Do you ever go cycling, or walking, with young kids? What if I told you that you could easily add a bit of magic to those outings? How? By doing Fairy Trails!
Fairy Trails are being embedded into more and more of the traffic-free cycle routes listed on WillCycle. To play, simply visit the route guide for that route, while out and about, on your phone. Below the interactive map it will show whether or not there’s a Fairy Trail along the route. If there is, it will also tell you where it starts, and where it ends.
Little legs and big imaginations
Fairy Trails will almost never cover the full length of a route. After all, they’re aimed at kids aged 3 to 5 years old, who may not want to cycle, or walk, particularly far. As you approach the start, the map will ask you if you wanted to participate in the Fairy Trail. Selecting yes means the magic is about to hapen.
Keep the volume turned up on your phone, as the fairies will start talking once you get to the start, and at the other stops along the route. Each fairy trail includes a picnic stop, so little legs can get a rest, and the child(ren) can eat a nutritious snack. After all, the fairies would be telling them to rest, and eat!
Each stop (there are seven to each Fairy Trail) will include some activity the kids need to do. These range from standing on tippy toes and stretching as high as they, to milling their arms around like windmills, to trying to balance on one foot.
Your job
Your job on a Fairy Trail is simple: help keep the magic alive for the kids. Perhaps explain to them that fairies can only speak to humans through phones these days? I would also suggest that you cycle the route beforehand, so you roughly know where the stops are, and what the “fairy” will say.
Possibilities
I’m working a number of fairy storylines for the Fairy Trails. If you have a very special little person in your life, I can even do some personalisation of the storylines. Please note that I’m unable to dedicate any storyline to any named child, as doing so might lessen the experience for other kids, with different names.
However, I can do something like “Tinker Bell has a human child she is very fond of, and he/she is called
Also, if there’s no Fairy Trail on a route near you, please tell me, and I’ll do my best to get that fixed in a hurry.
Hope you and the little ones have a magical adventure!