Inflatables for children, cotton candy, soap bubbles, face painting, animations, performances artistic children from Ełk kindergartens, performances of guests from Lithuania – these are the main attractions planned during the opening of the Montessorian Sensory Garden. Festival scheduled for June 2 from 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m.

Garden Construction was possible thanks to cooperation with a partner from Lithuania, which is why the event will include guests m.in from our partner city of Alytus.

Program Revel:
10.00 a.m. Grand opening, symbolic ribbon cutting
Hours. 10.10 Occasional speeches
Hours. 10.30. Artistic part:

• MP "Sunny Eight" in Ełk
• Children from Lithuania (Lazdijaji, Alytus)
• MP "PEREŁKA" named after Jan Brzechwa in Ełk
• MP "BAJKA" in Ełk
• MP "Light" in Ełk
• MP "LITTLE EXPLORERS"
• Kindergarten No. 1 "EKOLUDKI" in Ełk
• Kinga Romanowska "PAARO" and children MP "Sunny Eight in Ełk"

11.00 a.m. End of the ceremony.

Information about the investment:

Montessori The Sensory Garden will be a public park of a sports and sports nature. Recreational. The garden will serve as a kind of "tutoring" the child's senses such as sight, smell, touch and support the so-called small motor skills.

Value of the investment under contract with the contractor is over PLN 1.58 million, of which slightly over PLN 1 million is co-financing under the project "Cross-border Community of Understanding" with INTERREG Lithuania – Poland Programme 2014-2020.

Montessori The Sensory Garden will be divided into 9 different zones, stimulating senses and developing a variety of skills and its users.

• Backyard games zone – equipped m.in in: backyard game boards: twister, Chinese, maze, game of classes, a game of letters.
• Fitness zone – designed on a sand surface, cushioning the fall. They are available there such devices as: ladder, fitness set, net /climbing, posts, movable platform, movable labyrinth.
• Sports games zone – devices in in this zone, they develop the ability to plan, work in a group and reflexes. Children will be able to play table tennis, chess and table football there.
• Acoustic zone – the zone will develop primarily everyone's hearing and sense of rhythm thanks to the drums available there, humming pipes, deaf phone, bells, dulcimers.
• Magnetic devices zone – devices in This zone is approximated and explained by a number of principles of physics that children will got to know thanks to such devices as: Newton's cradle, cuddly wall, mill wheel / "hamster", giant kaleidoscope, two mirrors, figures Lissajous.
• Central Square – here will be located m.in. sundial.
• Optical zone – devices in this zone such how to: crater (spatial vision), Newton's shield (colors), mirror., explain the manner in which optical illusions are formed;
• Practical zone – divided will be for two zones, i.e. an ecological garden and a sand zone.
• Relaxation and smell zone – leads to wicker tunnel; m.in benches for sitting, barbecue, a place for a bonfire with stumps to sit on and a hammock.

Each of the zones has been equipped with appropriate devices and elements of small architecture. The park has been covered by Monitoring.