Make a Sensory Sculpture

Do you know what your senses are? When you touch, smell, see, taste or hear something, you are using one of your senses. A sensory sculpture is a sculpture that uses your senses. You might be able to see it, hear it or smell it!

YOU WILL NEED

• A glass or plastic bottle or a jam jar with a lid

• Some plasticine or sticky tack to fill the top of the bottle

• Scissors

• Tape

• Water

• Food colouring
  To add the ‘sensory’ parts of the sculpture you could choose from many different objects. Here are some ideas:

• Coloured card, scrap paper or newspaper

• Tissue paper or crepe paper

• Fabric (maybe an old sock, scarf or t-shirt that you don’t use anymore and can be cut up)

• Tin foil or baking parchment

• Shiny plastic wrappers or sticky-back plastic

• Baking beads

Find the full resource on Tate Kids: www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-sensory-sculpture