Garden Themes for Creating a Garden for Children   Garden Themes Alphabet Garden Designate sections of the garden to specifice letters of the alphabet. Plants with the beginning letter A all go in one area. Continue until you have gone from A to Z Animal Garden Include topiaries and artwork of animals and animal shapes Butterfly Garden Include plants that attract butterflys If the plants attract butterflys, remember they also attract bees. Cereal Garden Kids like to know where their food comes from. Use plants that are edible Dinosaur Garden Use big, old plants to resemble the time frame of the dinosaur age. Hide fossils in the plants so that the children have to find them. Kids Books Garden Prune plants in shapes of story book characters - Peter Rabbit, Alice Wonderland, etc. Pizza Garden Use herbs that can be found in the toppings of pizza. Rainbow Garden Place plant material so that they bloom in the colors of the rainbow. Put a fake pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Raised Beds Place glass around base, so that kids can see the root structures. Sensory Garden Use plant material that relates to the sense of touch, smell, taste, and sight. Sundial Garden Use plant material with TIME names. Examples of Plant Choices for these Themes   - Artemisa - Butterfly Bush - Cosmos - Daisy   - Boxwood - good for pruning - Catnip - cats love this stuff   - Beebalm - Coreopsis   - Barley - Oats - Wheat    - Ferns - a type of them were around when dinosaurs were on the earth.     - Boxwood - good for pruning - Yews - good for pruning and shaping - Basil - Oregano   - Salvia - red - Coreopsis - yellow - Veronica (speedwell) - blue   - Any herbaceous plant material   - Lamb's Ear - touch - Mint - smell   - Daylilies - Morning glories Home