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Synopsis
Children explore the world around them using their senses with over 200 engaging learning activities.
Children's Literature
This very useful text provides 200 simple activities that young children can engage in (with or facilitated by adults) to help them explore their senses. Five chapters focus on activities related to the senses of hearing, sight, touch, smell, and taste. Each of these chapters begins with an overview of the sense, followed by some interesting facts about that specific sense; for example, one of the facts about taste tells the readers that "an American painted butterfly walks on her food to taste it." Activities listed in each chapter are easy to understand and are age-appropriate for the young children to whom this text is directed; some focus on lists or items that youngsters can make, while other activities use short poems to help illustrate some aspect of the sense focused on in that chapter. An additional plus to this text is the list of children's books that would further support the study of the various senses. This is a solid text for teachers and parents with young children looking for fun yet educational activities.