School garden design

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.

Way back in April, we announced our project, Design a School Garden with LAUSD (and We'll Build It!). Over the next few weeks we received 40 submissions from all over the country (and a few outside of it as well), with ideas from architects, teachers, gardeners, and parents abou...

Architecture is the science of environment creation, the manipulation of spatial organizations to fit the needs of its users.

Spending time in the garden can awaken the senses of touch, smell, and taste, and attune a child to the subtler sights and sounds of nature.

Notice the stepping stones are math problems? Numerous opportunities for lessons with students here.

Vo Trong Nghia talks about natural ventilation at Binh Duong School in this movie from the World Architecture Festival.

Learn how to plan with your children in mind when deciding on a garden design.

Want to get your children’s creative juices flowing and spend time with them? Check this post for DIY garden ideas for kids and create unforgettable memories.

Gardening has many benefits for children. While it has great health and social implications, it also offers brilliant hands on experience for learning. Inspired by the school and community garden stories, we’ve put together a guide to help get you started – from thinking about how to use the space, to how to involve the children and school community.