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Sensory Garden Plant
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Sensory Garden Plant Hear a Kids Garden, Gardening for Kids and 5 Senses Study

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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
Plants for Sensory Gardens
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


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)
Hear 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
Sensory Garden Plants for Kid Gardens
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