2A
Sensory Activities
Goal
You'll learn more about your site through sensory activities
Objectives
Each person will have a more personal understanding of the site
Activity
Steps:
Go out to your site and do one of the following sensory activities.
A: Lead people across the site blindfolded. Ask them to notice sounds and smells. While they're walking, ask them if they know where they are on the site.
B: Find all of the colors you can in your site.
C: Find all of the living things you can in your site. Which are plants and which are animals?
D: Find all the walls, fences, structures, and other 3 dimensional objects. Touch them and notice their textures.
E: Walk around the site and notice the sounds in each area of the site.
F: Walk around and notice all the smells in your site.
G: Ask people if they know which direction they're facing. Bring a compass. Draw a north arrow on the ground. Ask the whole group to jump north, south, east, west. Play it as a game like Simon Says.
H: Ask people if they can tell the slope of the site. Can they feel if the ground is slanted? Can they see the slope? Roll a ball or pour water on the site. Does it roll to the low point?
I: Feel where it's warmer, and where it's colder. Why? Is it because of sun and shadows? Because of wind? Where are the windy areas of the site? Go stand in them.
J: Ask people to go to the area of the site where they feel safest. Then ask them to go where they feel least safe, if it is in fact safe to do so. Ask them to go where they feel most happy, and least happy. Why do they feel this way about these areas?
2. Come inside and draw, write in journals & make maps of your sensory experiences.