Are your littles fascinated by the world around them? Do they light up when they experience new sights, sounds, or textures? These Emotions and Five Senses Theme Activities for Preschoolers are just for you!
Our senses are powerful tools that help young minds understand the world and their emotions. Learning about different sounds, smells, textures, and visuals helps them connect how they feel in different situations. Exploring their environment through their senses gives them a head start in recognizing their emotions and how to express them.
This Emotions and Five Senses Theme lesson is a fun way to teach your littles about how their body and brain work together. From identifying different sounds and smells to exploring textures and colors, they’ll develop a deeper connection with their surroundings, while also building skills like sorting, letter and number recognition, discussions, and so much more!
How Can Five Senses Worksheets Enhance Learning for Preschoolers?
Five Senses Theme worksheets are a fantastic way to combine fun with education while encouraging your littles to explore their emotions and sensations.
These worksheets often include activities like coloring, matching, and simple puzzles that help young children develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and early literacy and numeracy skills—all while exploring how their senses work!
By engaging with these worksheets, preschoolers can learn how different sounds, textures, and sights make them feel. Not only can you have fun, but you can also use everyday items around your home or talk about the sounds you hear and the textures you feel in the world around you. You can even go on sensory walks to apply these concepts to everyday life!
What Types of Crafts Can Preschoolers Make to Learn About Emotions and the Five Senses?
Crafting is an excellent hands-on activity that allows preschoolers to express their creativity while learning about their emotions and the five senses.
Projects like creating handprint art, making sensory bins, experimenting with different textures, and exploring colors are perfect ways to tap into their five senses and help them better understand how they feel in different situations.
These crafts also encourage imaginative play and help develop important skills like following instructions and problem-solving, while connecting sensory experiences to emotions.
How Do Worksheets and Crafts Foster Emotional Awareness and Sensory Exploration?
Worksheets and crafts centered around the five senses can instill a sense of emotional awareness and sensory exploration.
By engaging in these activities, children can develop a deeper understanding of their own emotions, how different sensations make them feel, and how to express those feelings. This helps them connect sensory inputs—like a soft blanket or a loud noise—to their emotional responses, fostering a sense of self-awareness and emotional regulation.
Additionally, creating art related to their senses builds a personal connection with how they perceive the world, fostering a sense of wonder and curiosity as they explore their emotions and environment.
What Are Some Easy-to-Implement Five Senses Activities at Home?
Understanding emotions and the five senses is important knowledge to gain from a young age. The more we teach, the more they understand themselves and their surroundings.
Printable worksheets, sensory exploration activities, and simple household items like cotton balls, sandpaper, and spices can provide hours of educational fun.
Combine these with craft supplies like glue, scissors, and colored paper to create a Five Senses Theme right in your own home. Activities like smelling different spices, feeling various textures, and exploring sound can help your littles develop a rich sensory experience.
Reading emotion-themed books and watching educational videos about feelings and senses can also complement these activities, creating a well-rounded learning experience.
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There are resources for varying levels of students from ages 2-5. You’ll have to use your discretion on age and level to decide which activities will be appropriate.
Art & Creativity Activities for Five Senses and Emotions Preschool Theme
Art and creativity activities centered around emotions and the five senses are a wonderful way to ignite the imagination of preschoolers.
Through artistic expression, children can explore how their senses work and experiment with colors, shapes, and textures to reflect their feelings and experiences.
These activities provide a creative outlet for young minds, encouraging them to think creatively and develop their unique artistic style while also gaining a deeper understanding of how they interact with the world around them through sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
Engaging with emotions and senses-themed art projects helps preschoolers enhance their fine motor skills, boosts their confidence, and builds a sense of self-awareness. They learn how different sensory experiences can trigger various emotions, helping them understand their feelings and express them in a healthy way.
DIY Cardboard Emotions Face – Use cardboard to cut out images of a face and attach them with brass fastners to make this interchangeable emotion face. Students can easily change the facial features to express their feelings or mood.
Make Worry Dolls – This craft goes along with the book “Silly Billy” and serves a purpose to lessen the worries of children. By wrapping craft pegs with thread, you can make your own worry dolls. Silly Billy offers a practical solution for children who worry from the South American tradition where children share their worries by making worry dolls.
