Playing In The Garden

The teddy bears' friends are staying with them for a few days. The weather has been continually sunny so they have spent a lot of their time out of doors. It has been too hot to travel anywhere so they have played games in the garden instead.

They played hide and seek amongst the trees and flowers - of course being very careful not to damage any of them.

If you look at the pictures here, you will be able to see some of the places where they have been hiding. You almost can't see Alfred hiding behind the trees, can you? He hid very well. Oscar found the biggest plant pot he could to hide behind!

After they had played for a while, they sat down in a circle on the grass amongst the wildflowers. There were some pretty plants, which had both white flowers and purple flowers - the teddy bears looked them up in their flower book and found out that they are called clover.

Apparently, nearly all clover plants have 3 leaves, but very, very occasionally you can find one with 4 leaves which is said to be extremely lucky. So the teddy bears spent ages looking for one, and were astonished when Gerry found the one in the photo here - can you spot it? Lucky Gerry!!

"I know a surprising fact about clover," said Scary "which not many people know."

"Oooh, what's that?" asked Boo, always happy to learn.

"Well, most people just walk across fields of clover without actually getting right down to their level," replied Scary "but if you do, you will find that they have a really sweet fragrance."

Try smelling the flowers when you next see them, either in your garden or out in the countryside. The scent is lovely.

Taller bears (and people!) who might have a problem getting down to that level (or, more likely, getting up again!) might have to actually pick a flower to smell it, but only pick one or two, leave the rest for others to enjoy!

But it had taken such a long time and a lot of searching for Gerry to find his four-leaf clover, and it was very warm outside. He very soon fell asleep, snoring quietly whilst the other bears continued trying to find more four leaf clovers - but no such luck!

If you have the chance to sit down amongst lots of clover, spend some time trying to find that elusive four-leaf one! Good luck!