Scissors and Herbs

In honor of N-week, we used our nose for this project and some scissors. We were smelling mint, cilantro, parsley, rosemary and onions. The goal was to snip the herbs in small pieces then try to distinguish the scents...blindfolded!

First we talked about the names of each. Except for the mint, he was familiar with all of them. When I asked what he thought each smelled like, he would only say the parsley smelled like celery.
Once he started snipping the onion, he realized it was hollow. Look mom, they're glasses!

Below he's cutting the onion, but his favorite was the mint. Never found out why he was drawn to the mint - was it easier to cut? smelled better than the rest? Lips were locked. Loose lips sink ships, ya know.

Confession: when I'm concentrating I also do weird things with my tongue.

Even though I tried to get tender rosemary clippings there were a few woody ones that were more difficult to cut.

We've done a few games where he's blindfolded and it hasn't gone so well. I really wasn't sure if he would participate with the final part but he did - though he tried his darnedest to peek.

After he properly identified all five herbs with his smeller, he insisted that I don the blindfold and label them correctly. A bit leery, I did it. I have to admit I wanted to peek because I was fearful of what Mr Intensity would do with scissors while I was blindfolded!

Crazy enough, all these herbs were in my fridge or on my patio. If you don't use herbs, use other things to snip and identify like grass, flowers, leaves, pine cones, apple peels...whatever fits your fancy.

To see what others did with this week's Unplugged project, go here.