The nursery children love to recreate the story “ We’re Going On A Bear Hunt” whenever we are out on walks in the community, so we decided to set up an activity in the  nursery garden to explore and extend our involvement further.

We used a variety of natural resources to try to create the  grass, the river, mud, a forest, snow and a cave.The wooden house was turned into a cave with camouflage netting and black materials inside to create the  deep, dark cave.

The boys are able to  recall the story word for word without needing to look at the book.

The boys had great fun exploring the sensory areas with their shoes on and were then very brave to explore the story in their bare feet. This activity not only focused on language and literacy, the  activity promoted imaginative play, turn taking, team work, confidence building, gross motor skills, problem solving skills, risk awareness and sensory engagement.

Luckily the Bears were very friendly and joined us  on our adventures for the rest of the day.