Mining
A good excuse for some cooperative, rhythmic
digging together, as well as a chance to explore a variety of rocks, stones,
sand and minerals indigenous to different areas of the world - not to mention
fossils!
Create a mine
entrance - this could be achieved with wood pallets or a tunnel of voiles and
sparkly fairy lights. Use a tunnel projection which takes you
down to the bowels of the earth on a roller coaster ride. Depending on
the type of mine, use coloured cloths decorated with fairy lights for the walls and cover bean
bags with cloths to make boulders to sit on. Gold or
silver space blankets can create a shimmer behind brown voiles on the walls.
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·Hide
gold or silver nuggets of different sizes and shapes. These can be ordinary stones sprayed
gold/silver or wrapped in silver/gold foil.
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Or hide sparkling coloured gemstones for participants to find. These are particularly easy to resource around Xmas and look amazing.
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Add a
variety of tools and containers -
buckets, woks, colanders, sieves, spades, ropes, chains and pulleys.
Incorporate
boomwhackers as digging tools (covered in brown gaffer tape to look the same) for an upbeat rhythmic section.
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Gold space blankets act like liquid gold and provide a very popular multisensory resource
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When all the hard work is over, return to the
surface, present your 'finds' and collect your wages. Don't forget to haggle!
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Celebrate with singing, dancing, food (Golden Nuggets) and drink. Broom handles and boots with bottle tops attached make great percussive accessories
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