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Education Woodland Tasks
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About the Activities
I dare say none of the documented activities are new , in fact they
are mostly likely not. Hopefully some of them will be new to you or
if not totally new they may open up new variations of the activitiy.
Invariably you will customise these activities dependant on
variables such as, timescales, your type of kids , your natural
environment, your imagination and your weather to name a few. In
doing so you often come up with fantastic new activities.
Take any written instruction on these activities and use merley
guidlines and suggestions. Never be afraid to customise and try out
your own flavour on the kids : after all this is half the fun. Also
be open to watch what the kids are doing and are enjoying at that
moment - I have learnt some great activities from letting kids do
what they want.
I spent a lot of time reading books about youth activities whilst also been involved in adult team building , and I can tell you that these activities work well with adults as well.
What is my Experience
I run a self styled outdoor activities company called Do It Outdoors
and have deliver Bushcraft parties to kids from age 7 to 14yrs on a
regular basis. I have run an array of nature activities for schools
and specifically kids with learning difficulties. I also ran a Scout
Group for 7 years and have been involved in the Dof E Award. Oh yes
and I have 2 kids age 4 and 7yrs.
Safety In the Field
Navigation - Loss Proofing - Basic Compass
Survival - Search & Rescue
Loss Proofing - This is a great skill to impart on youths espoecially
when entering new terrain - Making people aware of there surroundings,
sun, wind, terrain, reference points . Constant Awareness
Search and Rescue Activities. You can drop a coin in short grass and
ask the kids to find it using the most efficient search method.
Simple Compasss Exercises - Pacing & 100m square, following a
direction.
Take the kids on a walk to a point. and get them to follow a bearing
that will return them to base.
Use a very simple map and get kids to use it and place some treasure.
Define Woodland Boundries
This is a good warm up activitiy to ensure the kids no the limits of
the activity areas. Set out kids with red flyers or other markers to
set the boudaries. Means that everyone know the limits.
Feely Bag
Get bags with - Old mans beard, leaves, moss acorns , hazel nut. Show
them the real deal and ask them to identify the difference. You can
intially get them to try and guess what they are , but expect low
results . After the first attempt show all the stuff and get them to
have a close look at it touching etc and then try the blinf feely bag
contest again. YOu can put manmade or natural stuff in them.
Mirror Walk
Gice each child a small plastic. Tell the kids that they are going to
learn to view the forest how the creatures of the forest view it.
To view the world as a bird hold the mirror up high so when you look
into it you get a high view.
To view as a rabbit hold the mirror to your nose allowing you to see
almost behind you .
To view as a mouse , crawl on the woodland floor holding the mirror.
To view as a beetle, hold the mirror flat infornt of you looking
upwards.
Simple Map Making
If you have a park they can use sticks to represent the bounaries and
leaves for trees etc. If you have multiple groups making maps then
you can challenge each group to mark on there map a point where they
will put an item (a coin) and another team has to use the map to find
it. This can easily be done on a bit of paper as well. The scale can
be a childs pace (rough but it works)
Forest Art
This could be a whole book on its own. Kids can make 2 d structures
or 3d structures. Using as many materials as possible making it as
eloborate as possible. You can just give them a free go at it or lead
them slightly by getting them to create a face or a self supporting
structure from sticks, You might be near sand or mud which can be
used in its own right or as part of a bigger picture.
Identify as many different Plant in a Typical
Lawn
Clover
Plantain
Dandilion
Buttercups
Daisy
Frisbie Color walk
Describe what is found and the colors . Get kids to throw a frisbie,
the groupd follow the frisbie and investigate where it lands ,
spotting new colors etc,. Offcourse this can be expanded to
discussing the tree or plant it falls closest to and many other
subjects - it just needs imagination.
Un-Nature trail
Use manmade objects scattered along a trail. Set the objects along the
trail on the ground in trees etc and walk along with kids not telling
them and see if they saw anything. Next time ask them to be vigilant.
