Encourage your students to draw while looking through magnifying glasses. Mix colors in jars of water with food coloring or water color paints. Fill a shoebox with a few different objects and have the children take turns choosing an item from the box. Place the selected items on a table and tell the kids to close their eyes. Remove one of the items and have the children open their eyes and tell you which item is missing.
Blindfold students and line up differently sized objects; have them organize the shapes in order from smallest to largest. Make goop from 1/2 cup cornstarch and 1/4 cup water, dye the mixture with a few drops of food coloring and allow the children to play with it. Have the kids take off their shoes and socks; roll out large sheets of bubble wrap and let them jump on it barefoot. Fill small kiddie pools with cooked spaghetti, styrofoam peanuts, shaving cream and cotton; blindfold the students and help them step in the pools carefully. Have them describe the textures they feel and see if they can guess what they are standing in.
Create sound shakers with prescription bottles from a pharmacy filled with different objects like pennies, seeds, small rocks, popcorn kernels, rice or paperclips. Make at least two of each object and have children shake the containers to try matching them up. Go for a walk outside with your students and ask each child to tell you what he or she hears at different intervals during the walk. Ask students to imitate the noises they heard while walking using their voices.
Send notes home with your students explaining that you are incorporating food in an upcoming lesson and request that each parent notify you immediately of any food allergies their child may have. Avoid using peanut products, tree nuts, gluten products, dairy products, eggs, berries, soy, fish and meats. Finger paint with pudding on wax paper. Provide a salty food, a sweet food, a tangy food and a sour food. Blindfold the children and let them sample and identify each food or flavor. Take votes on what food tasted the best and worst.
Fill several film canisters halfway with smelly foods like popcorn, tuna, coffee grounds, cocoa powder and strawberry milk mix. Poke holes in the lids of the canisters and have the children guess what substances are in each. Cut out gingerbread man shapes on sheets of brown sandpaper and let the kids rub cinnamon sticks over the cutouts.