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Forest School Handbook

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Forest School Handbook is a lively collection of activities, crafts, bushcraft skills and nature-based play which will inspire kids to thrive outside. Whether just out for a walk, going camping or ...
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  • 30 May 2023
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Forest School Handbook is a lively collection of activities, crafts, bushcraft skills and nature-based play which will inspire kids to thrive outside. Whether just out for a walk, going camping or exploring in the woods, this handy-sized book will be your essential guide for connecting with the natural world. Packed with ideas and activities for children of all ages, there are bushcraft basics, survival skills, nature crafts and ideas for both energizing and peaceful outdoor play. 


Encouraging controlled risk taking, boosting social skills, wellbeing and a healthy resilience, this is the ultimate way to avoid battles over screen time and classroom-induced fatigue

 

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Price: $24.99
Pages: 168
Publisher: Guild of Master Craftsman
Imprint: GMC Publications
Publication Date: 30 May 2023
Trim Size: 8.25 X 5.81 in
ISBN: 9781784946654
Format: Paperback
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Introduction

Playing in nature


Nature Awareness

Mini beast hunting

Night vision

Muddy tracks

Sit spot

Stalking walks

Flour trail tracker

Observation stations

Get to know a tree

Camouflage hands

Outdoor games


Outdoor crafts

Bird feeder

Bug hotel

Playing with clay

Leaf and flower plaques

Natural collage and sculptures

Goblin villages and mini dens

Nest building

Storytelling stones

Leaf printing

Nature weaving

Shadow painting

Leaf watercolour

Nature journal

Leaf bunting

Stick boats

Things to do with conkers


Useful knots

Knot terminology

Clove hitch

Double half hitch

Sheet bend

Siberian hitch

Timber hitch

Prusik

Square lashing

Slippery guy line

Canadian jam knot

Sledge knot

Hanking cord


Shelters and dens

Lean-to shelter

A-frame shelter

Baker’s tarp

Tarp bender

Fire

Safety

Sources of tinder

Firewood

Lighting a fire with a fire steel

Fire lays

Making charcoal

Making char cloth

Carrying fire

Group bow drill


Water

Collecting water

Birch tapping

Bottle filter


Camp craft

Cordage

Giant grass rope

Knife safety

Sharpening a knife

Carving a butter knife

Leather tinder pouch


Wilderness survival

Making stretchers

Signal fire

Plants for first aid


Primitive skills

Slate arrow

Pine pitch glue

Atl atl and spear

Fat lamps

Nut lamps

Grass mat