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Strava art (or Big Art) is where you ‘draw’ with the GPS track that your phone makes as it moves – an example of a big snowman drawn across London is show below. We will explain how it works but in advance scouts/ Explorers, if they have a phone, need to download the Strava app and have a go at using it (they might need to register but its free). Also make sure all phones have plenty of charge.

Resources

Scouts/ explorers own mobile phones with Strava app downloaded with charged battery. May need to register beforehand but this is free.

Base maps
Example line drawings, from Internet and personal ones
Clipboards
Compasses
Pens
Envelopes
Prize

Instructions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_SdZsVl364



Approach on evening

- Scouts arrive
- Check who has Strava and that working
- Explain concept of big art / drawing with your track / Strava art
walk them round a course, show how to start and stop Strava recording and how you can ‘draw’ on a map. I might just do a square - 100 paces NE, 100 paces SE, 100 paces SW, 100 paces NW
- What you can draw
- Show them one I did earlier and from google
- Show them example pictures
- avoid isolated parts, avoid to many three point junctions
- suggestions - word, name, shape, picture (dog, sea horse, bike, christmas tree, face, flower)
- give them an expanded map of Hook Meadow on A4 paper so they can draw (with a pencil) the picture they plan and work out how they draw it
- have a compass so they should be able to figure out what direction they need to go

They have a go
-they can draw anything they like - start simple, plan in advance
-draw big, don’t move too fast
-two rounds: first they can see the phone and see where their track is; second, is ‘blind’ - put the phone in an envelope which they are not allowed to open until the end
-more marks for: creativity, accuracy, size (use whole meadow and field next door)
-when finished I will take picture

DON’T: go on road, walk in crops, go on cricket square or private land, through hedges

NO inappropriate pictures

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