DIY Emotions Book – Take photos of students making emotion faces, print them out, and paste theme in a blank board book to create a full emotions book. This is sure to be a fun hit for students as they see each other’s faces and talk about their emotions.
Emotion Face (Printable) – Cut out the face picture and attach velcro near the eyes and mouth space. Cut out each image of different eyes and mouths. Have students mix and match eyes and mouth to create different emotion faces and describe what it looks like to them.
Emotions Slider (Printable) – Students can color each part of the face before inserting the pull tab through to be able to change the eyes and the face. Slide the tab to create different feelings faces. Younger learners may require assistance in this final step of assembly.
Five Senses Mobile (Printable) – Students draw something that they use that sense to experience (eg I see a butterfly) on each circle, colour the pictures and then put the mobile together.
Emotions Wheel – Divide a paper plate into four sections and have children color and label each section (for example, green for happy, red for mad, blue for sad, and yellow for excited). Encourage children to choose the emotion they are feeling that day and talk about it. You can keep these in an easily accessible area of the classroom for children to use each day.
Toilet Paper Roll People – Little ones love these cute little toilet paper roll people. Glue googly eyes and make a simple face with a marker to teach the various emotions.
Five Senses Magazine Craft – Have students use construction paper and magazines to create this five senses craft. Tell them to cut out the body parts that go with each sense and then cut out another item that they would use this sense for. You can also have them use one whole sheet for each sense and have them paste lots of items that they can see, smell, taste, touch, or hear.
Five Senses Puppet Sticks (Printable) – Simply print these body parts on card stock, color them, and attach them to popsticle sticks. Have students use these sticks as you’re reading a story or simply talking about something that would use one of the senses and raise it up when they hear it.
Literacy Activities for Five Senses and Emotions Preschool Theme
Activities focused on emotions and the five senses provide an exciting avenue for preschoolers to develop their literacy skills. Whether through sensory-based storytelling, emotion word strips, or interactive worksheets, there’s something for every child to enjoy!
By incorporating activities that connect feelings to words, like matching emotions to facial expressions or using sensory experiences to describe objects, preschoolers can enhance their vocabulary and comprehension. These hands-on, engaging activities not only build literacy skills but also help young learners understand how to express their emotions and describe the world around them using their five senses.
Five Senses Easy Reader (Printable) – This Booklet helps students practice their penmanship/spelling while also teaching about the five senses. Students trace the sense words, color the picture, and read the sentences along with it.
Five Senses Word Wall Cards (Printable) – Use these word wall cards to hang in your classroom so students can see and read five sense words, their verbs, and body parts.
Labeling Super Senses (Printable) – Use these worksheets for students to identify the senses in the picture (either body parts or actions) and copy the words below.
Senses Interactive Book (Printable) – Use these pages for students to color and read about the senses, specifically the “seeing” sense. Put together these small books about how many senses do we have, what the five senses help you do, and what you can see with your eyes.
Emotions Letter Match (Printable) – Simply cut on the lines and have students match the upper and lowercase letters to complete the picture.
Fine and Visual Motor Activities for Emotions and Five Senses Preschool Theme
DIY Emotion Dot Stickers – Draw faces of different emotions on dot stickers and have child peel off the sticker and place on a paper. You can buy emoji stickers, but if you have dot stickers laying around, here is an easy way to make them yourself. Peeling stickers is a great way to practice pincer grasp for young children.
Draw Emotion Faces (Printable) – This packet includes several blank faces and words to describe what emotion to draw. Have students draw the eyes, nose, and mouth that would represent that emotion. Laminate and use dry erase markers to use over and over!
How I Feel Today Sheet (Printable) – Have students color in the face that most represents how they are feeling that day. This can also be used as just a coloring sheet for younger children to color all the faces at once,
Smelling Match Worksheet (Printable) – Have students color the picture of the nose and other images. Then, Draw a line from the nose to which images use the smelling sense.
Five Sense Sorting (Printable) – Have students use their fine motor skills to cut out each picture. Then, have them match and paste it in the correct box depending on the sense they would use.
Five Senses Mazes (Printable) – Work on fine and visual motor skills with these mazes while learning the five senses.
Five Sense and Apples (Printable) – Describe apples using your five senses (hearing, sight, smell, touch, and taste). Comes with a mini set of posters for the common adjectives to describe apples. Students will copy the word for each sense of how their apple feels, tastes, smells, sounds, and looks.
