A cooperative hiking & tracking game to learn about wild nature!

The idea: Armed with just cameras, binoculars and some other equipment, we leave our camp and hike into the park to learn about wild nature. We may also be surprised by what we learn about ourselves...

Objective: Bring back as many photographs as we can of the animals we track and go to the Guest Lodge for refreshment. Before the game ends, we will learn about the wisdom of the woods, its dangers, its plants - both good and nasty, its creatures - large and small, and ways of tracking, using: sound, scent, sight to best advantage. This will be a shared, group
experience!

Age: 10+
Players: 2 - 6
Language: English

Recycled box: c:a 33x16x3 cm

Play as friends, not as enemies! This is the motto of Family Pastimes co-operative games.

Co-operative games focus on group spirit and foster solidarity. There is neither “win at all costs” spirit nor making “game enemies”. Co-operative games are a friendly form of fun having an educational role by stimulating solidarity as an important dimension of life in society.
By playing and enjoying, children learn how to share, be kind to living things, and help others out, learn how hugging can replace pushing, how ability and strength can be used to help rather to push out of the way. At the same time, children also learn how to better get along with nature – with time, winter, gravity, mountain, harvest, earthquakes, water… They share enjoyable and challenging time with friends or family and develop their imagination by understanding relations between people.

Family Pastimes games have been created by Jim Deacove. He started by developing co-operative games for his family. This success has encouraged him to create more games and make them public. Together with his wife, in 1972, he founded the Family Pastimes Company. It is a small family business, mainly employing local workers in the region. The games are produced locally, in small quantities.

The two main aspects of the Family Pastimes are:
- Social aspect: family business – local production;
- Environmental aspect: use of environmentally friendly materials to produce the games, use of recycled cardboard and paper, water based glue… and reuse of packaging material.

Made in Canada