YOu can vary this by asking them to set out a course. The key to this
is to remember where you put the items yourself. If the kids are
unprimed you can be sure that on the first pass the kids will spot
nothing (especially the older they get) , be it an made or anything
else. Sometimes though with the very young you can barely move as
they are so intrigued my the most unlikely objects.
Find a leaf discover a tree
Set kids out to fetch as many leaves aspossible and then examine each
one. After examining them ask select a leaf and challenge them to
find that tree. On finding thee tree touch feel and teach all about
the tree.
Circle Observation Excavation
Create a foot diameter circle or square foot for the kids to excavate.
See how many different objects they can find, colors etc. Apart from
discovering a huge variety in a small space you can challenge the kids
to place all the items back where they found them emphasising at the
end how easy it is to destroy and how dificult it is to fix.
Stuff a box
See how many nature items you can queeze into one small box. Match box
or tin box is fine. You can then count them, Most people are amazed.
Making up a Story
The Journey Stick COncept - Memory Bag
Go for walk, use stick to remember what you did on the day. Attach
items to the stick with coloured wool you supplied at the start. They
can then tell a story of the day.
Collect Wood (Faggots)
This is often a good way to get them to collect enough for a fire or
build mini shelters. You can then get them to grade (catagorise) the
sticks in to small medium and large, dry and wet long and short. To
limit the trips they make back and forward see if they can invent ways
to carry more stick such as using rope, roots of trees or bendy
sticks. In days gone by this was an important task and still is in
some countries.
Collect Resources Excercise
Have groups of kids to compete with each other gathering specific
resources. Imagine the kids have to survive and to do so they must
collect food like, meat nuts, flour and anything you can think of.
Tell them that just for today the meat will be dead sycamore leaves,
the flower will be old acorns or beach nuts or hazel nuts and the
flour is any other kind of leaves and challange the kids to collect
the largest piles of each to simulate food collection.
Types of Fire
Explain that there are many different types of fires for many
different reasons. (I will expand this)
A very good old Indian saying "White man build big fire ,sit far away,
Indian make small fire sit close."
Fire Preparation
Inform the kids that they are to make a fire in groups of 2 or 3.
Explain to them only one of the fires will be lit, it being the one
that all the others vote as the most likely to catch fire. Give a
demonstration of how to build a tepee fire. Dont be fooled intot
hinking this is easy even for an adult. Advice
First explain that one must locate a safe and practical location for
the fire
The identified areas must be cleared of forest debris or if grass a
pit creatred by removing the layer of turf
Show them how to create a base or raft to stop dampness getting to the
fire
Explain to them that tinder must be collected before the sticks will
light
Explain where to collect kindling wood from and the thickness required and the amount required.
Show them how to create the tepee starting from thin to thicker with
the tinder in the middle.
Let the kids get on with this activitiy and then judge all the fires
and get them to vote on the best and then get them to nominate a fire
lighter and then light it. Offcourse you can then go around and light
all the others.
Finish by extigguising all fires and making the area good. (No trace
fires)
Shelter Building
There are many different types you can use with kids. A good starter
is arrive with a number of staves and old tarpolines and see what they
can construct. Alternatively you can get them to build shelter from
the sticks and leaves lying around. (I will add some picture and
expand this)
Make a Hedge Hog
Mud pie scultured into hedgehog or animal of choice and Sticks to make
look like a hedgehog.
Make a pencil from elder and charcoal
Hollow out a piece of elder and split a bit of charcaol from a fire or
shop into the end.
Stake and Mallet Game
A relay game , each team have mallet and have to drive a stage into
the ground the fastest. Each kid only gets one shot
Stick race
Example - 10 kids and 9 sticks. Place the stick all in a heap or
spread out . The kids lie on there tummies in a line facing the
oposite direction of the sticks. You quielty lay out the sticks and
on ready steady go the kids have to find a stick (last is out). They
then hepl you in the game.
