For those of you who have never been on MSU's campus, its beauty was a major reason for choosing it. It's gorgeous here. There are beautiful gardens everywhere. It's simply a very pretty campus. The Children's Garden has been there forever and I have many fond memories of it. Several years ago, parking there was free, so we would park in the garden before shows at the Wharton, walk around in the garden for a bit, and then stroll over to the theater. There are huge chimes on the ground that you make sound by jumping on top of them,
ponds with frogs and fish, things to climb on, water fountains to squirt...it's a glorious place to be a kid. Or a grown-up who wishes he or she was a kid. They added a lot of bricking at one point, and people were able to purchase bricks. We have one for Granna from the grandkids. We can never remember where it is in the garden, though, so we have to hunt everytime.
For those of you who have never been on MSU's campus, its beauty was a major reason for choosing it. It's gorgeous here. There are beautiful gardens everywhere. It's simply a very pretty campus. The Children's Garden has been there forever and I have many fond memories of it. Several years ago, parking there was free, so we would park in the garden before shows at the Wharton, walk around in the garden for a bit, and then stroll over to the theater. There are huge chimes on the ground that you make sound by jumping on top of them,
ponds with frogs and fish, things to climb on, water fountains to squirt...it's a glorious place to be a kid. Or a grown-up who wishes he or she was a kid. They added a lot of bricking at one point, and people were able to purchase bricks. We have one for Granna from the grandkids. We can never remember where it is in the garden, though, so we have to hunt everytime.
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Actually, the Children's Garden hasn't been there forever. Just YOUR MI forever! My Lab Preschool kids were interviewed about what they would like to see in a garden - several groups of kids were involved in this. Many of their ideas were incorporated into the plans. The bricks were part of the original plan and were part of the fund-raising effort.
Shortly after opening, the garden was featured on Good Morning, America; my clsss got to be on that show and to shout "G. M., A." from the treehouse.
Granna
Yeah, the Children's Garden is so new that I've never been there. I remember a late-Spring Saturday afternoon; I took my youngest niece, her friend, & a loaf of bread for the ducks. We saw 4 weddings in the Botannical & Horticultural gardens.
Jon
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