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Sleeping in the straw for one night

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When you are on unorganised multi-day hikes or bike rides, you need to look for a suitable place to sleep every night.

Should it even start to rain, then the farmer’s hay barn is a good idea. Hay is comfortable and warm. Besides that, the team spirit, sleeping together in the hay is great. Most kids can’t resist a hay fight, which gives that much more fun. The only disadvantage, hay on the skin can be very itchy.

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Safety instruction

However, to spend the night in a barn, sleeping in hay or straw carries some risks. This must be observed and must be discussed and explain with the participants.

Smoking or petroleum lanterns are obviously a no-no in a barn.
Phone or other valuables should also be deposited in a safe place because it is too easily to lose those things in the hay. Especially when the kids engage in a hay battle.
In every barn, there are ladders and other farm equipment and devices. They all are potential hazards to children. Have a good look around and remove what you can, and where you can’t remove the machinery, is a declared no-go zone.
Make sure, that the kids do not leave and plastic packaging in the hay, because that could get into the stomach of animals and cause severe damage even death.