House building for the Three Little Pigs!

As part of our materials topic, Squirrels and Badgers joined together for a fun and messy afternoon building houses for the three little pigs! Authentic straw and sticks were used along with Lego for bricks. The children used ingenious methods to make their houses as strong as possible. Ideas ranged from building a house of straw in the corner of the room for extra protection, weaving the straw to make it stronger, carefully stacking sticks of appropriate lengths and intertwining them  to following real life brick patterns to give the brick houses even more stability. 

We were even visited by the Big Bad Wolf who huffed and puffed (with the help of a hairdryer!) but did NOT blow any of the houses down!!! Well done Squirrels you outsmarted the wolf with your carefully planned and built houses!