Over the coming weeks, enjoy a (socially distant) Christmassy walk around North Tyneside’s town centres following The Snowman and The Snowdog trail.

This winter, North Tyneside’s most prominent shopping areas are delighted to welcome Wild In Arts festive sculpture trail celebrating Raymond Briggs’ quintessential Christmas characters, The Snowman and The Snowdog.

The ‘Walking with The Snowman and The Snowdog’ trail is made up of 20 stunning sculptures featuring twelve giant Snowman and eight Snowdog.

Each of The Snowman figures have been reimagined with stunning designs and decoration relating to the song, ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’.

The sculptures are waiting to be discovered in and around North Tyneside, specifically Wallsend, North Shields, Killingworth, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay.

The trail is centred around North Tyneside’s shopping areas to hopefully encourage those completing the trial to support small businesses and shop local in the run up to Christmas.

An interactive app costing 99p, which includes a trail map and sculpture information, is available for download in the app store with the proceeds going to St Oswald’s Hospice.

Alternatively, you can visit https://walkingwiththesnowman.co.uk/event/north-tyneside-2020/ to view all of the sculptures and download the trail map there.

After visiting each sculpture, you can share your ‘snowfies’ with the sculptures using: #SnowmanandSnowdogNT

Local artist Lisa Kirkbride designed the A Partridge in a Pear Tree Snowman, which can be found outside “For the Love of the North” at Spanish City in Whitley Bay. Prints and Christmas cards based on Lisa’s design can be purchased in-store, online and in selected St Oswald’s Hospice shops.

You can also bring home the magic of The Snowman and The Snowdog Trail North Tyneside 2020 with Snowdog figurines available in-store at “For the Love Of The North” or online at https://www.snowdogarttrails.co.uk/shop/.

The Snowman and The Snowdog trail is available from Saturday 14th November through to the end of January 2021 so plenty of time to get out there and find them all.

If you do manage to spot the sculptures, I’d love to know which one(s) is your favourite, we have ours!

This initiative is organised by North Tyneside Council and Wild in Art and is supported by the North of Tyne Combined Authority.