Use chalk on slates to draw a map
Get a collection of slates and chalk and use them as scribes for all
manner of things
Games Outside
Stealth Game
Set out a square - the IT persons stands with eyes closed and counts
to 30 aloud. All scatter and find cover. IT persons opens eyes and
trys to locate as many persons as possible (by name). IT person
closes eyes & counts to five, opens eyes and again trys to spot
people. The hiders have to get to the IT persons.
Stalking Game(water pistol)
Have on e person sitting blindfolded with a waterpistol and one or 2
persons have to crawl towards that person and remove a set of keys
wityhout been squirted (Tips minimise the amount of stalkers and make
them crawl and only allow the blindfolded person a set number of
shots.
Camoulfage under leaves
Get the kids to cover completely there partner in leaves and see if
another couple can find that person.
Camouflage Kids
Challenge the kids to disguise them selves as best they can using
foliage and charcaol and earth. Cover self in leaves - smear the juice
from elder leaves on there faces.
Kick the Can - ONe kid is it. One of the others kicks the can as far
as possible. The IT persons has to retrieve the can to a defined
spot. In the time it takes to retrieve the can the other have to find
a hiding place. The IT person now has to rumble the others. Once
rumbled there is a race to the can. The iT person has to touch it
before the other kicks it. The others can also save themselves by
getting to the can before the IT person has spotted them.
Leg Wrestling - 2 persons lie on their backs opposite each other same
leg intertwinned and similar to an arm wrestle they use there leg to
roll the person over.
Arm Slapping - Take the press up position facing your partner and try
and slap there arms away to make the other fall.
Sock wrestling - 2 persons facing each other on their knees. Each
only wearing one sock half on . They have to snatch the sock of the
other person without getting of there knoees. You can create a ring
for them to stay in.
Hopping Dodgems - Arms folded and hopping try to unblance your
friends.
Create a ring of diameter approx 2m with 2 person on the outside edge.
Each competitor pick up the ends of a rope (with loops) and tries to
pull each other into the ring.
Sumo - With out holding push the other out of the ring. Looks good
with life jackets worn as pants.
Who Can place the Can Furthest Out- Ensure that I have a tin of beans
or equivalent and the person has to walk out with the 2 cans and leave
one as far as they can stretch returniong with 1 can out touching the
ground.
Follow the clug path through the woods - Drag a bit of wood through
the forest and get other group to follow the trail.
Back to back standing up - Back to back arms intertwinned , pushing
against each other try to stand. Try to build the numbers.
Tug of War - Three way tug of war. Use gloves for this.
Toss the Caber - Acquire mini cabers. Go to a felled forest as there
is literally tons of waste.
Capture the Flag
Bring Kids to there Senses
Walk like a fox
Listen like a wolf (Drum in the woods;Tracking Game)
See like an owl(Water pistol Game; Hide the Mug; Set items along a
trail
Feel like a snail (Blind fold crawl)
Hide like a leapard (Bury self in leaves; Stalking Game)
Creating Mini Structures
Ask kids to make a small dwelling for action man/doll sized people or
create a fairy land.
Make small houses and a fence , roads and tracks , flags and whatever
their imagination lets them.
Bamboo Spear
Tracking Game
Explain what tracking is all about. In our scenario it is all about
leaving signs in order for others to folow /track us down.For starters
you could even give each group different coloured ribbon to follow.
You must be able to see the next ribbon. Then you can develop the
activiity by explainthat we need to make up track signs for left
/right/forward/backwards/look up/wait. Make sure there is a sign
every 10 paces or so , so that the kids expect to find something.
When they get more accustomed to picking out the signs you can space
them out and make them more subtle.
Fun from a stick
Find a stick remember your stick intimately and then mix them all up
and get them to find it again . You will find they all get very
attached to them.
Now ask them to find a stick that could be used for :-
A stick that could be used as a tent peg
A stick that looks like a number (apart from 1)
A stick that has a strange face in it.
