The Magical Children’s Garden
The Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden has been developed specially for children. The first week of its opening welcomed more than 16,000 young visitors through its gates.
With the theme that all life depends on plants, the Garden is crafted with carefully designed features to encourage exploration, learning and enjoyment. While the rather spartan playground entertains the very wee ones, the Children’s Garden holds the magic key to wonderful secret world of Plants for the young visitors.
Children busy looking out for the ‘animals’ at the A-Maze-ing Play
A fantastic forest for adventure and discovery trail of amazing plants stimulates imagination and creates a sense of curiosity and wonder. The Garden comes alive as a living Classroom. Special plants and features include an interactive display on photosynthesis combine fun with learning about the most basic life-support process. A very special pond with a floating platform allows children to discover the secret of the “unsinkable” plants. The Potting Garden gives children their first joy at planting.
The Potting Garden - where children can experience the fun of growing plants and get their hands dirty.
A Herb and Spice Potpurri class being conducted at one of the four ‘Living’ classrooms in the Children’s Garden
I overhead one young fella telling his friends, “this is the happiest place in Singapore!” I wondered to myself is this an advertising wizard in the making? Such a young boy but what a nice tagline! I hope so and I hope his love for plants will be cultivated through his visits to the Children’s Garden and one day we will have an advertising wizard who has a strong love of plants and all things green.
What a heart-warming thought.
By Dr Wong Wei Har