Difficulty Difficult
Duration 30-40 minutes
Type of activity Long term activities
Season Spring,Summer,Fall
Occasion Any
Suitability Physically fit
Locations Outdoor
Tools
laths
strong and straight branches
pieces of boards or planks
pebbles
round timber
bark
cones
sand. soil and other natural materials which can be used and is available
Goal
The objective is to have collective experience and share feelings of something unique. In nearby natural area such as park, you can easily prepare path using natural materials. Sand can follow cones, pebbles even gras. During the game can participants describe their feelings, try to compare it with similar experience for example sand by sea, lawn in the garden etc.
Intergenerational benefits
Understanding and relationship building
Understanding and relationship building
The activity promotes the understanding and appreciation of the attitudes, opinions, and experiences which different generations bring to the relationships, understanding and avoiding generational stereotypes and fostering tolerance of different lifestyles and an appreciation for cultural heritages, traditions and histories.
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
Intergenerational learning and skill sharing
The activity promotes learning and skill sharing among younger and older generations. It involves the sharing of positive resources that the young and old have to offer each other, especially the experience with novelties of modern times and valuable life lessons as well as cultural and familiar traditions.
Health and wellbeing
Health and wellbeing
The activity promotes physical and mental well-being. It has a positive impact on the quality of life (feeling of self-worth and a reduction in loneliness and isolation, promotion of physical and cognitive activity).
Personal impact
Personal impact
Developing soft skills (like empathy, confidence, communication abilities, learning skills) and developing their own strengths and talents.
Cognitive skills
Cognitive skills
Supporting mental / brain-based skills we need to do anything from the simplest to the most complex tasks:perception, attention, memory, motor skills, language, visual and spatial processing, executive functions.
Community involvement
Community involvement
The activity increases confidence and involvement within the community. It offers a starting point that could have a positive impact within the community.
Step by Step
- To build your own path use laths to create low fencing which can contain different types of material. It is not a condition to use laths, adapt your path to the conditions in your neighborhood. For comfortable walk, make the path 0,7 - 1 m wide and each segment 1,5 - 4 m long.
- The participants take off their shoes and form pairs (child and senior). Path shall be wide enough for comfortable walk.
- In case that your own barefoot path is too demanding, try to find already existing path close by or just take a barefoot walk in park or woods, experiencing different surfaces.
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