Color the Color Monster (Printable) – This activity goes along with the fun book, “The Color Monster.” Have students color what emotion they are feeling on the monster as they relate colors to emotions.
MegaBlocks Emotion Faces – Draw eyes, noses, and mouths on several Megablocks to create different emotions. Have students match up eyes, noses, and mouths to create different faces.
Five Senses Cutting and Tracing Strips (Printable)– Cut on thick black line to separate each strip. Have students use a scissor to cut on the line from one end to the other. Horizontal pages can be used for tracing with a pencil or crayon on each dotted line.
Songs for Five Senses and Emotions Preschool Theme
Songs about emotions and the five senses are a fun and engaging way to introduce preschoolers to the world of feelings and sensory experiences.
Through catchy melodies and playful lyrics, these songs capture children’s attention and make learning about emotions and how we experience the world through our senses an enjoyable experience.
Singing about emotions helps children improve their memory, language skills, and rhythm, while also fostering a love for music. By incorporating senses like sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell into the lyrics, children can better understand how these sensations connect to their emotions, making the learning process both fun and meaningful!
“If You’re Happy and You Know It”
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. x 2
If you’re happy and you know it, your face will surely show it.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
Additional Verses: If you’re angry and you know it, stomp your feet
If you’re excited and you know it, shout hooray.
If you’re sad and you know it, dry your tears.
If you’re scared and you know it, hide your eyes.
“Cry, Cry When You’re Sad” to the tune of: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”
Cry, cry when you’re sad.
Just between me and you.
Don’t be afraid to shed a tear.
It’s the thing to do.
“I Have a Happy Face” to the tune of: “I’m A Little Teapot”
I have a happy face, Just watch me grin.
I have a great big smile from my forehead to my chin.
When I’m upset and things are bad,
Then my happy face turns to sad.
“I Look In The Mirror”
I look in the mirror and what do I see? I see a happy face smiling at me.
I look in the mirror and what do I see? I see a surprised face looking at me.
Use this song while you and your child are looking in the mirror and making those emotion faces. Make up other verses as you make additional “feelings” faces.
“Feelings” to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot”
Sometimes on my face, you’ll see, (point to chest)
How I feel inside of me. (point to face)
A smile means happy, (smile) A frown means sad. (frown)
And gritting teeth, means I’m mad. (grit teeth)
When I’m proud, I beam and glow, (smile)
But when I’m shy, my head hangs low. (Bow head)
“Feelings” to the tune of: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”
I have feelings, so do you. Let’s all sing about a few.
We get happy, we get sad. We get scared, we get mad.
I am proud of being me. That’s a feeling, too, you see.
I have feelings, so do you. We just sang about a few.
“Five Senses Song” to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell
I use my eyes to see, I use my eyes to see, & when I want to see a star, I use my eyes to see
I use my nose to smell, I use my nose to smell, & when I want to smell a flower, I use my nose to smell.
I use my tongue to taste, I use my tongue to taste, & when I want to taste a peace, I use my tongue to taste,
I use my ears to hear, I use my ears to hear, & when I want to hear a bird, I use my ears to hear,
I use my hands to touch, I use my hands to touch, & when I want to touch a cat, I use my hands to touch.
“The Bear Went Over the Mountain”
The bear went over the mountain (x 3) to see what he could see.
And all that he could see, see, see (x 3)
was (name things that he can see)
was all that he could see.
The bear went over the mountain (x 3) to hear what he could hear.
And all that he could hear, hear, hear (x 3)
was (name things that he can hear)
was all that he could hear.
Repeat for touch, taste, smell
Sensory Activities for Emotions and Five Senses Preschool Theme
Sensory activities are a fun and engaging way to introduce preschoolers to the world of their five senses!
Through hands-on exploration, children can experience different textures, sounds, smells, and visuals, helping them to understand how their senses connect them to the world around them. From squishy sensory bins to sound jars and textured art, these activities provide endless opportunities for discovery.
Sensory play not only stimulates young minds but also helps improve fine motor skills, language development, and cognitive growth. By engaging in sensory activities, preschoolers can learn to express how they feel about different sensations while enhancing their creativity and problem-solving skills.
