Den building is lots of fun however working as part of a team to build a sturdy den is quite hard. 😂😂

We used a range of materials and natural materials found in our playground to build a den. We were split into 3 teams and the team with the sturdiest den won. It’s good to compete against each other sometimes.

In our teams, we had to use the interpersonal skills we have been learning about and work together to do the task. It’s important to listen to others in your team as well as tell your teammates what you think. There were lots of laughs when building our dens and lots of starting over again when things didn’t work out.

We learned about securing objects to the ground and to trees, we learned about knots to tie to keep part secure and we realised that not everything we thought would work did work. Starting over again until we were successful was all part of the learning and, although it was frustrating at the time, it was worth it in the end when all 3 of the groups managed to build fantastic dens.

Here are some photographs of the process of our den building activity.  Can you remember what any of the equipment was called? Watch the video at the end and see us all enjoying ‘The Party Den’!