Put different scented materials into containers (put numbers on the bottom to identify them) with holes in the top. (Wet a cottonball and sprinkle the materials over the wet cottonball to enhance the smell.) Do two the same and students can match the same scents. Students can simply try to identify the scent. Or sort the containers into good smells (peanut butter, oranges, mint) and bad smells (onion, garlic)
Activity #2:
Place different colored jelly beans in three different bags (all red in bag 1....) Use a blindfold (or have students close their eyes and you put the jelly beans in their mouths). Do this for each bag. Students hold their nose and chew a jellybean without smelling or seeing it. They record what color they predict the bean was on a recording sheet such as the one seen here. Then have students taste the same color jelly bean without holding their noses (but still not able to see it) Mark the prediction in the second recording box. Show the students the bean and have them color in the correct answer. Do the same for the other two bags.
