Children experience new sensations with sensory garden

Jean’s Playglen staff, pupils and parents worked hard to create a magical recycled sensory garden for the pupils to enjoy.

Recycled goods such as old hula hoops, golf balls, tennis balls, bottle tops, tyres, plastic pipes and various bottles were all used throughout the garden to create different shapes and textures such as hard, soft, rough and smooth.

Herbs and plants bordering the garden add the sensation of smell as well as texture and aesthetic pleasure.

Jean Dearman, owner and principal of Jean’s Playglen said that the children had taken so well to the concept and just loved playing in the garden, experiencing all the different sensations.