As a child's teacher a parent has many important concepts to teach including how to use the five senses to learn about the world. Parents can help children focus on their sense of sight by placing four or five objects on a tray .Give children one minute to look at all of the items and then cover the tray and ask the children to share what they saw on the tray. Parents can teach children how to identify foods by smell .Start by gathering a variety of items with different odors cover children's eyes and have them smell each thing and guess what it is. Children can become more familiar with their sense of touch by playing with materials like homemade or store bought modeling dough clay water and gelatin. Children can learn to identify foods by taste with this activity .Parents just need to gather up different foods and have children cover their eyes as they taste each one Parents can help to develop a sense of hearing and listening by helping children listen to objects and animals and use a tape recorder to record sounds of these objects and animals.