Glow Trail 4+

Great time and great app

It was fun that we had challenges and you get to see the alien and Shaun with the spacecraft .There was loads of puzzles and you got Shaun the sheep pack with puzzles and a pen . When you shine the pen on the magnifying glass you can see a whole new thing. Also on paper you write and it goes. Shine the light on it you can see it .And if you just wanted to not use the phone and do the trail well just don’t use the phone.

Screen time in nature??

Why are we encouraging children to walk with a phone or iPad? I thought the whole idea of going in to nature was to leave the screens at home. Sad that another money making scheme needs to be aimed at children once again. Also just to add. £3 includes a single use uv light (there isn’t even a pen attached for kids to get extra use from), glossy paper activity sheet, mask... it is not only over priced but unnecessary. What message are we sending to the next generation? Most know our current position with the (lack of) recycling going on in the uk and that’s after being conscious and putting it into the recycling bin. I have never written a review before for an app but this “glow trail” should be reviewed by its creators.... that’s after considering the state the climate is in, the screen time children now have and the messages we are sending to the next generation. Come on....

Developer Response ,

The trail aims to get children active in the forest. We've found that it's helped to encourage those who might not otherwise connect with their environment to explore and get active!

We're cutting down on single use plastic as much as possible and put a lot of thought into how the UV element (which reveals the clues) could work. We felt that a pen torch would be a good solution, offering children something they can use long after finishing the trail (preventing single use). The packs have lots of educational and fun activities that the children can take home and use their pen to complete.

All the money made from the packs goes back into managing the forests for generations to come. The income allows Forestry England to plant more trees, while managing England's forests for wildlife and people.

Great app, shame about the plastic UV torch

Can’t see who to give this feedback to, but I thought it was a shame that every child completing this challenge receives a plastic UV torch (imported from China) in their activity pack, which is incapable of being used for anything other than this trail and with no way to hand the torch back in at the end for another child to reuse. Really wasteful. Couldn’t there just be a button on each clue post to illuminate it?

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your comments. We want to cut down on single use plastic as much as possible and put a lot of thought into how the UV element (which reveals the clues) could work.

We felt that a pen torch would be a good solution, offering children something they can use long after finishing the trail.

The packs have lots of educational and fun activities that the children can take home and use their pen to complete. We hope this trail will help young people begin a life-long relationship with the environment and the forests we care for. It is quite easy to take the pen apart and the main trunk of the pen and the batteries are recyclable.