One sunny autumn day, the children at Ely and Caerau Nursery School and Integrated Children’s Centre in Cardiff went into the garden to play. Suddenly Chester called us to see a magnificent mushroom growing under the tree. He was fascinated by the mushroom and keen to pick it. Diane went to get Chester a pair of gloves, explaining that we had to be careful as some mushrooms can be poisonous. Chester broke the mushroom into pieces, looking really closely at the various parts. He wanted to show me the mushroom and very soon several other children had come to see what he had found. Chester decided he wanted to paint the mushroom red. The paint really highlighted the mushroom’s patterns and textures.
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