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Lucy
Gardens - Gardening for Kids
Sensory Garden Plant
Hear
5 Senses
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A sensory garden is a wonderful idea for kid gardens as first of all the
children are aloud to touch !!! and truly expereince plants. An edible
garden is a garden that contains flowers, herbs, seeds, berries and plants
that you can eat. Children like large, brightly coloured flowers and vegetables
that grow quickly. Plants like sunflowers, corn and pumpkins are suitable.
You should also consider using varieties of plants that have sensory and
textural qualities as well. Sensory plants are plants that have special
smell, taste, touch, hear and sight qualities. , here we show you
our favorite kid garden plants for hearing and sounds
( suitable for 5 senses thematic unit)
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Sensory
Plants
Sound Sensory gardens
for Kids
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| Hear
Plants |
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Plants
for Sensory Gardens
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Grasses
Rattle Snake Grass
Greater quaking grass, Briza maxima
Bamboos
Bamboo Phyllostachys ( whispering sound)
Large Baboos ( great for making windchimes)
Animated Oats
Love in the Mist ( rattling seed heads)
Miscanthus oligostachyus 'Nanus Variegatus'( bamboo-like foliage that is
noisy)
Sweetcorn (rustles in the wind)
Canterbury bell (Campanula medium) attracts lost of buzzing bees
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Garden
Plants for |
| Touch |
| Taste |
| Smell |
| See |
| Hear |
Learn
all about wild fungi and see whether you can spot them in a woodland garden
Hear the rain when it
falls
Listen for the sound of the wind in the garden plants
listen out for the dawn chorus of the wild birds in a garden ( you need
to get up at dawn) |
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Garden Accessories |
~ encourage birds to
hear their bird song
~ build birdfeeders and bird baths
~ a moving water feature
~ wind chimes
~ encourage kids to build things that make a sound ( twigs, pebbles on a
string, ass seashell finds, craw through tunnels which tattling leaves)
~ add trampolines ( bouncing noise)
more details at the " Hear" Sensory Garden for Kids Page
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Sensory
Garden Plants for Kid Gardens
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Tip:Sensory
Garden Plant Hear
~ 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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