My Senses

1. How many senses do you have, what are they and where are they located?
2. Why did God give us these senses?
3. Read a story in the Bible that talks about one of the senses and role play that story.
4. Discuss how it would feel to lose one of your senses?
5. How are each of our senses important to our safety?
6. Do an experiment for each of the five senses.
7. Make a “My Five Senses Book” or other craft depicting the five senses.

Helps

1. There are five senses. Have children point to their senses as you talk about them.
   1. Hearing – ears
   2. Smell – nose
   3. Taste – mouth
   4. Sight – eyes
   5. Touch – skin
2. To enjoy life.
3. Examples:
   1. Hearing – Samuel and Eli (1 Samuel 1-3)
   2. Sight – Bartimaeus (Mark 10)
   3. Touch – Adam and Eve (Genesis 3)
   4. Taste – Great Feast (Luke 14)
   5. Smell – Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25)
4. Have a discussion and watch a video, invite someone who has lost one of their senses to talk to the kids.
5. Our sense of hearing allows us to hear alarms and danger sounds, smell helps us to detect smoke, with touch we can feel something hot, with sight you can see danger around us.
6. Search the internet for ideas, such as Google, Pinterest, Learning Tree, etc.
7. Search the internet for ideas, such as Google, Pinterest, Learning Tree, etc.

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