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Wonderful article! I learned a lot. I'm hoping to adapt it to adults.

Looking forward to meeting you someday.

Cheers!

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I'd be happy to take you and some friends on a woods wander up here in the forest!

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Hey Margaret, let me know how it works with adults. I think all it really needs is slowing it down a bit and some adults who still like to play! I'd love to play.

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We play this! but we call it 'you're only safe if....' and then we give a countdown and try to tag people who aren't safe.

Then we adapt it in/out depending on the group's knowledge so it came to be anything like:

- a bumpy tree

- a tree that makes something edible

- a conifer

- a tree with rope on it.

- a holly tree

- a coppiced tree

And we change what you have to do with the tree:

-touching

- put your forehead on a...

- put your butt on a...

- dance around a....

- whisper to a....

- hug a...

- make a funny face towards a...

- holding a X leaf..

- pointing at an animal home..

The list goes on!

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