Explore Vision with Mirror, Mirror – This is a great activity for learning about both emotions and the five senses. Place a mirror in front of your child and say different feelings and they have to make the face that represents that feeling. You can show them pictures of it and they have to copy it if needed. For the senses, have them point out the different facial features that provide each sense. Ie. What do you use to hear? To see? To taste? etc.
Emoji Play Dough Mat (Printable) – Feelings and Emotions play dough mats are a fun activity to teach and build your student’s emotional vocabulary and social skills. Have them roll, stretch, and pinch play dough to form the emoji faces.
Food Faces – Start looking at food differently and have fun creating food faces. Almost all fruit and vegtables can be converted into faces. Carrot hair, tomato eyes, pieces of lunch meat for the face. Set up an assembly line and ask your kids to help make a face. Asking them to help make the food, will make them more likely to at least try it.
Emotion Sensory Bottles – We all know kids love sensory bottles. These just have emotion stickers on them to make faces to make it more fun for your students. All you need to use are empty plastic bottles, glitter, clear glue, and water to make the sensory bottles and emotion stickers to attach.
Explore Texture with Texture People – Make a textured collage by cutting shapes from a range of textured paper, fabric and recyclables – for example, sandpaper for rough, corrugated cardboard or bubble wrap for bumpy, cotton wool or faux fur for soft, cellophane or silk for smooth and alfoil for crinkly.
Explore Sound with Noisy/Quiet Sensory Bin – Have students place items in a container (bowl, bottle, Easter egg, etc.) and shake it to see if the item is quiet or noisy. First model for them what to do. Use items such as tissue paper, card stock paper, straw, foam numbers, tin foil, wax paper, pom pom ball, sticker, and pipe cleaners (quiet). And coins, buttons, earrings, cars, erasers, whistle, plastic letters, metal cookie cutter, and pebbles (noisy).
Explore Texture with Leaf Rubbing – Send your students outdoors on a leaf hunt with unwrapped crayons and paper. Have them take rubbings from each leaf they find . Once back inside, add color and interest to your rubbings by painting over them with liquid watercolors or food coloring.
Explore Taste – Set up a muffin tin with various foods ranging from tastes like sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter, etc. Have students take turns trying each food and trying to compare it by describing the taste. For younger ones, they can just learn that the taste sense lets us explore foods with our mouth/tongue.
Explore Smell – Set out some household items that have a strong smell. For example, spices, vinegar, lemon, air freshener, cookies, cleaners, etc. You can dab a bit on a cotton ball as to not give students a whole bottle. Have them smell these items and ask what body part they use to smell and if they like it or not.
Gross Motor Activities for Emotions and Five Senses Theme
Feelings Catch – Toss the ball to a child. When he catches it have him identify the feeling face under one of his hands. He can also share a time when he experienced that feeling. It’s a simple and fun way to teach kids about feelings.
Feelings Ball Toss Sort – Use bowls and label them with images of different emotions. For younger students, have them toss a ball into the bowl when you state the emotion. For older students, you can give them a scenario card and have them decide which emotion they would feel.
Bubble Wrap Bounce – Use a roll of bubble wrap & roll it out on the floor. Have students bounce, run up and down, roll around on it and try to pop the bubbles. Play a fun “Bounce Song” as well as they bop and bop. He seriously played with it all week long! I eventually tapped it down with masking tape so it wouldn’t bunch up.
Sensory Walk – Place a variety of sensory materials in separate trays. This can include Water (in various temps), Sand, Flour, Rice, Grass, Sticks, Pom Poms, Shaving cream, Water beads, Yarn, Leaves, Rocks, Bubble wrap, and so much more! Use anything you have accessible. Then have students run or walk through each bin and talk about what they felt.
Blind Man’s Bluff– The player who is “It” wears a blindfold. While he or she turns around in place five times, all the other players hide. When “It” finishes the fifth rotation, he or she yells, “Stop,” and all the other players must freeze in place. “It” then begins to search for the other players by yelling “blind man’s . . .” All other players must yell “bluff,” although they can disguise their voices. The searcher uses vocal clues to track down the other players.
Matching, Sorting, and Sequencing Activities for Emotions and Five Senses Theme
Learning to sort objects in various ways helps your child develop essential cognitive skills like recognizing and creating patterns, thinking logically, and organizing items by order or sequence.
