Suggestions for activity for preschool children on Zelenica

The focus of this thesis is on the significane of hiking for pre-school children. It is trying to establish which movement activities can be preformed on Zelenica, thus a list of suggestions for movement activities for pre-school children are presented. Such activities would diversify the stay or just a visit to Zelenica. With this purpose a monographic research method has been used, a detailed examinations of hiking trails to Zelenica has been conducted and the wider surroundings of the lodge and the accomodation on Zelenica have been studied. With the help of the descriptive method of educational research we have made a list of suggestions for movement activities in the lodge and its surroundings as well as a list of access ideas. Our basis has been the integrated development of pre-schoolers, considering all the developmental patterns which influence the teaching methods. We have tried to present mountain hiking to children as a game with choices, thus motivating the child as well as following the developmental patterns and enabling the right and optimal amount of everything. Mountain hiking should be at an easy and steady pace without stopping, being monotonous so that it can be endured longer. In pre-school period such pace is impossible, which is what adults accompaying childeren often forget, thus forcing children to go against themselves. Therefore, the goal of this thesis is to show that considering the very nature of a child such problems can be avoided with suitable preparation. Such problems can even be resolved by introducing hiking as a game.