Off the Peg 

Rucksacks Go Live! 

 

Yes, the rucksacks are strutting their stuff!  

Youngsters with their families or schools are enjoying Runnymede with the LDT rucksacks on backs, while hands, feet and eyes are exploring the landscape in all sorts of unexpected and exciting ways.  

What's special about the steps in the woodland?  How do you find out the age of a tree?  Why is there a tea bag in my rucksack? What's that bug?  Who was John Kennedy?!  Who was King John??!!  The rucksacks can reveal all.

Feedback has been glowing.  Rucksacks - and families - often disappear for 3 or 4 hours at a time.  Believe me, the kids come back with shining eyes.  As one family commented, children often don't want to read traditional infomation signs but the rucksack activities work reallly well.  The best comment I've heard so far - 

 "Even Dad enjoyed it"

  

 

 

 

 

Ready to Go Rucksacks

Runnymede is ready for adventure!  

 

A row of hooks has been added to the features of the newly refurbished Magna Carta Tearoom.  Along with your coffee and cakes, soup and sandwiches, you can now borrow a rucksack, stuffed with a different sort of goodies.  

Yes, the Runnymede explorer rucksacks are now available.  Grab a pack (remember to sign it out at the cafe) and allow your youngsters to embark on a voyage of discovery around Runnymede, delving into the history and landscape of this historic area.  

Open up the trail guide: where shall we go first?   Shall we try the Magna Carta memorial and read the story of King John in the shade (or shelter!) of its circular roof?  Climb the steps through the trees (one step for every state in the Union) to the J F Kennedy Memorial?  Run through the wide grassy meadows - what happened here?  Whoa - there is a huge river flowing by; where did that come from?

Why is there a tea bag in the pack?  Why a measuring tape? A paint brush?  What's this old document all about?

Borrow a rucksack and find out!

Go out number 5 and explore the womders of Runnymede!