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Twinkl (No date) Bear Hunt Role Play Headbands. Available at: http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-11899-bear-hunt-role-play-headbands#login (Accessed: 14/11/17).

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Who could live without great role play resources? Fantastic fun and perfect for encouraging your children to really take on their roles, role play headbands are an absolute must for any theme.This resource is available in Standard.

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Who could live without great role play resources? Fantastic fun and perfect for encouraging your children to really take on their roles, role play headbands are an absolute must for any theme.This resource is available in Standard. Please Log In or Join for FREE to suggest a change for this resource.

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Charlotte (2012) We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Messy Play Style. Make, do and friend. 23rd February. Available at: http://www.makedoandfriend.uk/2012/02/were-going-on-bear-hunt-messy-play.html (Accessed: 14/11/17).
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We're going on a Bear Hunt, it's going to be a messy one...

So I mentioned before, how I'm always finding inspiration in our favourite bedtime stories. I love the idea of deepening a child's understanding of a story, using their playtime experiences to explore the concepts in what at first looks like a simple text. Ultimately we know children (and adults) learn better when their senses are engaged, which is why we point out pictures and put on funny voices when we're reading to them.

I decided to turn one of Vinnie's favourite books 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' by Michael Rosen into a sensory play session. The book is full of descriptive language...

...'long wavy grass' - I'm pretty sure my friends think I'm nuts when I ask if I can come round to borrow their paper shredder, then fill up a carrier bag with the shreddings!

...'a deep cold river' - I coloured some water blue, but as the container I used is brown (a recycled vegetable tray) I couldn't get a decent photo at all!

...'thick oozy mud' - I thought about this one for a long time, my first thought was playdough, but I used that in the next tray and I wanted to give Vin a completely new texture to explore. I played around with flour and paste and coffee grinds, but in the end I mixed up a batch of chocolate Angel Delight (similar to chocolate pudding in the US)

'a big dark forest' of twigs and leaves sunk into some brown playdough

'a narrow gloomy cave' - I had wild ideas of making a cave that Vin would actually have to reach into, but I couldn't pull it off as well as I'd envisaged. Instead we had a tray full of rocks and...

...'one shiny wet nose, two big furry ears, two big goggly eyes... it's a bear!'

here's his best 'uh-uh' face!

As I was setting up I kind of expected the contents of the trays probably wouldn't all stay where they were supposed to. What I was not expecting was the dumping of all of the trays into the water...

Interestingly the 'snow' absorbed all of the water and turned blue. Vin then tried looking for the water under the snow, which led to some science-y type conversations. We also got to talk about how the paper disintegrated and the sticks started getting mushy, but nothing happened to the rocks.

So we got to re-tell a bit of the story, before curiosity took over, but I love how this playtime went a completely different route and we got to talk about concepts I'd never have mentioned otherwise!

*ps since I wrote the original Fake Snow post a couple of people have mentioned the stuffing from nappies/diapers might be toxic. I did some research and couldn't find any conclusive argument either way. I spoke with a friend who is a biomedical research scientist, who said that old disposable nappies would have had toxic chemicals in, but that the eco-friendly compostible nappies I use would definitely not be toxic, unless the filling was consumed in large doses (he also mentioned that both oranges or bread can be toxic if consumed in large doses!) If you're still not keen you could crush up some icecubes in a blender or defrost your freezer like we did here.

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We're Going on a Bear Hunt Messy Play Style...

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We're going on a Bear Hunt, it's going to be a messy one... So I mentioned before, how I'm always finding inspiration in our favourite bedtime stories. I love the idea of deepening a child's understanding of a story, using their playtime experiences to explore the concepts in what at first looks like a simple text.

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Signplanet (2016) Feelings. Available at: http://signplanet2.net/SubContent/Feelings.pdf  (Accessed:13/11/17).

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Walker Books (2014) Michael Rosen performs We’re Going on a Bear Hunt [YouTube]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=0gyI6ykDwds (Accessed: 14/11/17).

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Michael Rosen performs We're Going on a Bear Hunt

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This padlet resource aims to help teachers in reception to teach a sequence of lesson around the story ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. Through the range of different resources such as videos and practical activities, we can develop pupils' learning. Pupils within reception should begin to understand how to use their own voices and and body to mimic a character in drama. The range of lessons creates a stage where pupils become a part of the story. The first session is based on understanding the characters and imagining how they would be feeling in these situations. The second is based on the setting of the story and giving the children a feel of the different environments (e.g. mud and water). The aim of the final lesson is that the children put all their experiences together and act out their version of the story.

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We're Going A Bear Hunt - A Teacher's Guide

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We're Going A Bear Hunt - A Teacher's Guide

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A resource for teachers in Reception