Sorting and sequencing activities also support children in everyday tasks, such as cleaning up or following routines. Why not make it fun while being educational by exploring emotions and the five senses? Sorting objects by texture, color, or sound not only helps with these skills but also encourages children to explore how their senses work together. This playful, sensory-based learning can foster curiosity and creativity while strengthening important life skills.
Emotion Eggs – Draw eyes and mouths on different sides of plastic Easter eggs. You can break and mix them up to create a whole lot of new and interesting emotions. They will see how much a face can change just by the shape of the eyes or position of the mouth.
Emotion Cards (Printable) – Use picture cards to play a game by matching emotions. Print two sets & lay them face down and have students turn over 2 at a time to find a match and describe what emotion they see. You can also pull out a card one at a time and have students say what the emotion is. For older kids, show them an emotion card and have them explain a situation in which someone may have this feeling or have them tell how they are feeling by showing you a card instead of using words.
Five Senses Sorting (Printable) – Have students color and cut out the objects and place them in the row for which sense they belong to.
Emotions Matching (Printable) – Have students match the emotion faces to one another as they learn what certain faces mean. For younger children, just match the face to the same face, for older ones who can start reading, they can match the emotion word to the face.
Emotion Photo Sort – Print out images of different people showing various emotions. Make a pocket folder with a happy face, sad face, etc. Have students sort the emotions into their proper category.
Mathematics Activities for Emotions and Five Senses Theme
Mathematics activities are a great way to introduce preschoolers to numbers and problem-solving through hands-on, sensory-based learning!
By incorporating counting, measuring, and sorting into fun, interactive activities, children can develop their early math skills while also exploring their five senses. For example, they can count objects based on texture, measure ingredients while cooking, or sort items by size or color.
These sensory-rich math activities not only build foundational math skills but also enhance their ability to observe, compare, and make sense of the world around them. By connecting math to everyday experiences and sensations, children can develop a deeper understanding of numbers, patterns, and spatial awareness—all while having fun!
Feeling Shapes Game (Printable) – For this game, you’ll just need tangrams and a paper bag. Place all the cut out feelings shapes in the bag and have students pick out one at a time. Then, have them find the matching shape in a tangram and trace that tangram on a sheet of paper. Make sure they say the name of the feeling and the shape. Don’t have tangrams? Just laminate the paper shapes and have them trace those.
I Spy Counting Emotions (Printable) – Use this activity to have students count the number of emotion faces. They can also color in the picture with the correct color and then count them and write the number.
Emoji Roll and Cover (Printable) – Simply have students roll a dice and cover the corresponding number of emoji faces on the sheet.
Five Senses Number Mats (Printable)- Each page focuses on one number. First, identify the number at the top left corner. Follow the instructions to build the 10 frame with counters to show that number, trace, write, add, circle, and then use counters again to count and cover the number of items at the bottom. All you need are some math link counting cubes, or any other colored manipulative for that matter, such as pom poms, counting bears, beads, etc.
Emotion Patterns (Printable) – Cut out squares of emotion-themed images. Have student make their own patterns, or start patterns for them and have them complete it. There is also a grid available to make it easier for students to see how many spots are left.
Books to Read Aloud for Emotions and Five Senses Theme
Reading books about emotions and the five senses aloud is a delightful way to introduce preschoolers to understanding their feelings and how they experience the world around them. These books captivate young minds with engaging stories, vibrant illustrations, and fascinating facts about how our senses work and how emotions shape our reactions.
By exploring characters’ feelings and sensory experiences through storytelling, children can better understand their own emotions and the role their senses play in daily life. Reading aloud also promotes language development and emotional awareness, all while making learning fun and interactive!
“Silly Billy” by Anthony Browne – Billy is a bit of a worrier. He worries about hats and shoes. Most of all, he worries about staying at other people’s houses. His mum and dad try to help, but still Billy worries…until a visit to his grandma’s shows him how to overcome his fears with the aid of his imagination – and some tiny worry dolls.
“In My Heart” by Jo Witek – This is one of the cutest books about feelings! Preschoolers learn that their heart is like a house with all their feelings living inside. It has a die-cut heart on each page as the book takes your child on a journey through their emotions.
