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Christian Education and horticultural activities change human physiology and influence their emotion. They also deepen thoughts and feelings during the activities and promote harmony between individuals’ internal and external worlds. We may combine horticultural therapy, which was developed from horticultural activities found effective in the process that the mentally disabled or the mentally retarded had agricultural activities. Particularly for special children, horticultural practice activities have been applied in the areas of functional recovery and vocational training, and showed effects in physical development and social growth. This study purposed to develop a horticultural practice program based on horticultural activities in order to solve psychological and emotional disorders appearing with the advance of society in children and furthermore in exceptional children, expecting its intellectual, social, emotional, and physical effects for children’s smooth adjustment to social activities. 1. Intellectual effects Learning new knowledge from horticultural activities and utilizing the knowledge and techniques, people can converse and communicate with others more easily. That is, horticultural activities increase curiosity, sharpen observation, and cultivate abilities to judge and cope with through interpreting the results of observation. Repeating such experiences makes individuals positive and confident. 2. Social effects From horticultural activities, individuals learn what their roles are. Furthermore, they learn it is more effective to respect others’ rights, cooperate, and divide responsibility in order to work together. Furthermore, they have experiences such as going to the market to buy the materials of horticultural activities or meeting people good at gardening to get necessary information. In addition, they may give others what they have made and this may enhance interpersonal relations and provide a means of awaking the value of their existence and finding the meaning of life. 3. Emotional effects Plants have an emotional effect even just through their being around, but horticultural activities through the medium of plants: first, increase confidence and price; second, develop self‐control; and third, give hopes of the future. Furthermore, they cultivate creativity and self‐expression. 4. Physical effect Horticultural activities are helpful to small and large muscle exercises. In doing flower arrangement, one should walk around to buy necessary materials and tools and cut plants with scissors. The use of the hands stimulates the cerebrum and accelerates the functional recovery of fingers or hands. In addition, moving the works of flower arrangement stimulates the balance sense. Particularly for special children, horticultural activities are effective in: first, easing anxiety and tension; second, making creative expressions; third, controlling impulses; fourth; learning how to endure frustration through failures; fifth, practicing planning, preparing and judging; and sixth, enhancing subjective satisfaction in their own behavior and its results.