A wet stick
A rotten stick
Taking the stick activitiy further each group or person can attempt to
determine how the would got to be where it was and the state it is
on. Tell a story about the stick - When did the stick fall from the
tree , how long ago etc -M AYBE AN OVERWRIGHT OWL PERCHED ON IT
Log Dragging
Suprisingly kids will do this. Find or ,pre liekly place some long
logs 10ft long and quite heavy. Attach a long rope to each log and
split your group in to two teams and ask them to drag it to a point.
They appear to relisdh the challenge and the competition. Beware the
kid nearest the log doent catch their heal on the log. Altenatively
get them to carry it. Tell them they are going to bring resources to
make a bridge.
Water - Gypsy Well
Dig a hole in marshy land and watch the water back fill. Clear the
water out if it is very muddy and then let it refill untill it is
clear and then carefully take the water out with a cup. This is a
resonably safe way of getting clear water where you only have a marsh
and no river. You can then filter it again.
Water - Distillation
Boil dirty water water and capture steam in a hanky ot put a pipe on
the end of a kettle leading to another container. The steam will
condense into walter droplets.
Water - Filter
Using a sock or similar
Water Transpiration
Use a solar still or leaves wrapped in poly bag. A very marginal
activity in Scotland.
Boil Water in a Coke Bottle
This is a great physics experiment. Why can you do this ? Make sure
its the thicker type of plastic bottle. Utube links.
Larch Branches
Using the young shoots of Larch - coil 3 or 4 together to make a very
strong ring and play a game of hoops.
Thread bigger leaves onto the larch to make headdresses.
This can be used to make a camoflage suit
Tell Kids about it being good for reppelling insects.
Create a Survival Signal Fire
Create a tripod and create a platform and cover with earth and build
your fire on it.
Hammock Seat
Fold in half and and hang on a tripod and stick thru bottom of
hammock
Hazel Nut Analysis
Use my charts and pictures to identify what animal has eaten them.
Birds, squirrel or mouse.
Attracting Animals
Waiting , woodpecker drum sticks , hoot for owls, twitter for birds,
ducks and deer calls, rodent calls
Other Camp Projects
Create a washing line & pegs - Using green wood to make a peg.
Create a seat with a tripod with a willow back or canvas
Broom Stick - use broom or birch twigs tied together to make a small
hand bruch.
Hanging rack - a bit like a ladder
Carve Project
- Knife & Fork
- Digging stick
- Spoon
- Chop sticks
- Tongs
- Whistles
Pot Hangers
Snares
Tent Pegs
Cloth Hangers
Priest
Needle
Hook
Spool for chord
Throwing Stick
Rush Lights
I will add some links in here.
Clug rolling game
Get two clugs and select two teams and run as a relay race . Object to
roll the clug in and out of an assault course.
Wood Splitting
Split a peice of larch with wood staves
Split small diater stick wioth a clug and knife
Split with a broke Axe
Using an axe without a clug
Safe ways of using an axe with children
Elder Whistle
Willow Whistle
Making a whitle from sycamore twigs
User elder stick as a straw or ember blower for a bowl
To get clear water from a puddle - To clear the centre out use a
steel cloths hanger or a knitting neddle.
Bird Box/Bat Box /Bug Box
This could be for kids partys - There are plenty of web designes out
there. Just buy some lenghts of railing ,nails and saws.
Cooking Ideas without utencils
Fish in Newspaper
Bacon in a Bag
Egg in ashes(peirce a whole in egg and lay in ashes
Egg in a Orange
Bannock - Flour,water,sugar and a bit of raising agent.
Toast on a stick
Ready Cake & Pancake Mix and bag it ready for use..
Cooking on Slates are very effective and in my experience dont
explode.
Cooking in Ovens - Use an old bin.
