Easy to follow lesson plan that I did with my Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary school students.
What you need:
essential oils
flowers if available
herbs
you can use anything that has a smell
small bags (so you can hide what the smell is)
small stripes of paper (if you are using oils)
The Lesson:
First we talked about how different smells can remind us of different things. We have happy memories and sad ones and they are all OK.
I explained to my students that today they won't see what we have to draw, they going to smell it and think about what does that smell reminds them. I didn't want this lesson to turn into a guessing game. Their task was to smell either the bag or the paper with essential oils on them and think hard what memories they have about that smell. Is it a place, a person, a situation or a time of the year? Then the draw it.
We had a lot of different drawing based on personal preferences. Some hated the smell of rosemary and draw monsters, some loved it and draw landscapes with unicorns. There is no right or wrong. There is no help either! This is why I love this lesson. Especially with older students, we all face the problem that they want to copy things. If they have to draw something they all reach for their phones to find an example. In this lesson the only thing that they can use is their imagination.
You will have to be conscious about the country that you are in. There are traditional things that all kids know and have memories of. Europe - Christmas (who wouldn't recognise the smell of a gingerbread), Middle East - Oud (you can smell it in the shopping center, as parfume), Far East - spices. It's always worth to have some country specific things and also some surprises. :)
Have fun and leave a comment if you tried it!
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