The Badge Archive

Activity ideas

Explore sense of sight

Activities

• Kim’s Game
  • Virtual Kim’s Game
  • JGL Kim’s Game
• visual scavenger hunt
  • Yard Scavenger Hunt
  • Magazine Scavenger Hunt
  • Photography Scavenger Hunt
• See things with a magnifying glass
• Window Hunt
• Doggie, Doggie, Where’s Your Bone
• Observation Challenge
• Optical Illusions
• Color Blindness
• Mirror Challenge – write backwards!

Craft

• Vision in Motion
• Hole in Your Hand
• Make a Sensory Bottle to hunt for object inside it

Explore sense of sound

Activities

• 10 Different Sounds
• Sound Guessing Game
• Sound Boxes
• Listen with earplugs and without
• Learn about Koalas sound organ
• Learn about Electret Microphones
• Honkers
• Learn GS Promise in Sign Language

Craft

• Make a Sensory Bottle that uses sound

Explore sense of smell

Activities

• Bag of Smells
• Follow a Scent Trail
• Smell Boxes
• Blindfolded Smell Test
• Smell Test Experiment
• Learn about Smell Memory

Explore sense of taste

Activities

• Look at Taste Buds
• Change color of food and see if sight affects taste
• Taste test salty, sweet, bitter, and sour
• Take a Taste Test
• Jelly Bean Taste Test

Explore sense of touch

Activities

• Blindfold Touch Challenge
• Try an arm or leg touch test
• Touch It, Draw It
• Brain Power
• Write Your Name In Braille
• Fall Sensory Bins
• Sensory Boxes
• Items in a Pillow Case
• Temperature Brain Twist

Craft

• Feel wheel of smooth, rough, sticky, bumpy, hard, squishy, or hairy
• Sensory Board

Field Trip Ideas

Make sure all requirements are met when going or have a pre-field trip meeting to hit the requirements.

• Local farmers market – new foods & smells
• Visit a store specializing in tea and tea blends. Compare aromas and try an herbal tea.
• Go to a store catering to people with visual or hearing impairments and talk about adaptations and technology.
• Go to a grocery store or restaurant offering foods most of the girls have not tried before.
• Art Museum Scavenger Hunt
• International Spy Museum in Washington DC

Guest Speaker Ideas

Make sure all requirements are met when there are there or have a meeting before or after the guest speaker to hit the requirements.

• Invite someone to share their knowledge of Braille or American Sign Language.
• Invite a musician to share her music.