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Description

Journey sticks (on a walk)

Resources

Different coloured wool of about 1m in length

Instructions

Some simple steps to making sure that they work and that everyone (including you) has fun:
1) Set-up the game first and then explain how it works.
2) Keep explanations and rules to a minimum.
3) Pay special attention to any safety considerations. Explain and stress safety rules.
4) Keep your goal in mind; what do you want the participants to get out of the game? (Many of these games focus on awareness of nature around us.)
5) Get kids to feel comfortable outside.
6) Spend time after games asking kids if they had fun.
7) What did they learn

Journey Sticks (On a walk)

The activity:
1. Children to find for themselves a 50cm – 1m long stick
2. Tell them to collect objects around the wood as you lead them around. These objects will remind them about places in the woodland.
3. Children then collect feathers, dried flower heads, grass bark, leaves etc, attaching them to their stick as they go by using the wool to wrap around them. At the end of the walk, the children use the objects to tell about their journey. Alternatively, you could encourage them to remember where they found particular objects by getting individuals to lead the rest of the group to the spot.

Tags

• choice challenges
• Environment
• fly
• grow
• grow and fly Choice Challenges
• grow and fly Choice Challenges 08
• Ladybird
• Nature
• Nature Games
• Trefoil News
• Trefoil News 2023
• Trefoil News Summer 2023

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