Darwin and Bear had a great day at Hillier Gardens yesterday.  We enjoyed the beautiful gardens in lovely weather and were kept very busy with lots of exciting activities.  The children had a chance to use the different objects they could find in nature to make their own pictures of wildlife and collected various objects to hang from string to make a nature curtain.  We loved dipping in their ponds and we found lots of different creatures swimming around.  Our visit to the herb garden found us collecting lots of different smells and sticking leaves together to cover a caterpillar and our trip across the wobbly bridge and through the bamboo arches was great fun!