Session Outline •Discuss our 5 senses and which part of our body we use to smell. In talk partners, discuss smells that they like. Explain that we are going to investigate scents in our outdoor area and make some perfume from nature.

• Each child is given a plastic cup & can pour some water (with added food colouring if desired to add effect!) into their ‘perfume cup.’

• The children can then explore their outdoor learning environment and collect tiny pieces of plants, rub them between their fingers to draw out the scent, and then add them to their perfume cup. (remind children about safety and the relevant RAs beforehand.)

• Depending on your outdoor area, you may set rules of how many/ which plants they may pick, alternatively you may want to provide some pre-collected natural materials, such as flowers & herbs, for them to choose from.

• Provide extra natural materials with strong scents to add to their perfumes such as lemon or orange rind (You could allow the children to peel this themselves; see Tool Task: Peelers: Nature Scents), ginger, garlic, cinnamon or spices.

• Allow children time to smell each other’s perfumes and describe them using descriptive vocabulary. Differentiation: HA: Can the children describe or name the items they are putting in and their scents? LA: Help and guidance with selection of materials for the best results. Extension: Can the children choose a name for their perfume? They could make a perfume label on a sticky label to stick to their plastic cup - children to verbalise, adult to write if necessary. You could create a role play perfume shop with the creations! You could create a herb garden before or after this task to reinforce the concept of nature’s scents. (See Outdoor Learning Site Development Ideas: Herb Garden/ Outdoor Knowledge: Planting Herbs for ideas

and information.)

Session Objectives Children will know that we smell with our nose. They explore different scents in their outdoor learning environment. Resources Plastic cups, water, food colouring, natural materials, sticky labels, pens. Tool Task: Peelers: Nature Scents Outdoor Learning Site Development Ideas: Herb Garden Outdoor Knowledge: Planting Herbs Key Vocabulary Senses, smell, nose, sweet, sharp, strong, floral, perfume, citrus, cool, scent, senses. Risk Assessments Generic Site RA; Peelers RA.

Curriculum Links

EYFS PSED: Confident to speak in a group about their ideas. C&L: Responds to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions. PD: Talks about how to keep safe. L: Uses vocabulary that is influenced by their experiences M: Uses everyday language to talk about capacity; Counts reliably. UW: Knows about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things; Talks about features of their own environment & how environments may vary from one another; Make observations of plants & animals; Explain why things occur & talk about changes. EAD: Experiments with colour, design, texture, function and form.

Learning Outcomes

LA - Children will investigate different scents in the natural

environment with guidance.

MA - Children will investigate different scents in the natural

environment.

HA - Children will investigate and describe different scents in the natural environment.

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