Patatoes in Clay , grass bundles, or dock leaves
Sausage on a green stick
Fish on a skure - needs some practice
Sauage in a banana skin
Bananana splits (Chocalate buttons or kitcats)
Smoos - Toasted marshmallow inbetween tea biscuits
Bake potatoes wrapped in leaves (dock leaves , lots of them - they
will always get charred but not so bad in the leaves)
Edible Stuff
Any activitiy of this sort must be done with the utmost care and the
kids should always be introduced to basic plant identification
activties first.
The importance of good book guides should be emphasised. Always check
whether the kids have any allergies. If I find they have a string of
intolerances
to foods I would avoid giving them anything. This is where the medical
history comes inhandy. If you are going to introduce any wild foods
you can state them
on a form signed by parents.
Primrose flower and leaf
Hawthorn leaf and flower (poor mans Cheese and bread)
Tops of Nettle (Full of Iron)
Pignut (Carbo)
Wood Sorrel
Pine needles as a tea or chewed to get vit c
Acorns (boiled , strained and boiled and strained)
Hazel Nuts
Birch Leaves and Nuts roasted
Lime Leaves in salads and Flowers in a tea
Inner Barks of particular trees.
Birch Sap - Only in early spring
Water Cress
Dandieline (Flowers and leaves and roots)
Beach - young leaves
Syacamore leaves - Young
Nasturtium - Leaves and flowers
Daisies: the petals are edible
Clover: this grows wild in many fields and gardens. As children we
used to look for clover in the fields and try sucking the sweet nectar
out of the trumpets. However, the whole flower is actually edible and
a high source of protein - though better digested when boiled lightly
for 5 - 10 minutes
Yew Fruit (red bit) - The rest of the tree is deadly poisonous
Oak Leaves (young)
Elder - I eat the flowers in summer and the berries in autumn. The
flowers infuse in hot water beautifully. This is probably the most
popular use of the plant. The leaves are insect repellent, but the
rest of the tree should be considered poisoness.
Larch Needles (Medicinal - insect repellant, rubbed on skin)
Willow - chew a bit of bark as a pain killer.
Cleavers - young shoots
Ground Elder (need to identify carefully)
Chickweed
HOG Weed (need to identify carefully)
Thistles - Root and leaves
Setting up a Pot hanger over a Fire
Tripod
On a Long Lever
Cooking in the Oven
Print out laminated examples
Have some pre-cut forked staves to assist
Making Birch Pitch
Use a large can of beans(empty) and a smaller tin (regular size).
Peirce the large tin in bottom. Pack ful of birch bark and place on
top of the small tin which shall be used to collect the pitch . PLace
small tim in a reces in the ground and the large tinm ontop and stacj
the fire around it.
Put on the fire for a couple of hours and the resulting liquid is
fairly watery and extremely smelly. This then has to be boiled and
reduced down to a tar which can then be used for sealing and glueing.
Making Charcaol from Paint Tins or charcloth
One 1ltr paint tin stripped of paint and a peiced on lid with a nail
Small pencil tin and old jeans . Pierce small hole in ti and place
jean in tin and place on fire.
Make a Stretcher
Set Out a NUmber of poles and a couple of old jumpers
Make an "A frame" also
Water Session
Water Filtration and purification (Filtration very important to
remove particles where bacteria can harbour and survive a boil.
Water Collection - Dew, leaves, solar stills , gypsy well
Good places , bad places
Animal Sign , agriculture and industry
Distill to remove heavy metals - Boiling could concentrate them.
Issues - Guardia, cryto sporiduium, water bourne tick disease,
varuous bacteria and viruses.
Finding North - Sun , tree signs
Stake out some wood and mark the sun (In british sumemr use 1pm)
Use trees to indicate where South and mosses
Heavy moss can indicate north but often just the wet side of the tree
Trees can indicate the prevailing wind, offcourse you need to know the
prevailing wind direction
USe your watch (point hour hand to the sun and bisect the angle
between that and 12. (1pm in british summer time)
What side of the path dries first
Explain the difficulty of finding north
Use stick dial on sunny day
Use watch on Sunny day
USe Prevailing wind.
