Forest Adventure The Let's Go Club

This is The Let's Go Club, but mini!

Expect making, exploring, super-sizing, dancing, fact-finding

and laughing.

We've only got five minutes,

so get ready for more fun from The Let's Go Club.

Let's go!

I'm Isabel.

I'm Alex.

-BOTH:

-Today we're having a forest adventure.

Lots of things live in this forest.

It's full of trees, plants, birds and insects.

Peter works in this forest.

He knows all about the animals and plants that live here.

Is it easy to live in a forest?

It's easy for plants and trees to live in the forest

cos they get energy from the sun

and their nutrients and water from the ground.

It's also very easy for insects to live here

cos they eat all the fallen leaves from trees.

And they live under the logs where it's cool and damp.

Do we know what these are?

-Millipede.

-Yes.

-And this one?

-A woodlouse?

A woodlouse, yeah.

How can we live in the forest?

Well, first thing we need to do is stay warm.

One way we can stay warm is by building a fire.

The first thing we need to get our fire going is some bark.

And the bark from this tree peels off really easily.

We need to collect some of these very thin, long twigs.

We're looking for sticks that snap really easily.

If they bend it means they're full of water

and won't burn properly.

We're in a special safe area for building our fire, here.

Our fire's ready to light now.

Fires can be a bit dangerous,

so we always get a grown-up to light it.

So I'm going to get this lit.

Could you guys just sit on these two logs while I do that?

Our fire doesn't just keep us warm, it can help us cook our food.

-So would you like to cook a teacake?

-Yeah!

-Brilliant.

To cook our teacake we need a cooking tool.

We need to start with a long straight stick like this,

and we need another tool to turn this into our cooking tool.

Do you know what it is?

-Potato peeler.

-It is.

And we're going to use it to peel the end of our stick

and turn it into a point.

We hold the peeler close to the metal bit

and we put our thumb over the top of our fingers.

Then we get our stick and point it towards the ground

and take thin little cuts off.

Each time you take one of those cuts,

you need to turn that stick.

That's it. You're getting it.

Is it easy?

It's hard but...

you do get the hang of it once you've, like, done it.

OK, let me see. I think you're about finished.

-Are you finished? Is it good and pointy, do you think?

-Yeah.

We have to sit back on our heels

so that we're far away from the fire.

That's why we have nice long sticks -

so that it's safe for us to put our food over.

So if you stretch your arms out...

Oh, that looks so nice.

This is quite nice.

Mmm, really nice!

The most important thing to learn how to do outdoors

is to make a shelter.

A shelter will not only keep you warm but dry as well.

-Are you ready to come and give this a go?

-Yes!

To build shelters, we'll need lots of sticks like these,

and there are lots of them around here.

But we'll also need... quite a few of these leaves here.

What do you think we'll need these for?

Is it for the roof?

They make our den waterproof

and keep all the water on the outside

so we stay nice and dry on the inside.

Yeah, let's start putting them on like this.

And the trick is to get them nice and slanted

so that any rain will go off them.

Is that about the right size to go there? Yeah.

That's about perfect.

That just hooks on to the top here.

Sometimes it needs two layers.

You want to plug up as many of these holes as you can.

-This one looks kind of good.

-And there we go,

-there is our flag.

-Yeah!

Well done.

You've done a great job of your shelter.

What do you think about it?

I think that it would be actually good

to sleep in for a few nights.

Thanks for our forest adventure.

You are very welcome.

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