I was asked to create a team working activity based around the term topic of Aesops Fables. The class was a mix of Year 4 and 5 and the teacher wished to give the children an opportunity to mix outside of the classroom at the start of the school year.

The children were split into groups of four and given a lump of modelling clay, a long piece of rope and any natural materials they could find in the wood (some nerf gun bullets left over from a party proved very good chimneys for ‘town mouse and the country mouse’). The rope became a ‘story rope’ and the children had to depict a Fable along the length of the rope. The activity worked out far better than I could have imagined. The children were really engaged with the topic and were extremely creative with most teams working well together.  A great day. 

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