Fire Starting Techniques
Cross Lay
Wigwam
Setting a base
Lean to on a driven in stick
Protecting from the wind
Creating a reflector
Tinder bundle Collection ( in wet and dry conditions)
Spark takers - Birch bark, amadou, horses hoof, charcloth, Seed heads,
grasses, dried barks.scots pine root.
Using a fire steel
Using a flint and charcloth
Using a 9v battery with some steel wool(demo)
Matches
tassium Permanganate
Magnifying Glass
Fire Material Search
Kindling - Enforce the importance of size and dryness and establish
where you could find dry stuff.
Tinder Search - birch,grass,bracken,charcoal
Kindling Search - Faggots and bound in rootlets/Fire Sticks
Articficial - Rubber
Grind some Seeds with a Stone
Docken seeds
Basic Navigation
Follow A Compass Bearing -Get the Kids in the woods and ask them to
Navigate back to base
Loss Proofing - Take on a walk and try and locate there position
Using Nature to Help Us fin ourselves
Blind fold and get to walk in a straight line
Make a Map - Make a forest floor map and hide an object to prove it
works
Caledonian Candle
Set one alight for each Bushcraft Party
SOAPS
Bracken
Use the root and rub with water (dangers of handling bracken)
Wood Ash
Soak over night and drain.
Horse Chestnut Leaves
Rub Together in water and eventually a slight foam fill be created
Sawing Activity for Kids & Safety
Basically this uses three kids to cut a bit of wood and leaves your
hands free. Shear Lash two bit of hazel or similar approx 5ft long
and put the pole to be cut through the v . Two hold the wood and one
saws.
Using a glove on lose hand
Sap from Birch Tree
Use a hand drill with a large bit.
and a peice of elder for a channel
Make Lime Bark Cordage
Set Snares for Rabbit and Pheasant
Descent your hands. Check warren is fresh ; check its a rabbit hole.
Hole trap for a Pheasant
Tree Spung trap for a Rabbit
Figure 4 trap
Set Up Trip Wires
Use tin cans with holes punched in them
Build a Simple Bridge
Across the River , even on the wee hike, leave it pre built
Try and Set a Deadfall Trap
Use long squared of machined wood for starters to get the hang of it.
Hudson Bay Ruck Sack
Sawn Wood Projects
Bird Box - Or the Clug Bird Box (Gordon style)
Bug Hut
Bat Hut
Willow Projects
Cut & Strip the BArk from aa willow for Cordage
Strip bark from a live tree
Medical Properties - similar effect to Aspiran
Mystical Properties -
Willow Fish
Will Laurel
Willow Fence /Wind Break
Willow /Rowan Whistle
Willow Candle Holder or other wood addinga bit of bark to protect from
the wind.
Tongs
Coat/mug hanger
Insect Repelent
Elder Leaves
Larch Needles
Cut Knettles for flies
Mint Leaves for mice
Oak mulch to repel slugs
Camaflage
Get kids to smear mud and charcoal on there faces. Also try elder
leaves crushed untill a green juice is extracted.
Natural Chord
Go to the SPruces Tree and find the roosts - Cut and use as a bid
Go to deciduous trees and look for rootlets.
Look for long rushed or grasses
Look for bendiny branches and withies.
Nettles
Set a Clothes Line and pegs
Use some para chard and some split sticks(use wood splitter) to make
pegs or just twist the line.
Tracking
Identify rabit runs and the bounding patterns - trappled grass and
droppings.
Deer runs and trails - chued trees and shrubs.
Set a trail with a large Clug ot spruce branch and see if a group can
follow it.
Set a trail with bits if string and then progress onto string with
more natural materials (String with a wooden arrow)
Trip Wires
Use Tin Cans and rope for trip wires
Match Burn
Test to see how good are at lighting a match.
