We're ending senses week with a taste adventure. Your little one tries sweet fruits and sour fruits side by side, makes their best sour face, and decides which side of the plate they like best.

The land is hot and dry. One by one, the animals notice clues that rain is on its way. They smell it, see the lightning, hear the thunder and feel the first drops. When the rain finally comes, everything turns green and the animals enjoy it, until the land slowly dries again.

Is there a better sound than popping bubble wrap? Today it becomes a counting game. You write numbers on a strip of bubble wrap, and your little one pops that many bubbles, counting (and listening) as they go.

Our noses can take us on a trip! People around the world use spices and herbs that smell wonderful: cinnamon, ginger, cumin, basil, vanilla and many more. The smells in your kitchen might remind you of family, holidays and favorite meals.

We've spent the week trying each sense. Today we put them together. Before we even see something, our senses can give us clues: we smell cookies baking, we hear the bath running, we feel rain on our skin. Each clue helps us figure out what's happening.

Soft, bumpy, scratchy, smooth. Today your little one makes a collage they can feel with their fingers. They choose materials from around the house, glue them down, then touch each one and name how it feels.

Today snack time turns into a listening experiment. Your little one tastes a few foods, listens closely to each bite, and sorts them into crunchy, soft or somewhere in between. It's the loudest science test you'll ever do.

Animal after animal makes its own sound: cats purr, lions roar, owls hoot, bees buzz and dogs growl. On each page, the children in the book listen. At the end they share what makes people special: we speak!

All you need is a cup of water and a brush. Today your little one paints letters on a fence, wall or path with plain water, then watches them slowly disappear as they dry. It's magic, it's mess-free, and they'll want to do it again and again.

The book takes each sense in turn: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. For each one, it pairs clear photos of everyday things with simple words that describe them, like cold, crunchy, colorful, soft and loud. It encourages kids to notice what's around them and find the words to talk about it.

Today we're learning D. For toddlers the goal isn't writing it. It's hearing the /d/ sound at the start of words like dog, duck and dad, and connecting it to the shape of D: a straight line and a big curve.

It's Letter D day, so snack time is all about the /d/ sound, like dip. Your little one hears the sound again and again, dunks, dips and crunches, and builds a big D out of snacks before eating it.

It's senses week, and we're kicking it off with a snack your little one explores with their whole body. The Five Senses Snack Tray has one little section for each sense: something colorful to look at, something crunchy to listen to, something to smell, something to touch and something to taste. They

What happens to the world when you look at it through red? Or blue? Today your little one makes a simple handheld viewer with a colored window, then looks at the same objects through each color to see how everything changes.

With a title like that, how could we not start senses week here? I Hear a Pickle (and Smell, See, Touch, and Taste It, Too!) by Rachel Isadora is a bright, funny tour of the five senses through the everyday moments of young children.

We've met 1, 2 and 3. Today we add one more and get 4. Four is easy to spot once you start looking: four legs on a dog, four wheels on a car and four corners on a square.

A full week of five senses activities for ages 2 to 4: tasting and listening snacks, simple projects, favorite books, talk-about-it questions and free printables, all in one place.

Everything we use for Letter D in one place: a snack plate, a quick talk, a letter game, a book and a free tracing page. For parents and caregivers of children ages 2 to 4.

Everything we use for the number 4 in one place: a quick talk, a counting game, a snack, a book and a free tracing page. For parents and caregivers of children ages 2 to 4.