Use the barn as a place to sleep

What you need:

• rug
• flashlight
• Sleeping bag
• Thermos

Preparations for the barn adventure

• Depending on the season, be prepared for your overnight stay in the barn. In winter, you should definitely have a sleeping bag designed for low temperatures with you. In the summer, a few woolen blankets will be enough to keep you warm.
• Regardless of the season, you should take a thermos filled with tea or cocoa with you. If it does get a little colder than expected, you can warm yourself from the inside out with a hot drink. In addition, you should bring enough to drink with you in summer.
• Since it is far too dangerous to prepare meals over an open flame in a barn, take enough provisions such as biscuits, chips and fruit with you for your overnight stay.
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• Flashlights are great for keeping light at night. Because you are going to sleep on hay, a candle would be something. Ä. way too dangerous.

Tips to spend the night comfortably

• You can make use of the principle that heat rises. Often times, barns have a raised platform on which the hay is stored. So it is best to set up your camp up there, as it is a few degrees warmer here than on the ground.


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• Put a thick layer of hay under you so that you can lie comfortably. The hay insulates you from below because it forms small air chambers that do not pass your heat on so quickly.
• Now you should put a few blankets over the hay to protect yourself from any hay mites or other insects.
• To build a natural pillow for yourself, simply pile up some hay and place it at the head of your blanket for comfortable sleep.

Of course, an overnight stay in the hay should also have fun. So take small card games or instruments with you to have fun with each other. With these tips you can enjoy an exciting overnight stay outside your four walls.