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Let’s go step by step to match each child with the correct sense word.

We have 5 children and 5 words:
hear, touch, smell, taste, see

Look at what each child is doing:

1. Top left child – Standing still, hands at sides, looking forward. No special action shown. But wait — let’s look closer at all of them.

Actually, let’s examine each one carefully:

- Top middle child: Hands covering eyes → This means they are NOT using their eyes → So this is about seeing (or not seeing). The word “see” fits here because covering eyes blocks sight.

Wait — actually, in these kinds of worksheets, the action shows which sense is being used or blocked. Let’s think again.

Better approach: Match the action to the sense it relates to.

Child 1 (top left): Just standing? Hmm… maybe we need to look at the bottom row too.

Bottom row:

- Left child: Holding a flower near nose → That’s for smell
- Right child: Dancing with music notes around head → Music = sound → That’s for hear

Now top row:

- Middle child: Covering eyes → Related to see (because you cover eyes when you don’t want to see)
- Right child: Hand over mouth? Or maybe licking lips? Wait — looks like hand near mouth, possibly tasting something? Actually, looking closely: the child has hand near mouth, and tongue might be out? Not clear. But there’s another clue.

Wait — let’s list all actions clearly:

From left to right, top row:

1. Child standing normally — no obvious action? Maybe this is “touch”? But how?

Hold on — perhaps I misread. Let me re-analyze based on standard worksheet logic.

Standard matching:

- Child smelling flower → smell
- Child dancing with music notes → hear
- Child covering eyes → see (as in, related to vision)
- Child with hand near mouth / sticking tongue out → taste
- Then the remaining child must be touch

Who’s left?

Top left child: Standing, arms down — but maybe he’s feeling his clothes? Or perhaps it’s implied that he’s using touch by just existing? That doesn’t make sense.

Wait — look again at the top right child: She has her hand up to her face, near her nose/mouth area. Could she be tasting? Or smelling?

But the bottom left child is clearly smelling a flower.

Another idea: Perhaps the top right child is licking her lips or has food near mouth → that would be taste

Then who is touch?

The only one left without an obvious sense is the top left child. What could he be doing? He’s standing — maybe he’s feeling the ground? Or perhaps it’s a trick.

Wait — let’s count:

Words: hear, touch, smell, taste, see

Actions:

1. Bottom left: Smelling flower → smell
2. Bottom right: Dancing with music → hear
3. Top middle: Covering eyes → see
4. Top right: Hand near mouth, possibly tasting → taste
5. Top left: Only one left → must be touch

But why is top left “touch”? Maybe he’s touching his own body? Or perhaps it’s assumed that standing involves touch (feet on ground)? In many such worksheets, if a child isn’t doing anything specific for other senses, and others are taken, it defaults to touch.

Alternatively, maybe I missed something.

Look again at top left child: Is he holding anything? No. But perhaps the key is that he’s the only one not engaged in a sensory-blocking or sensory-using action except for general presence.

In educational materials, sometimes “touch” is represented by a child simply standing or reaching — but here, none are reaching.

Wait — another possibility: The top right child might be blowing air or something? No.

Perhaps the top left child is meant to represent “touch” because he’s the only one whose hands are visible and not covering anything — so he can touch things.

This is tricky, but let’s go with elimination:

Assigned:

- Smelling flower → smell
- Dancing with music → hear
- Covering eyes → see
- Hand near mouth (likely tasting) → taste
- Remaining → touch → top left child

Yes, that makes sense.

So final matches:

Top row, left to right:
1. Touch
2. See
3. Taste

Bottom row, left to right:
4. Smell
5. Hear

Now, the instruction says: “Cut out the words, match to the children and glue.”

So we assign:

- Top left child → touch
- Top middle child → see
- Top right child → taste
- Bottom left child → smell
- Bottom right child → hear

Final Answer:

Top left: touch
Top middle: see
Top right: taste
Bottom left: smell
Bottom right: hear