Parents looking for something for their kids to do during Children’s Week in Hobsons Bay, only need to follow their nose.
Smell Art is a smell education workshop run by scent designer Erin Adams and is one of many attractions to feature during Children’s Week which runs from October 19 to 27.
Ms Adams said smell education was pretty self explanatory.
“Teaching people about the science of how their sense of smell works,” she said, adding that the lessons were designed to be fun.
“I have a workshop I run called a smell party. It’s teaching kids how smell works, but it’s through playing a range of fun smell games.”
Sorry, a smell party? Smell games?
“For some of them they have to identify scents, so they have to match up smells with the name of that smell,” explained Ms Adams of one of her most popular smell game activities.
“They also do a memory game where they wear a blindfold and smell different objects and have to remember which object they smelt. And we also learn about the difference between taste and smell and how that makes up our experience of flavour.”
Ms Adams works a scent designer when not doing smell parties and said her smell expertise was entirely self taught.
“I went to a music concert with many years ago with scent in the air and I wanted to do that,” she explained.
“I then lived overseas and learnt how to do it in Berlin.”
And on Sunday, October 20 at the Newport Community Centre, she’ll be doing it in Hobsons Bay.
Details: shorturl.at/ogrAO
