Little Steps Care · Autumn workshop

Footprints on the dune

Choose a sandy slope where play is allowed. Climb up in small steps. Look at your prints on the way back. Where did your feet sink deepest?

  • 4–6 · 6–8 · 8–12 years
  • About 15 minutes
  • Outdoor play

What will your child practise?

Compare footprints in loose and firmer sand.

What you need

A low sandy slope where play is allowed, and a stick.

Step by step

  1. Walk along the flat base. Mark a footprint with a line beside it and look at its edge.
  2. Take short steps up the slope in the same shoes. Mark another print. Look at both from the side.
  3. Ask which print seems deeper. Test the idea with another step in loose and packed sand.