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Craftbits.com has had a major makeover. Gone is the knitting lady and her litle black cat and in is the fun creative layered design which represents craft tables around the world, layered with lists, inspirational images and doodles of projects promised and projects past.
Take a look at the new design and let us know what you think of our new look sister site. We also have lot’s of giveaways to coincide with the re-launch.
One of the subjects that’s often covered in preschool is learning about the five senses. Understanding our senses helps us describe the world around us and our experience in it, and it’s fun to explore the senses in different ways.
Rock Your Homeschool has a great free printables pack having to do with the five senses. I love the foldable activity shown above because it emphasizes that the way we really experience our senses is through our brains. They also have a sensory scavenger hunt printable, which doesn’t include taste but has the rest of the senses included.
Of course we don’t really want kids tasting things they find outside (unless you happen to have fruit or vegetables growing nearby) but I like the way Hands on Teaching Ideas handled it by including “something an animal would eat” on their five senses scavenger hunt.
Sea of Knowledge has lots of ideas for things to do with preschoolers to learn about the five senses, as well as this free with email signup template for making a five senses craft (you could also trace the child’s hands instead of using the hands in the template if you like).
Use a potato head toy you probably already have to play a five senses game with the download from A Little Pinch of Perfect. You could do the same thing on paper with a potato (or human body) shape and color on the different sense organs.
Simple Everyday Mom has a cute set of senses puppets you can print and play with, or use for different projects and crafts.
Preschool Packets has a whole set of posts dealing with teaching the five senses (the one linked here is for hearing but the rest are linked within that post), which includes a great idea for making shakers with kids to explore the sense of hearing.
Tim’s Printables has some cute five senses printables where kids can match the image to the sense you’d use to explore it. There’s also a body to label but I think there’s only a male version.
Love it! Great layout and more colorful.
Really fresh design – like the wood panelling background – nice work!
Love it!!
Though I love Craftbits, I have to admit I really do not care for the new site design.
The old site was very clean and inviting. The new design is so cluttered and over-worked that it really makes it difficult to navigate with the same ease as before.
The lined paper background also makes it very difficult to read the text.
I truly mean no offense, but I would love to see this new site design cleaned and sharpened up some.