Some of the children found brambles growing through our garden fence. They showed a responsible awareness of what may be safe to touch and what may not be safe. They asked a staff member if they could pick some.

They also followed instructions to clean their fruit. They were excited to taste them.

“They taste like strawberries”

We decided to go on a safe forage for brambles.

We walked together along the woodland path to find ripe fruit. We plan to make something tasty with them. Child C thought “Berry soup” sounds yummy.

Some berries were not safe to pick

“Just pick the black ones” “The others are not ready yet”

We washed them and decided to make something yummy using brambles and porridge oats from our Goldilocks and the 3 bears story.

We followed a recipe perfectly. We used scales to weigh the exact amounts of flour, sugar, butter and oats.

We mixed it with our clean hands.

Topped the brambles with crumble

It was then time for the oven.

We had a vote on the taste. There were more thumbs down than thumbs up