Oct. 29, 2003

How Touchy Are You?

Discover how sensitive your sense of touch is.

Cut a piece of cardboard to make two triangular "teeth" (see below). The points of the teeth should be 3/4 inch apart.

Place the two teeth on your left cheek. Slowly drag the two teeth down your cheek and across your mouth. One point should be above your mouth and the other below it. Keep dragging them up your right cheek.

Amazingly you will feel only one point on your left cheek that will become two and appear to spread apart as you pass over your mouth. The points seem to come together again on your right cheek. Clearly, your skin is much more sensitive around your mouth than on your cheeks.

Activity from Feeling Your Way: Discover Your Sense of Touch by Vicki Cobb. Published by Millbrook Press. Text copyright © 2001 by Vicki Cobb. Used by permission (www.vickicobb.com).

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