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Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has a sensory garden in their setting?
the play team on our ward have been informed of an opportunty to better utilise our playground and asked for any ideas on how we could do this as well and some amazing playing apparartus ect I suggested a sort of garden area maybe with some herbs and scented flowers something we could use during a sensory room expirence, the rep seemed really keen on this idea and said that he had not long started doing this for schools ect as a sort of multipsensory area where you can have groups of children doing activities or story time (like a mulitsensory story sack! lol) . He asked me to do some research into the idea and see what ideas I could come up with on doing this:reading: I have found mostly parks ect that have lots of scented flowers and bubbling ponds,brooks, gardens of remberence areas like the ones we already have at our hospital but I havn't so far found one catered specifically for children on a childrens unit. does anyone have any ideas? or know of a childrens hospitals,school ect that has a sensory garden?.
I would greatly appreaciate any input!
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I did run across a sensory garden page in the rhino catalogue that helped me come up with ideas for our sensory garden we will hopfully be built in the new year!! have a peek:
http://www.rhino-uk.org.uk/catalogue.html
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We have our sensory garden it looks amazing! Especially with all the butterlies wormery, ant home,mini beast trap door,squirell feeder and lots of colourful wind chimes pinwheels ect cant wait till all the playground is finished and we can start getting the kids out thereforstory time ect!
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wow, sounds amazing, let us know if any photos are uploaded anywhere xx well done :)
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Thanks Ruthierhyme!
I will do as soon as everythings finished I will take a few snaps :)
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