School sensory garden

At Hand Made Places, we’ve created a free guide to designing sensory gardens for school playgrounds for unusual and inclusive school gardening club ideas.

Spring is slowly approaching and it’s time to get planning on how you can make enrichment areas outdoors for them to play in. We found the best play areas you can easily create that will have your child happier than can be to get outside and play.

By: Christina Hughey A sensory garden is designed to stimulate the senses. This stimulation occurs from plants and other things found in the garden. Sensory gardens are wonderful for children, including special needs children who can really benefit from sensory items. Sensory gardens provide a fun learning experience in a safe environment, even connecting

An old tatty patio area, take some false grass, a sail shade, some rope fencing and outdoors activities like chimes and mirror and here you have it. A great sensory garden area for the residents to enjoy. Result!

Kids today are engaging in outdoor play less frequently than previous generations. Research has shown a significant decline in outdoor playtime, with only 31% of children playing outside daily compared to 70% of their parents during childhood. This reduction in playtime is concerning, especially given the rise of sensory processing disorders and autism spectrum disorders among children. Multi-sensory playgrounds can help to address this problem and encourage healthy child development. Be a…