You Can Do It Too! DIY Bear Cave

Our guest post today is by Mary Jo Erickson, Children's Librarian at the Johnson Public Library in Darlington.

Look what a large box, a supply of paper lunch bags, book packing paper, fabric leaves, pine cones, twigs, fake greenery , tape and a hot glue gun can make!

   

  

An awesome Bear Cave!    

I kicked off this unit at our November Family Twilight night.  The children came in pj's and they were ready for activities, stories, songs, and a delicious make and  take treat! 

After you have completed your cave let your imagination go wild!  Add stuffed animals from the library; bear dress-up costumes for the kiddos to wear; a variety of books on hibernation; (Hibernation, Over and Under, Bear Hug, We're Going on a Bear Hunt, and  Animals in the Winter).

Encourage the kiddos  to bring in a"stuffed animal" to spend the winter hibernating in the Library Bear Cave.  I made name tags for each stuffed animal that will be spending the winter at the library.  The kiddos wrote the pets name on the name tag and the owner's name.