Gardening is a ‘sense-sational’ way to engage kids in outdoor learning and play! With their incredible diversity of shapes, sizes, colors, scents, and textures, plants offer limitless options for designing a garden space to engage all the senses.
KidsGardening is excited to team up with our friends at Little Seeds Kids to bring you a new activity kit full of ideas for starting your own sensory garden. The 8-page kit compiles sensory garden design tips and plant suggestions along with an assortment of fun and engaging activities you can try with young gardeners with or without a garden space.
![Screen Shot 2024-04-18 at 10.46.08 AM Benefits of Sensory Gardening. Help kids interact with and make sense of the world around them. Develop fine motor skills. Provide therapeutic benefits. Engage senses without over-stimulating. Support emotional regulation. Encourage exploration. Advance language development and communication skills. Foster brain development by building nerve connections. Cultivate connection to nature and community.](https://i0.wp.com/kidsgardening.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-2024-04-18-at-10.46.08-AM.png?resize=1080%2C935&ssl=1)
Benefits of sensory gardening
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