Five Senses Smell + Art • 3-5 years
What Do You Smell? Five Senses Art
A two-day smell conversation and art project with nose shapes, children’s ideas, and scented flower painting.
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Group Art Activity
Collaborative Flower Collage
A cheerful group art activity where children decorate paper petals and build one large classroom flower together.
Best for: Spring themes, classroom community, collaborative art, painting, and display boards.
Learning Goals
- Collaboration
- Creative expression
- Fine motor skills
- Color exploration
- Classroom community
Materials
- Large paper
- Petal shapes
- Paint or collage materials
- Glue
- Markers
- Scissors
How to Do the Activity
- Prepare a large flower center and petal shapes.
- Invite each child to decorate one or more petals.
- Let the pieces dry if using paint.
- Arrange the petals around the flower center.
- Glue everything onto a large backing paper.
- Display the flower as a classroom collaboration.
Questions to Ask Children
- What did you add to your petal?
- How do our petals look together?
- What colors do you notice?
- What does a flower need to grow?
- How did we make this as a group?
Teacher Tip: Write each child's name lightly on the back of their petal before assembling the collage.
