Children's Bushcraft

[windz1000r]

i know this is a old thread
ive just been scanning over and it has given me some brilliant idea to try with my kids
we home ed and take them to forest school once a week.
but now have some new ideas to try with them all thanks

 

[FerlasDave]

If anyone is still looking for more resources, a friend lent me these two books recently that are very helpful.

“Forest school adventure” and “I love my world”

I’ve tried uploading pictures but it doesn’t seem to want to work..

 

[windz1000r]

If anyone is still looking for more resources, a friend lent me these two books recently that are very helpful.

“Forest school adventure” and “I love my world”

I’ve tried uploading pictures but it doesn’t seem to want to work..

ive just been looking at the forest school adventures on amazon
ill put it in my basket
and ill have a look for the i love my world

 

[Prepper boy]

I've been looking about for information on bushcraft for Children and there's hardly anything that's orientated around the younger generation, the future generation of bushcrafters.

So, I want some help from you lot to compile a list of activities, with descriptions as appropriate, of activities for kids. Feel free to list obvious things as well as more abstract and I would like everything you can think of, this is the opportunity for a huge brainstorm ):

The activities can be practical and theoretical, interactive or presentational...Whatever, as long as it's orientated around younger people.

I'm looking forward to hearing your suggestions and I'll compile them into a resource that we can all use.

Cheers :You_Rock_

I got taught bushcraft by a few books I found left around the house and knives and lighter from a young age with no technology. Just give a kid a knife and tell them that they might be allowed a plaster in an emergency and buy them survival gear when they ask for it if it is cheap and if its not cheap take it out of their pocket money.

 

[NatureNestNomad]

Hi, I would propose:
Basic Shelter Building - Teach kids how to construct simple shelters using natural materials, fostering survival skills and creativity.

Plant Identification and Foraging and

Outdoor First Aid Basics

 

[GrandadInTheWoods]

Bit late for this thread, but I take my boys out and they like looking for things like king alfred cake the tinder fungus, fat wood and making little temporary camp items like a little table out of sticks ect

 

[HereBeDragons]

There’s always “Scouting for Boys”
Just a few quid in many places
Mine is old and dogeared, sits next to Lofty Wiseman’s SAS survival handbook

 

[LRS121]

I've been looking about for information on bushcraft for Children and there's hardly anything that's orientated around the younger generation, the future generation of bushcrafters.

So, I want some help from you lot to compile a list of activities, with descriptions as appropriate, of activities for kids. Feel free to list obvious things as well as more abstract and I would like everything you can think of, this is the opportunity for a huge brainstorm ):

The activities can be practical and theoretical, interactive or presentational...Whatever, as long as it's orientated around younger people.

I'm looking forward to hearing your suggestions and I'll compile them into a resource that we can all use.

Cheers :You_Rock_

I'm new here and just learning everything on here so i'm not sure if this is allowed, I do a skill levels with my son with an outdoor group and we take pictures and video to show it being done.
It gives my son and I something to do together and he learns how to do it several ways by researching and watching videos of that skill and other kids learn how to do it by watching him.

 

[John Shevchenko1]

I have a country house and there is a river nearby and there are islands on the river. My children and I often go to the islands, everything there is very wild, the kitchen is made of wood and near wild boars and there are a lot of insects. But my children like it, I show them the basics of bushcraft there, they each have their own knife and I can say with accuracy what they will survive in the wild