Grasshoppers at Kemerton Autumn Weekend 2nd and 3rd October

For the past couple of weeks both the nursery and after-school club children have been busy doing lots of craft activities to produce their works of art to become part of the displays relating to harvest in St. Nicholas Church, Kemerton.

Harvest of the Grain: The children made collages with the wheat, barley and grain they collected when they went to watch the combining.

They used flour made with wheat harvested in Overbury to make salt dough bread, which they will be using in their role play after the Harvest Weekend.

Harvest of the Flock: When making their colourful sheep, the children learned how the sheep’s wool (from Overbury sheep) is transformed to make the colourful yarn that makes their clothes, carpets and rugs.

Harvest of the Garden:

We had great fun printing with different fruit and vegetables collected when we walked to the Court’s kitchen garden.

Harvest of the Ocean: The older nursery children practised their cutting skills to make their colourful fish. The youngest children also enjoyed getting stuck in!!

British Food Fortnight Smoothies

We were very busy last week, out collecting ingredients for our smoothie to enter into the British Food Fortnight competition and trying out different recipes.

On Tuesday a group of children went out blackberry picking

When they got back to nursery they added them to the other ingredients and the children of all ages got involved in creating our first smoothie.

It tasted great, but wasn't quite right!

So on our walk on Wednesday we went in search of other ingredients. In the orchard leading up to nursery we picked some pears.

These children carried on on their walk so didn't have time to make a smoothie, but thier friends used the pears and the remaining blackberries in our second try on Thursday.

We're not quite sure if we have perfected our recipe, so we have been to collect more blackberries to keep trying, which will mean more tasting!!!