Going on a bear hunt activities

Going on a Bear Hunt” is a great traditional action activity. Whether you are exploring a bears theme or just following up after reading the book, check out these bear hunt activities for your classroom. Provide children with a plastic bag to collect their items. Tell the children that they will begin their bear hunt when you turn on music.

Or pack things like scarves and hats for the snowstorm, swimming gear for the river, flashlights for the cave.

Pull out the items as you need them in the story. Play a bear hunt memory game. Take the spirit of this book outdoors and make your own bear hunt.

Use the lyrical pattern of the story to describe what you see and hear in your surroundings. Walk to your destination, singing along the way. Then quickly run back, just like in the story.

Act out each line as you go.

For example, when you say We’re going on a bear hunt , you can pretend to look through binoculars. When you say Gotta go through it, pretend that you are sloshing through the thick mud of the swamp. Encourage children to mimic your actions. Chorus: We’re going on a bear hunt ! Can you design your own game based on this, or another, book and write some instructions showing others how to play it?

Write another story where a family visit different places and have to rush back through them after they discover something exciting! Some of the sentences in the story are very short. There are songs that provide a variation on the story (see link for free playlist including Bear Hunt songs here) that are fun to act out.

Taking this story outside allows for littles to take the journey to the dramatic as they act out parts of the tale, or come up. This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy.

What craft are we going to do tomorrow? Chuck and I love reading the book, so I came up with really easy crafts to go along with the bear hunt theme. This is a book that is always a hit with kids and inspires many great activities.

This is such a fun book to act out loud and play out each line in the story. This book makes a great activity for little ones.

It helps introduce prepositions to young children. Includes differentiated planning in Literacy and Numeracy for HA, MA and LA groups. All activities are cross curricular based on EYFS curriculum.

Or, watch the author perform it. A story sequencing teaching resource to go with the book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. Sequence the story as a whole class or give students a map and pictures to cut out and paste in the correct square. Includes: story words, beginning sounds, counting, sorting activities and more.

Illustrated by Patricia Mullins. Lead your students through the story using the movement prompts along the way. Summarize the story by asking the students to describe and name the landforms.

Kids love to pretend they are squelching through the mu splashing through the deep, cold river, and stumbling through the big, dark forest. Each card is 15cm by 15cm and can be used for all sorts of card-based activities.