Please follow the ‘Assembly Intructions’ when using Kitcamp. DATE: 2017-09 #I AM A DWELLER #IAMACAVEDWELLER Use the cave as a story setting, OVERVIEW WORKS WITH: GROUP SIZE: create your own characters... Making a dark and mysterious cave serves as the play space for EYFS INDIVIDUAL the classic story, ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’. It can turn into a reading den or a canvas for . Opportunities to KS1 SMALL develop knowledge and understanding of the world (light and KS2 LARGE dark, and habitats, being outdoors), as as exploring noises and sounds of their own. The cave is a place to recreate SEN (endorsed) and act out the ‘bear hunt’ story and narratives of their own; it could be a hiding place, a treasure trove (think Ali Baba) or an EYFS and National Curriculum animal’s home. What will happen when #iamacavedweller? targets applicable.

INSPIRATION EXPLORATION ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Stories What is a cave like? Kitcamp Accessories: cardboard inserts ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’, Michael Rosen & Helen Oxenbury, Talk about the dark, the cold, the smells, what might you touch? Explore the (brown side). ‘Gruff the Grump’, Steve Smallman, cave environment by discussing what is cold and touching cold objects (pebbles, Ideas for materials to source: ‘Cave Baby’, Julia Donaldson & Emily Gravett, ice cubes). Make dripping and splashing sounds in the water basin. • Basin (water tray). ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’, Julia Donaldson & Axel Sheffler. What can you see/hear/touch/smell inside the cave? • Brown packing paper, scrunched-up sugar or For older children: ‘Ug’, Raymond Briggs, Together, or child-led, create a cave with the Kitcamp panels, think about the tissue paper, cuddly toy bear. ‘Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves’, various retellings. height of the roof and entrances and . Fix in cardboard panel inserts with • Pebbles, ice cubes. Photography rock art and add scrunched-up brown material, packing paper or tissue paper. • Hard hat, torches, headtorch, fairy lights. Grotte de Clamouse, France – http://www.clamouse.com/en/ Accessorise e.g. pebbles or cushions. • Long grass, sticks, water/blue scarf, mud!, white tissue paper or cotton wool for snow. discover-clamouse/photo-galleries/ Who, or what, lives in the cave? Red Hands Cave, Australia – https://www.nationalparks.nsw. • Small world character family and animals. Look at photos of caves or share a story with a cave as the setting. Add cuddly gov.au/things-to-do/aboriginal-sites/red-hands-cave • Marker pens/felt tips, chalks, mud/natural or small world toys from the books inside the cave. Imagine being a cave San rock art, South Africa – http://www.bradshawfoundation. coloured paints and pencils, water spray. dweller: I wonder how the boy in the story feels as he enters the cave? How com/south_africa/south_africa_gallery.php • Photos of cave dwellers (e.g. bat, fox, bear, do you feel inside the cave? What might you discover? How would you move lizard, fish, mammoth, cave explorer) Visual & audio inside the cave? What would you say/do if...? • Means to record noise (sound button, ipad). Planet Earth (BBC), Episode 4: Caves, Children love special spaces of their own; the cave can become a sanctuary, ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’ film, somewhere to read or to be with friends, ‘hidden’ from a larger space. The cave For additional resources, guides and Echo sound files and make them with your voices (repeat and could become the hiding place of a dragon or Ali Baba’s loot. activity tips, please visit our blog at volume tails off). iamkitcamp.com/blog

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Be imaginative and customise the kitcamp Retell and act out the ‘Bear Hunt’ story Set out a bear hunt obstacle course with Explore the senses: Inside the cave place cave with tissue and packing paper. Scrunch, using pictures from the book and small Kitcamp panels leading to the Kitcamp cold or frozen objects (pebbles, ice cubes). twist and tear paper to exercise finger, arm world props, journeying towards the bear cave. Use sticks or chalk marks to hop In the basin (water tray) recreate the sounds and shoulder muscles. Add props for a bear Kitcamp cave. across, snowballs (scrunched newspaper) of a cave (dripping water, splashing and cave, e.g. pebbles and a big cuddly bear! Act out the cave scene as you tiptoe to dodge, slow-motion through the wind, movement of waves). Drop water onto Be a Cave Baby! Get mark-making and cave into the cave and then run away. Provide tiptoeing toward the cave, then racing pebbles using syringes and brushes. away to safety (a base).

ACTIVITY painting using dots, lines and circles. Make dressing up clothes/headwear for each of Explore mark-making in mud with stones bear paw prints on cardboard on the cave the characters, including the bear. Move like a bear, inside the cave, on all and sticks, create cave paintings on the floor and entrance. Count as you print, one Make a journey stick of the ‘Bear Hunt’ fours. Slowly, fast, rush out the cave inside and outside of the Kitcamp cave with big round pad and five little pads, add claw story. Find materials to represent each showing your front paws. In a clear space, your fingers and hands. Make a stencil with marks if you dare! scene, e.g. cotton wool for snow and tie practise some bear rolls. your hand, rest it on the Kitcamp cardboard Look closely at pictures of bears, copy the onto a stick. Use the stick to tell the story How can you move in, out, and around the panels then spray water or paint over it (see lines and shapes, then decorate the cave in your own words inside the cave. Kitcamp bear cave? Practise moving as a Red Hands Cave, Australia) and attach to the Kitcamp cave. with your own drawings of bears. The ‘Bear Hunt’ story uses onomatoepia snake, a bear, a hunter or a cave explorer. Create echoes. Inside the cave, echo what (stumble trip, swishy swashy). Create sound Think about changing height (commando Make shadow puppets of animals with your the leader says, or repeat a noise and let it words of your own to use inside the cave crawling, all fours, or hind legs, paws hands in front of a torch, what happens if gradually get quieter. (drip drop). up high), speed (chasing or pacing) and you move the light source? number of paws on the ground. Extension: Create a mystery! Add some new footprints Who lives inside? Use the cardboard Extension: panels to stick on the cave wall pictures of The cave is dark and mysterious! Turn it or a dusting of ‘snow’ inside the cave, living things found in caves (bats, insects) into a perfect spot for reading by making perhaps find a dinosaur sleeping there. Create a ‘Hunt and Chase’ game, Bear including from earlier times (settlers, it cosier and lighter. How can you make it Imagine what has happened. versus , with the cave as the base. mammoths, dinosaurs). Invite play with toy lighter (e.g. changing panels, translucent Use Kitcamp to create spaces to hide. What Extension: rules does the game need? Could you score cave animals. materials), what lights could you add, and Use the cave as a story setting, create your and earn points? Extension: where?(torches, fairy lights) own characters of cave dwellers, hunters, Write signs on cardboard inserts e.g. “The animals or a dragon slayer. Act out your Be a cave explorer! Re-configure the Find out about troglobites (permanent ’s Cave”, “Beware of the Bear!”,”Enter if cave story with friends. Perhaps you’re a Kitcamp panels to create narrow cave creatures) and how they have adapted to you dare!” Use different writing fonts. cave explorer (with your headtorch and passages. Get on your headtorch, practise living in the cave habitat. hard hat) and discover a new creature... moving on your tummy and wriggling Investigate natural materials to create cave through the cave. Make a record of what paintings. How many different shades of Decorate the cave with speech bubbles with you might see, hear and find. noises and phrases coming from the inside. colour can you make from natural materials?

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