Smelling Jars

*ACTIVITY:*	Montessori Smelling Jars
*MATERIALS:*	Two wooden boxes each containing six smelling bottles each The six, paired Smelling bottles, contain a different smelling essence, e.g. teatree, lavender water, etc.
*OBJECTIVES:*	To develop a sensorial awareness of smell.
*CONTROL OF ERROR:*	The bottom of the bottles can be coded-coded to provide a control of error. The inside of the lids are coloured in a similar way to prevent the wrong lids being replaced on the wrong bottles and so mixing up the smells.
*AGE:*	3 - 6 years approx. First, she takes a bottle from side A, smell it, passes to the child to smell and says, 'we are looking for this smell'. Encourage the child to go through the bottles on side B to find the matching bottles. When a match is found, the pair of bottle is placed in the middle between the two rows of bottles. Continue matching the two sets of bottles.

Montessori Smelling Jars