Match Relay race
Candle race
Clug Rolling
Ask then to see if they can roll a clug to a point and then get them
to retrieve it.
Bug Hunts
So can use special bug boxes with build in maginfying glasses, but
they are not neccessary. Hunt centipedes, Bees, Slugs, milliepedes,
spiders etc and explain the part they play in the eco system of the
forest (i.e.Decomposing and food and pollination.)
Follow the Drum or Whistle thru the woods
Cutting Tool
Building Tripods and shear lashing
Can be done under shelter
Blind Trails
Match Color Charts
MAtch a color on a chart with Nature
Bug Hunts
Talk also about how important trees are especially oaks and birch.
Insect Games
Spider Game - add tin cans to web
Butterfly Game - set wine bottles out full of juice and put flowers
over them (They look like flowers). Get long straws and get kids to
pretent they are butterfly and suck the juice (Nectar ) from the
bottles. The longer the straws the harder , no hands allowed. Make
into a relay race.
Rope Coiling and Rope Throwing
Use to check the strength of rotten branches.
Spearing a Floating Sock
Kids stuff a sock with straw or dead grass. Then get them to make
spears and throw them at the socks/fish
Creating Make Shift Shelters
Creat mini shelters and villages from sticks and leaves.
Weapons & Warfare
Find and Throw Sticks
Get to know your stick - create a hanging targets through the
woodland
Catapult
Bow and Arrow
Ball bag
Spear
Camfualage - get mud , levaes charcoal and branches)
Create a warfare chant
Choose a base and barracade it (capture flag)
Cast an animal print or your own foot print
Get some fast setting plater and make a muddy bit and then put foot in
and take a mould.
Fire by friction
Use a bow and drill set to get smoke.
Knife Projects
Knife Law
Safe Handling
Basic Strokes - grips
Storing and shaperning
Different types of knive
Cutting through a large stick - smallcuts all round - beding over and
cut at tension
Splitting wood with the knife
Sharp point
Knotches
Chislel points
Making a hole
Pot hanger
Whistle
Tent Peg
Cloths Peg
Deadfall trap
V-notch for arrows and rods
Cutting Holes
How to cut through saplings
Spoon Carving
Hazel and Birch Forks and Knifes finished with pine root.
Tongs
Feather Flower
Feather Sticks
Elder man (Tiki Man)
Elder Beads
Candle holder
Hook Making from a feather and thron bush
Using a small hand Axe safely
Illustrate how sharp
demonstrate how to cut (only on a clug for young ones)
Make them kneel and mark a spot beyond the centtre of the clug to
place the wood to be cut.
Keep spectator well away.
Use another stick to stop the stick from falling over , never use the
other hand,
explain the Parts of an axe
Using a Large Chopping Axe
See my pictures. Below the knee prtection.
Rope Projects
Timber Hitch - Easy to learn - a good knot for starting lashings or
just pulling logs
Tarp Knots - Evenk
Guy rope tensioner
Prusik Knot - Rope gripper
Find a Coin Using A planned strategy
There are several different search patterns. Drop a penny in grass in
a fairly large areas and get the kids to search it out. Try different
organised ways to see if it speeds them up.
Identify several animals from the Animal Tracking Chart
From a Tracking Chart and scat chart and a tracking stick identify
several animals(or as many as you can)
Identify several different animal signage
Scat, hoof/paw prints, hair, broken twigs trails and runs
Use illustrated pictures that they can refer to.
Identify Three Different Trees (more for bonuses)
A clue could be my identification sheets. The group requires to
actually show and explain to the facilitiator
Spot the Difference(Kims Game OUtdoors)
Ring fence a spot and put in a series of natural objects and then
remove them or change the order they are in - such as the Rabbit and
Kestral.
Create Activitiy Cards and Reference Books
The reference books could complement the task
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John Gordon Charity Entry Forms
(Running & Biking Races)
