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Where's Nurse
Copyright © Under5's Limited 2004
Written and illustrated by Ruth Grimes

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Activity To find out the role about Nurses and Doctors have in making us feel better.

You will need

  • Photocopies of the bear sheet
  • Children will need
  • Brown/other colour paper cut into narrow strips to 
  • resemble plasters – or real ones if in abundance!
  • Copy of Bear each
  • Pva/stick glue
  • Selection of collage materials that are textured eg – cotton wool, sandpaper, plastic scouring pads ect.
  • scissors
1. Photocopy the bear sheet – one per child.
2. Talk about the types of collage materials you have for them to use and ask the children to touch them. Discuss hard/scratchy/soft/fluffy textures. Have any of the children ever hurt themselves with textures like these? Where and when? 
3. Collage the bear using cut pieces of the materials and glue. If possible for the older members, try extending the activity by asking them to only collage the part of the bear that they have hurt themselves on before.
4. If possible have some nurse hats ready for them to pretend to make bear feel better (strips of white paper, draw red cross on front, measure Childs head and tape strip together) Cut out the plaster template and cut many from brown paper (or colour of plasters frequently used in your setting, or alternatively use real ones?)
Who helps the children when they have hurt themselves and how does that person/toy make things feel better?
Have they or anyone they know ever seen a Nurse or Doctor ? Why did they and where did they have to go to see them.
5. Fill in the plaster information label.
Bear Template

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