Sense of Smell and sense of Taste.
Sense of Smell
Actually,
whenever we go for nature study, when I cut vegetables like garlic, ginger,
mint or cilantro or when I open a new bottle of coffee powder …. I will
definitely ask my child to smell it.
In our backyard, a curry leaf
tree and a neem tree are standing side by side. So, initially my girl was
little confused with neem and curry leaf. I asked her to smell those leaves. Even now, if she’s not sure she’ll smell it
and confirm it.
Tender leaves of mango, lemon and eucalyptus have
the very nice and strong smell. So, I asked my baby to match the leaves and the
fruits of mango, lemon and eucalyptus by smelling it.
Sense of Taste
In English, they are talking only about the primary tastes like sweet, salt, sour and bitter (sometimes they include the fifth taste umami also). In Tamil, we have 6 tastes (‘Arusuvai’
in Tamil) namely sweet, salt, bitter, sour, pungent (hot) and astringent (almost
like umami). I asked my child to taste the content of the six bowls and asked her how it tasted. I could not click her beautiful expressions especially, when she tasted the lemon and
bitter gourd. Another wonderful activity was
to taste the food while closing the nose. Seriously you can feel the difference
in the taste when you can’t smell it.
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