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Description

Build shelters in the trees and see if they hold up to water

Resources

Plastic decorators sheeting
String
Bamboo canes
Whatever you can find around
Bucket of water
An adult to help each lodge

Instructions

Beavers build a shelter from the materials available to hold their whole lodge. Whole lodge then shelters under their shelter while a leader pour a small amount of water over the shelter.

Information to share with beavers during activity:

If you needed to shelter, think about where you would choose to build your shelter, it would need to be somewhere dry, flat, not right next to a body of water, or underneath cliffs where things may fall, or branches that look like they may come down. Is readily visible or very well hidden (depending on whether you want to be found or not)
Have a good place for a fire right in front of the doorway to keep you warm
A note about choosing a flat site for your shelter. This is not just for comfort! If your shelter is on a slope and it starts raining, then the rainwater can come into your shelter.
If you are unable to find a flat spot for building your shelter and rain is likely, then you will need to dig trenches to divert the water away from the shelter.

Tags

• shelter

Badge Links

• Teamwork - Challenge