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Searching For the Stickman at Delamere

18th February 2016      Sarah Burns      7 Comments

We are HUGE fans of the Stickman story here, and I’ve been keen to head over to Delamere to do the Stickman trail for some time now.

We headed over on Tuesday morning, it is half term here so we left earlyish as I didn’t want it to be too busy. We got there around 10am and both the children had napped on the way there. They were a little subdued, due to being drowsy and the fact it was pretty cold!

We wrapped up warm and headed off to the trail. It’s not a long walk at all, but the children enjoyed it. Once they’d seen the mini stickman at the start they soon got excited and by the second sign Miss E was keen to get out of the pushchair and charge after Mr D.

There are signs along the way (10 I think) illustrated with pictures from the books and they give you ideas of things to do outdoors, for example building nests with the sticks, talking about winter animals etc.

Stickman Delamere

The children had great fun telling my dad and I the part of the story the pictures came from and pointing out the things they could see (snails!!).  We stopped and looked at all the signs and chatted about them which stretched the walk out a little for us.

We then had a stomp in the wooded area and the children and my Dad collected some sticks with which to make up some stickmen. We also found pinecones and talked about the noises we could hear (mostly the sounds of the leaves crunching under our feet).

Stickman Delamere

We headed back to the car park area and had a bite to eat. Miss E was getting fed up by now, probably cold! So we headed back to the car and home.

When we got back we had some more lunch and watched Stickman and read the book, talking about our walk.

We had a lovely hour or so, and had it not been so cold we might have headed off in search of the Gruffalo again as that trail is still there.

Stickman Delamere

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  1. sarahgoldingphotography says

    18th February 2016 at 20:09

    I was just thinking of taking my boys there, stick man is a favourite so having to read it every night.

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    • Sarah Doyle says

      19th February 2016 at 07:55

      it’s a lovely place to head to x

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  2. sebsmummy says

    18th February 2016 at 20:42

    It sounds like you had fun 🙂 Alex LOVES the Stickman book, I want to take the boys to the trail once baby arrives 🙂

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    • Sarah Doyle says

      19th February 2016 at 07:54

      It was great – I am tempted to go again and do the Stick Man & Gruffalo ones when it isn’t quite so cold

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  3. Tina says

    19th February 2016 at 10:34

    This is such a fun idea! I wish there was something like this close to us 🙂 Thanks for sharing on #ToddlerFunFriday

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  4. playathometeacher says

    1st March 2016 at 13:20

    Ooh I really want to go there! Love your photos. x

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  5. Caroline (Becoming a SAHM) says

    3rd March 2016 at 15:07

    Ah we did the Stick Man trail recently, so much fun aren’t they? Love the huge stick man there too! Xx

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