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2023

Format:	Book
Author:	Walmsley, Naomi, author.
Title:	Forest School handbook / Naomi Walmsley & Dan Westall.
Publisher, Date:	East Sussex : Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, 2023. ©2023
Description:	165 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:	Inspire kids to thrive outside with this collection of outdoor activities, crafts, bushcraft skills and nature-based play. Packed with ideas for children of all ages, this handy-sized book will be your essential guide for connecting with the natural world. Find out how to build a shelter from what you find around you, design a natural collage, tie useful knots, get to know a tree, light a fire, filter dirty water, build a shelter, make charcoal, go on a night walk, make a bug hotel, create a mini village, whittle a stick, and much more.
Target Audience Note:	0 Lexile.
Subjects:	Outdoor recreation for children. Outdoor life. Nature study.
Other Author:	Westall, Dan, author.
Notes:	Includes index.
Contents:	Introduction -- Playing in nature -- Nature awareness -- Outdoor crafts -- Useful knots -- Shelters and dens -- Fire -- Water -- Camp craft -- Wilderness survival -- Primitive skills -- Wild food -- Index.
ISBN:	9781784946654 1784946656
Other Number:	1346533454
System Availability:	1
# Local items:	1
Call Number:	796.508 Walmsle, N Forest S
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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 .

Table of Contents

	Introduction	6
	Playing in nature	8
	Nature awareness
	Minibeast hunting	13
	Muddy tracks	14
	Sit spot	15
	Flour trail tracker	16
	Observation stations	17
	Stalking walks	18
	Camouflage hands	20
	Get to know a tree	22
	Colour chart nature matching	24
	Night vision	25
	Night walk	26
	Outdoor crafts
	Nest building	29
	Bird feeder	30
	Goblin village and mini dens	32
	3D maps	33
	Playing with clay	34
	Leaf printing	36
	Nature weaving	38
	Natural collages and sculptures	40
	Leaf bunting	42
	Stick boats	44
	Leaf and flower plaques	46
	Things to do with conkers	48
	Useful knots
	Glossary of knot terms	51
	Slip knot	52
	Sheet bend	53
	Clove hitch	54
	Double half hitch	55
	Siberian hitch	56
	Timber hitch	58
	Prusik	60
	Canadian jam knot	61
	Slippery guy-line knot	62
	Square lashing	64
	Shear lashing	65
	Shelters and dens
	Tarp bender	67
	A-frame shelter	70
	Lean-to shelter	72
	Baker's tarp	75
	Fire
	Fire safety	79
	Sources of tinder	80
	Lighting a fire using a fire steel	82
	Fire lays	85
	Firewood	88
	Making charcoal	90
	Making char cloth	92
	Group bow drill	95
	Carrying fire	98
	Water
	Collecting water	101
	Birch tapping	102
	Bottle filter	104
	Camp craft
	Making cordage	107
	Giant grass rope	111
	Knife safety	114
	Sharpening a knife	116
	Carving a butter knife	119
	Wilderness survival
	Making stretchers	123
	Plants for wilderness first aid	126
	Signal fire	128
	Primitive skills
	Slate arrow	131
	Pine pitch glue	134
	Atl atl and spear	139
	Fat lamps	142
	Nut lamps	144
	Grass mat	145
	Making a coil pot	148
	Cave art and natural paint	150
	Wild food
	Foraging safely	153
	Plants to know	154
	Preparing nettles	155
	Nettle crisps	156
	Nettle smoothie	157
	Nettle energy balls	158
	Wild garlic and walnut pesto	159
	Ash breads	160
	Dandelion cookies	161
	Blackberry sorbet	162
	Toffee apples	163
	Index	164

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