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Draw a Map of the Park

Outdoor games
  • 8–12 years
  • 35 min
  • outdoors

Start at the entrance, draw the path as one line and add every fork before you choose which way to go. By the end there is a map someone else can actually walk.

What you need

  • A sheet of paper
  • A pencil
  • A hardback book to lean on
  • A bench

How to play

  1. Sit at the park entrance and draw the path you can see as a single line.
  2. Walk to the first fork and add it to the map before you choose a way.
  3. Invent your own symbols for landmarks: a star for the big oak, a square for the bench.
  4. Count your steps between two landmarks and write the number along the line.
  5. Add a legend in the corner explaining every symbol you used.
  6. Hand the map to someone else and let them lead you along it.
  7. Mark the one place where they got lost and fix the map there.

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