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Fortunately, there are lots of tried and true activities you can do on the trail that’ll keep kids from getting bored. Among them is Myth-making.
Select an interesting object on the landscape – a strangely shaped cliff, a gigantic boulder, a scenic valley – and have children make up a story about how it was created. For example, maybe a concave bend in a mountain side was created when a giant slipped backward and crashed into it, pressing the rock inward. With older children, see if the various myths about each object can be strung together into a single story. Besides being a great way to work children’s imagination, the activity also fires their curiosity about how the indentation really did get there, so be prepared to possibly answer a few geological questions!
Materials: None
Ages: 5 and up
Learn about more than a hundred other hiking diversions for kids in Hikes with Tykes: Games and Activities.