Bear Hunt Storybook Activities & Resources

A collection of Bear Hunt activities

Here you’ll find a lovely selection of activities and resources designed to help you teach this classic children’s book. We’ve got resources to save you time such as overview planning packs, complete resource packs, and a variety of displays so that you can spruce up your classroom with little effort. Our resources to help your pupils learn about this book include word mats, map activities, colouring sheets, role play resources, themed page borders, and many more.

Resources like these…

Along with our wonderful activities to support your teaching of this book, we have a whole host of other collections to help you teach other children’s classics.

• Use our lovely Collection of activities to help you teach Bill Martin Jr.'s children's book. You’ll find sequencing cards, key word cards, number cards, themed word mats, and much more.
• We also have a brilliant set of Resources themed with David McKee’s famous book series. We’ve got story cut outs, playdough mats, colouring sheets, and many more. 
• If you’re teaching Percy’s Park books by Nick Butterworth, we’ve got you covered with a broad selection of Resources for you to choose from. You’ll find writing activities, colouring pages, and stick puppets, among others.
• To help your pupils develop their reading skills, check out our Collection of Reading Comprehension Activities. You’ll find a selection of themed resources along with those all important comprehension questions.
• To help further your pupils’ reading comprehension skills, check out our handy Wonder Activity Sheets and Lesson Plans to help your teaching of R.J Palacio’s novel.

What is a bear hunt?

It's a classic children’s book, written in 1989 by Michael Rosen, and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. It’s a wonderful book about adventure and overcoming obstacles- a timeless classic for young children. The plot goes a little like this…

Four children, their baby sister and their dog go for a walk. They encounter long grass, thick mud, heavy snow, a cold river and a forest, before they arrive at a huge cave with a bear inside. Horrified, the family run home through all of the obstacles that they encountered on their way, but this time, with the bear following. Luckily, the children get home in time to lock the bear out, and the bear leaves them alone. The children get under their duvet and talk about their next bear hunt. Use our range of Bear Hunt activities to help your children develop their reading skills. Fun fact: in 2014, it won a Guinness World Record for the ‘Largest Reading Lesson’, as 1,500 children attended, with 30,000 listeners online. 

Check out our handy video below for tips on reading comprehension.