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5 Senses Worksheets for Preschool

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A five senses poster, matching and cut and paste pages, loud or quiet and soft or hard sorts, and a listening walk to take outside.

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My five senses

A poster of the five senses, then match each body part to something you see, hear, smell, taste or touch, with a line or with scissors and glue.

Hearing and touch

Sort sounds into loud and quiet, sort things into soft and hard, and listen for sounds on a walk outside.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these five senses worksheets

Preschoolers learn about the world by looking, listening, smelling, tasting and touching. These 5 senses worksheets for preschool turn that everyday exploring into simple science: name the body part for each sense, match it to something you sense with it, and sort what you hear and feel.

Each page has big pictures, one job and one short direction for a grown-up to read aloud. Children point, color, draw a line, circle, dot or cut and glue. Nothing needs reading. Pages with one right answer have an answer key on page 2, and the cut and paste page has a matching no-cut version.

Standards

  • ELOF P-SCI 1Child observes and describes observable phenomena (objects, materials, organisms, and events).
  • ELOF P-SCI 3Child compares and categorizes observable phenomena.
  • ELOF P-LC 6Child understands and uses a wide variety of words for a variety of purposes.
  • ELOF P-PMP 3Child demonstrates increasing control, strength, and coordination of small muscles.

How to use them

  1. Start with the My Five Senses poster. Point to each picture, say the sense together and touch that part of your own body.
  2. Before the matching page, play a quick game: close your eyes and listen, then sniff a lemon, taste a cracker and feel a soft sock.
  3. For Loud or Quiet, make each sound with your voice first: a loud drum, a quiet butterfly. Then let your child sort the pictures.
  4. Collect a few soft and hard things for Soft or Hard so your child can touch real objects before circling.
  5. Take the Listening Walk page outside with a dot marker or crayon. Stop, be very still and listen for each sound.

Teaching tips

  • Use the sense words often: see, hear, smell, taste and touch. Ask, "Which part of your body helps you do that?"
  • Some things use more than one sense. You can see and smell a flower. Talk about it, then pick the sense it is best known for.
  • Only taste food a grown-up says is safe. Smelling and touching are good ways to explore everything else.
  • Choose the no-cut version on days when scissors are not practical. It teaches the same idea.

Questions teachers and parents ask

What are the five senses?

Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. We see with our eyes, hear with our ears, smell with our nose, taste with our mouth and tongue, and touch with our skin, especially our hands.

How do you teach the five senses to preschoolers?

Keep it hands-on. Go on a listening walk, smell lemons and flowers, taste safe snacks, feel soft and bumpy things and play I Spy. Then use a page to talk about what each sense noticed.

Do these five senses worksheets have answer keys?

Yes. The matching, cut and paste and sorting pages have an answer key on page 2. The poster and the listening walk have no wrong answers, so they need none.