A revolutionary way to play!
Play Trails get the entire family engaged in the outdoors
Bees Play Pocket
Spiders Play Pocket
Pond Life Play Pocket
Ants Play Pocket
Butterflies Play Pocket
Reconnecting
families & trails
Today, although trails exist in city, suburb,
and open country, it appears that only
a small minority of children and families
are actually using them. While trails are a
popular spot for health conscious adults,
families with young children often do
not find them engaging. In order to find
a solution to this problem, GameTime
collaborated with a network of experts from
the American Trails group. The answer?
Play Trails! Play Trails is a revolutionary
phenomena that links pockets of play
elements in a linear pattern along or within
a trail system. Each Play Pocket is themed
with either flora inspired elements like
leaves, trees, and mushrooms or fauna
inspired elements like dragonflies, turtles,
spiders, bees and ants. Play Trails activities
are grouped in Play Pockets along the
trail and each Play Pocket features a sign
that teaches fun facts about the subject’s
contributions to nature and fun activities
for the family. (Did you know that an ant
can carry 20 times its own body weight
or that a hummingbird is the only bird
capable of flying backwards and sideways?)
This breakthrough in play environments
creates parent/child interaction in the play
pockets and along the trail between one
pocket and the next. “With new ways to
attract children to trails, we can grow new
generations of children who value public
spaces. This is an effective way to create
fun while teaching environmental values.
Where play and fun objects are involved,
each trip to the trail can be more fun
and self-renewing,” explains Pam Gluck,
Executive Director of American Trails.
GameTime is revolutionizing family fun
by creating family events that encourage
physical activity, further develop the parentchild bond, and inspire environmental
stewardship in the children of tomorrow.