Educational holidays for children in Ariège: skiing, snowshoeing and sledding

Objective of the stay

• Discover the functioning and activity of a ski resort
• Skiing in a family resort
• Knowing the mountain environment in winter

Workshops & Activities

• The skier’s equipment
• The formation of snow
• Snow and avalanches
• The weather
• The jobs of the station
• Downhill skiing lessons
• Building an igloo
• Survey of the station
• Sliding games

Evenings

• Slide show “the mountain in winter
• Tales and Legends of the Pyrenees
• Slide show “the brown bear of the Pyrenees
• Party

Restitution

To keep a written record of the trip, feedback sheets will be completed with the children for each theme covered during the workshops.

Objective of the stay

• Discover the practice of snowshoeing
• Knowing the mountain environment in winter
• Learn to build an igloo

Workshops & Activities

• Equipment : Snowshoes
• Traces and signs of animal presence
• Staggered vegetation
• Snowshoeing : discovery of the equipment and initiation
• Snowshoeing: observation of animal tracks and clues
• Observation of different plant species in the forest
• Sliding games
• Impression moulds
• Introduction to the use of avalanche transceivers

Evenings

• Slide show “the mountain in winter
• Tales and Legends of the Pyrenees
• Slide show “the brown bear of the Pyrenees
• Party

Restitution

To keep a written record of the trip, feedback sheets will be completed with the children for each theme covered during the workshops.