The five senses are one of the first science topics in kindergarten, because they are how young children already learn about everything. The topic asks for three things: name each sense, connect it to the right part of the body, and decide which sense you would use for something in the world around you.
These nine sheets take those in order. Sheets 01 to 03 are about naming and placing the senses: tracing the words, reading the sentences and labeling a child’s body. Sheets 04 to 08 use the senses on real things, getting a little harder each time, from matching to circling to coloring to odd one out to a cut and paste sort. The last sheet hands the pencil over and asks children for their own examples.
Very little reading is needed anywhere in the set. Every sense word comes with a picture, and children answer by tracing, circling, matching, coloring, cutting and gluing, with only the last page asking for a few words of their own.
Five of the nine print in plain black and white, and the color by sense page uses color only in its key, so most of the set is easy on ink for a class.
Five Senses Sentence Tracing Worksheet for Kindergarten
Five sentences to trace and read: I see with my eyes, I hear with my ears, and so on through all five. A small picture of a child using each sense sits beside every line.
Trace My Senses Kindergarten Five Senses Worksheet
Trace hear, smell, see, touch and taste twice each on handwriting lines, then color the ear, nose, eye, hand and mouth beside them.
Five Senses Labeling Cut and Paste Worksheet Kindergarten
A girl in overalls with five empty boxes around her, each joined to her eyes, ears, nose, tongue or hand. Children cut out the five sense words and glue each one in place.
Five Senses Picture Matching Worksheet for Kindergarten
Draw a line from pancakes, a skunk, a xylophone, a teddy bear and the moon to the child showing the sense you would use.
Which Sense Do I Use? Kindergarten Five Senses Worksheet
A watermelon, an alarm clock, a feather, a rainbow and a flower, each followed by all five senses. Children circle the one they use most.
Color by Sense Five Senses Worksheet for Kindergarten
A color key gives each sense its own crayon, and ten pictures (two per sense) wait to be colored, from a ringing bell to a very smelly skunk.
Odd One Out Five Senses Worksheet for Kindergarten
One row per sense, four pictures in each, and one that does not belong, like a trumpet in the row for seeing or a stinky sneaker in the row for tasting.
Smell or Touch Sort Kindergarten Five Senses Worksheet
Color, cut out and glue ten pictures into Things I Smell or Things I Touch, from an onion and a trash bag to a cactus, an ice cube and a hedgehog.
Draw and Write Five Senses Worksheet for Kindergarten
Six boxes to draw in, with sentence starters underneath: I can see, I can hear, I can smell, I can taste, I can touch, and My favorite sense is.
One more thing.
If your kids finish a unit and you're not sure what to do next, our honest advice: don't move on yet. Spend a week mixing these in as warm-ups. Fluency isn't a unit, it's a habit, and the sheet that builds it is usually the one they ask to do again.
