One of the challenges of running a firewalk, especially a school or charity firewalk, is that it involves so many families… and with families come kids… and kids always want to firewalk too.
The age of someone allowed to firewalk is a hotly contested issue within the community and I’ll do a separate post on that in due course. One of our answers is to this issue is to run a LEGO walk too.
So what is a LEGO walk? Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like! We’ve all done it before, trodden on a piece of LEGO at 3am in the morning, and it’s been excruciating. So why not extend that out for 2.5m with 10,000 bricks!?
Our LEGO walks are designed specifically for younger feet, and the challenge is built to mimic a firewalk while being entirely safe. The clear advantage is that a LEGO walk can happen at the same time as the firewalk training, thereby giving the kids a firewalk-like activity, and one that they can get sponsored to so they can raise money as well. We have found that they love this experience. It also raises surprising amounts of money for the campaign or charity for which the firewalk is being run.
Often kids will go around grandparents and neighbours getting your traditional £5 or so sponsorship for a sponsored walk, but for a LEGO walk instead. They can even be given a certificate at the end.
At our recent Firewalk for Miserden School, while we were training the adults to walk fire, around 20 children walked the lego, raising £hundreds for the school.
One of the mums in the training had two children doing the walk and she shared… ‘Bella is Aged 7 and Tayah is 12 (pictured here) and they both gave it ago. We got grandparents to sponsor their walk. Bella said she walked on the Lego and it made her toes hurt, but she kept doing it. They both enjoyed it, and even though it hurt, according to Bella, it was good fun.‘
All in all, it’s an excellent addition to a charity firewalk, and we supply ours upon request for free as part of our firewalk packages.
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Firewalk instructor, best selling author and film director, Chris has been training people, making movies and writing books for three decades. When he is not running a firewalk, he is currently directing splinter unit on Mission: Impossible 8.
