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Secret Tunnels - Activity Instructions

Tunnels lead to wondrous places, maybe caves, mountains, or beaches. To clearer skies and rainbows. Humans make them to shorten the path around the mountain, for trains, for cars and bicycles too. Animals also make them, for shelter or to store their food, to make themselves at home deep inside.

There is safety in a tunnel... comfort. You are hidden from the world and the world in turn is hidden from you. It is just big enough for you, for your teddy and maybe a little snack.

Note: Before completing this activity, read Where Happiness Hides with your parent/caregiver.

Safety advice: Enclosed spaces need air coming into them; try to ensure that there is an open section to the space.

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The possibilities are endless. Secret tunnels are everywhere. In your wildest imagination lies the Narnia within your room. Is a table JUST a table, or could it also be the side of a tunnel with a little help from a blanket? Is a blanket just a blanket, a pillow just a pillow? Use the sheets on your bed to put a cape on, and let’s be ready to make a secret place just for you. Gather blankets, small tables, chairs, boxes, pillows and books. Assemble them together, turn the table on its side, drape the blanket over the legs of the table, sit some chairs next to this and put another blanket over the top, stack some books up and hold the corners of the blanket down, create a tunnel with a cave at the end of it, with secret openings and private spaces.

Consider for a moment that the world outside is far away, that you are safe down here below, or above, or beyond. Where does your tunnel lead to? To what mystery does it take you? What will you find there?

Breathe in, breathe out. Feel the space around you, the walls, solid, soft, containing. Let your mind wander, consider the journey you need to take. If everything around you is a choice, where is it leading you? What do you want to remember from this moment in time, in space.

When you emerge there is a fresh new world out there, where you can start again, begin again. Remember, your tunnel will always be there, a safe place for you to return to if you need it.

Taking It Further

Take a torch into your tunnel! See the shadows you can make on the walls and investigate.

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