PARK EXPLORERS SENSORY TRAIL

Discover the park afresh with all your senses as you wander this gentle, mindful sensory trail designed for all ages to enjoy

Paper guides for our new sensory trail are available at the main Alcester Rd entrance – or you can download it here:

Scroll down for Audio version, Text-only version, Easy read version, and higher contrast map for use with accessible versions.

If you have questions about access or any other comments about the trail, please email community@moseleypark.co.uk

MAP

AUDIO VERSION: Coming soon

EASY-READ VERSION: Coming soon

TEXT-ONLY VERSION:

** HEALTH AND SAFETY WARNING **

Children must be supervised by a responsible adult.

Please note, some plants in the park are poisonous!!

Please only touch + taste plants as suggested, using care and discretion and being wary of insects. Living cooking herbs are edible, but other leaves and plant parts may fall in the planter: please take care to only eat herbs.

START TRAIL:

Use this guide to help you find the orange waymarkers + give you ideas for exploring the park using your senses.

The trail is designed so that everyone can engage with it in their own way: please
interpret the activities as you wish. It follows the main path so is wheelchair accessible.
We recommend you take your time and breathe gently.

Please start at the noticeboard by the main Alcester Rd gate.

1.Here at the boundary, two words meet.

Shut your eyes and still your feet:

Slow down as the land shifts gears,

And name the sounds that greet your ears.

2. Centuries old and rooted deep

(Too big for man or dog to leap).

Stare up close at swirling bark

With nooks and crannies, light and dark.

3. Leaves above and leaves all round:

Canopy with leaves is crowned.

Feel the wind that makes them dance,

And gently mimic their romance.

4. Circles, circles, everywhere!

Over here, and way up there.

Count how many you can see,

And whisper what their colours be.

5. Life’s a beech, and so am I.

Feel my smooth grey bark, and sigh.

Stroke the veins of my soft leaves –

In and out, the woodland breathes.

6. Flowers bloom and flowers fade,

Watch their seasonal parade:

Colours pop like splashing paint!

Scents that linger, oh-so-faint…

7. Pick a leaf and sniff it first. 

Rub the herb – the scent will burst.

Try a little taste to find 

The memories it brings to mind.

8. Round the corner, round the back –

Hidden workshops, tyre track.

Listen to the background sounds,

And spin them as you turn around.

9. Up above the birds so high

Treetops glisten in the sky:

Silhouettes that dance and play.

Daylight glows and melts away.

10. Footpath winds through darker ground.

Slow down by an ivy mound:

Breathe the dank and damp wood air…

What’s that smell from over there?

11. Bark weaves patterns, willow too:

Line them up to see anew.

Shades of beige and brown swim by –

Trace their shapes with your mind’s eye.

12. Avenue of tinted trees:

Name the colours of their leaves.

Move between their muted hues,

Searching them for rainbow clues.

13. Monolith, a statue tree

And bug hotel – just look at me!

A thousand holes for busy critters:

Watch them move and get the jitters.

14. Logs of dead wood, one – two – three –

Down beneath the pale fork tree:

Rub their bark all rough and grained,

Unlike the cut end, smooth and planed.

15. Settle here and rest awhile –

Thank a friend who makes you smile.

Watch the little waves appear…

How many animals can you hear?