MAKING FOOTPRINTS*

One step leads to another

The Project

Step 1 Take off one of your shoes and socks.

Step 2 Place your foot on a piece of paper and draw round it

Step 3 Make lots of photocopies of your footprint

Step 4 When you visit a place which tells a story draw a little picture, with some words, on one of your footprints that say what you like or don't like about it

Step 5 Keep all your footprints in a 'shoe box' and every so often take them out and arrange them on the floor so that they make a trail:-

• THROUGH TIME ie they take you back in history;

• THROUGH SPACE ie they make a map of places that you like or don't like;

• THROUGH TOPIC ie they indicate your 'march of understanding' of a topic such as 'pollution', 'wildlife', 'religion', 'technology'.

Step 6 Exchange copies of your footprints with your friends in the 'footprints network', which either fill in gaps in your journeys, or give you ideas of places which you would like to visit to make your own footprint.

Don’t forget your feet grow!

This project is being developed by SCAN (the Schools in Communities Agenda 21 Network) to encourage children to make environmental appraisals. For more information, or to tell us what you are doing, contact Danielle Cowall at SCAN: National Museum of Wales; Cardiff; CF1 3NP, or www.scan-online.org

Inspired by Basil Hume's big little book 'Footprints of the Northern Saints'

ISBN 0232521522