Explore Five Senses Craft with Your Students

When it comes to writing descriptive poetry, the five senses are a poet’s best friend! By writing about how a topic tastes, feels, smells, looks or sounds, poets can paint a more complete and complex picture of the topic they are describing.

Teach your littlest learners how to describe a topic or experience using the five senses with Teach Starter’s Five Senses Craft Activity. Perfect for hands-on learning, these activities encourage students to describe a variety of common topics using all sight, smell, touch, taste and sound.

Each craft activity includes:

• Brainstorming Page – Students will list what the object or experience looks like, feels like, smells like, sounds like and tastes like. Students will use their favourite descriptions from each category to use in their five senses craft. 
• Feature Craft Component – Each topic includes a feature component that will become the centerpiece for the five senses craft. The students need to color in this centerpiece, cut it out and paste it onto a large piece of paper or cardstock.  
• Five Additional Components – Each topic includes five additional components upon which the students will write what the topic feels, smells, sounds, tastes and looks like. These are cut out and pasted around the centerpiece.

The included topics are:

• The Beach (featuring a sandcastle with buckets)
• The Snow (featuring a snowman with snowballs)
• Apples (featuring a fruit bowl with apples)
• Ice Cream (featuring cones and ice cream scoops)
• Popcorn (featuring a bucket and popped popcorn)

Two completed examples are shown on the first page of the resource.

How Does This Five Senses Craft Benefit Students?

Teaching students to describe objects and experiences using their five senses deepens their observational skills and helps them create fuller, more vivid descriptions in their writing. This activity allows students to actively engage with each sense, reinforcing how sight, sound, smell, taste and touch work together to give us a complete picture of the world. By physically crafting each topic and adding sensory details, students develop a stronger, more concrete understanding of how sensory language enhances description.

Download These Five Senses Craft Templates

Use the dropdown menu on the Download button above to access the PDF or editable Google Slides file. (Note: You will be prompted to make a copy of the Google Slides template before accessing it).

As this worksheet pack contains multiple versions of the writing templates, we recommend printing one copy of the entire file. You may then wish to remove the pages you wish to use before copying them for your students.

This resource was created by Samantha Rose, a teacher in Florida and a Teach Starter collaborator.

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