The Color Monster – A Story About Emotions” by Anna Llenas – One day, Color Monster wakes up with his emotions are all over the place. He learns what each feeling means through color. As he learns to sort and define his mixed-up emotions, he gains self-awareness & peace.
“The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses” by Joanna Cole – On a most sense-sational trip that takes them through an eye, an ear, a tongue, and even a dog’s nose, Ms. Frizzle’s class learns about the senses. Using their trademark sense of humor, the author provides facts about the senses in both the human and animal worlds.
“My Magical Feelings” by Becky Cummings – Feelings are the language of the soul. That’s why it’s important to encourage our children to express themselves. This book helps explain feelings and emotions to young kids.
“Look, Listen, Taste, Touch, and Smell: Learning About Your Five Senses” by Pamela Neddleton – An introduction to the five senses and the organs that perform the functions of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
“Curious George Discovers the Senses” by H.A. Rey – George & the man with the yellow hat’s leaky roof adventure quickly turns into a disaster when George’s nightly trips to the kitchen keep his friend awake at night. Can George use his other senses to quietly find his way to the refrigerator in the dark? Learn all about sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch with your favorite monkey!
“My Five Senses” by Aliki – Sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch—our five senses teach us about our world. This engaging text and colorful artwork shows young readers how they use their senses to smell a rose or play with a puppy.
“The Feelings Book” by Todd Parr – The Feelings Book illustrates the wide range of moods and emotions. The author pays special attention to the ever-changing, nonsensical emotions that we all feel. This book will inspire kids to discuss their multitude of feelings in a kid-friendly, accessible format, told through bold, bright colors and silly scenes.
“The Feelings Dinosaurs” by Emily Hartmann – Little dinosaurs have a lot of feelings. They feel angry when someone takes their toys, anxious when they have to go to school, sadness when they miss their friends, and more. This adorable and relatable story helps kids explore and express their emotions.
Discussions and Graphing Activities for Five Senses and Emotions Preschool Theme
Discussions and graphing activities focused on emotions and the five senses offer a structured yet exciting way for preschoolers to explore everyday experiences and sensations, as well as emotions they may not yet fully understand.
By engaging in discussions, children develop their language skills, learn to articulate their thoughts, and build a deeper understanding of how they feel in different situations. These conversations can help them recognize how certain sights, sounds, smells, and textures make them feel, while graphing activities allow them to visually track their favorite sensations or emotions. Whether they’re sharing how soft a blanket feels or how loud noises can be overwhelming, these activities foster emotional awareness, communication, and self-expression—all while providing fun, hands-on learning!
Discuss Emotions and Feelings (Poster Printable) – Bring about emotional awareness & talk about the names of each emotion, how can we tell if someone/themselves is feeling this way, and what situations can cause these feelings. Use a poster for students to point out their feelings.
Discuss Managing Emotions (Printable) – After teaching what emotions are, make sure students know how to manage and deal with these emotions. Hang up this printable poster in your classroom to go over simple ways to deal with strong feelings.
Discuss the Five Senses (Poster Printable) – Discuss the Five Senses and what they do.
Go over these posters, then place them around the room to refresh their memory each time they see them.
Teach them the body part (ie. eyes), what it does (ie. see), and what examples in daily life do you use it for (ie. see your teachers)
Chart Feelings and Emotions – After discussing emotions, have students not only track their feelings for that day, but keep an ongoing chart in the classroom as they see what their emotions are throughout the week. Create an anchor chart and have students daily check off or mark a tally on their emotion that day.
Activities centered around emotions and the five senses offer a rich and diverse way to support preschoolers’ development across various domains. From enhancing fine motor skills and literacy to sparking curiosity in science and math, these activities provide endless opportunities for young learners to grow and discover.
By incorporating worksheets, crafts, sensory experiences, songs, and more, educators and parents can create a dynamic and engaging learning environment that fosters emotional awareness and sensory exploration. These activities help children understand how their senses work, recognize their emotions, and express themselves in healthy ways.
As you explore these activities with your preschoolers, remember that the journey of learning is as important as the destination.
Embrace the adventure, encourage curiosity, and enjoy the countless moments of discovery and joy that come with exploring emotions and the five senses. With each activity, you’re not only nurturing essential developmental skills but also inspiring a sense of wonder and connection to the world around them.
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