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Sensory Garden For Kids Touch
Sensory Garden for Kids Touch,Teaching Five Senses with Gardening for Kid
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Lucy
Gardens - Gardening for Kids
Sensory Garden for Kids
Touch
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~ to Touch and Feel
stuff in the garden and indeed to be actively invited to do so can make
all the difference in creating a happy little child garden and indeed
a kid gardener that enthusiastically participates in all gardening kid
activities
~ check out Mayas favourite Touch Garden ideas and see whehter you and
your kids get inspired too
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Kids Garden Activities
Sensory Garden for Kids
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Kid
Sensory Garden
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Touch Kids Garden Activities
~ add texture with differently feeling leaves that are safe to touch for
kids
~ create a little rockery with different sized, shaped and feeling rocks
that tumble among the plants, vary smooth pebbles with roughly hewn river
rocks
~ if you can add a little water feature , even a small pond where kids can
dunk their hands into the water or a little garden fountain sprinkling water
can be multisensory ( touch, see, hear the water fountain) ( always take
extra care where water features and small kids are concerned and add the
necessary saftey precautions !!!)
~ Soft lichens and mosses that are soft to the touch are Mayas favourite,
especially after the rain when water has collected in the moss and can be
squeezed about
~ if you have naturally low hanging branches these can be fun in a kids
garden - swinging upon branches, climbing up a tree , touching different
Tree barks are all excellent for the Touch experience in a kid garden
~ Smooth Stones (pebbles)
~ Textured Stones ( bricks, pathways)
~ wet/dry soil
~ Play bark
~ natural play equipment ( willow tunnels, treehouses , bean teepees)
~ soft Hammocks
~ Moss Seats
~ beautiful garden statues for kids
~ kids garden ponds ( touch water, slimey algae)
~ Stepping Stones
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5
Senses Garden Ideas |
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| Taste
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Sensory
Garden Experiences for
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to choose plants or the "TOUCH" Sensory Garden |
Plant
Suggestions for
Sensory Gardens
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~ when choosing
plants that are going to be touched in your kids garden:
~ make sure that plants are safe to touch ie dont have any poisionous
plant residue
~ plants that are going to be touched need to be hardy varieties that
can handle a bit of rough and tumble
~ make them easy
to reach, crawling low level along pathways or in raised beds
~ to add different textures think not only plants for kids but also
walkways and surfaces like paving slabs, playbark, crushed gravel (
which is also good for the Sound Sensory Garden Part when walked upon)
~ you can add different types fo screening like bamboo cane screening
or lattice fencing in different colours for added effect visually (
SEEING) and to touch ( nothing beats rattling a fingernail on a bamboo
fence ;-) ( Touching, Hearing)
~ suitable Plants
for Touching
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Touch
Sensory Garden for Kids Tips
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Tip:
~ it is always advisable to offer hand washing facilities near the touch
garden
~ take extra care when gardening with younger kids that easily put things
into their mouth , use touchy feely plants like herbs that are ok to consume
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