Butts Grown Wild

(I work with three year olds. Today, I am planting cress with them. I explain to each child that if they leave their cress seeds somewhere sunny they will grow and the children will be able to put them on their sandwiches. This happens when a child is collected later in the day. ‘Butty’ is a colloquial term for a sandwich in some parts of the UK.)

Child: *to his mum* “Mum, look! If I put this in the sunshine it’ll grow into butties!”

Me: “Well, not quite…”