Children reacted with amazement and remarks of ‘no, you can’t’ when home-based childcarer Bridgit Brown commented that the flowers they were looking at could be consumed. Their interest led to the nature walk turning into a foraging project to make elderflower cordial.
‘It wasn’t planned, but seeing the elderflower bushes led to a spontaneous activity,’ says Ms Brown from Pebbles Childcare in Worthing, West Sussex. ‘There were such a huge amount of bushes at the children’s height that the children couldn’t fail to notice them. They were drawn to them by their vibrant white flowers and, because they are so distinctive, I was able to identify them as elderflower.’
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