BUSHCRAFT EXPERIENCES
Forest Friends Bushcraft aims to offer engaging, practical, and educational bushcraft, survival, and wilderness living skills, making outdoor adventures even more enjoyable. Courses can be fully customised to your preferences, ensuring a fun and unique learning experience.
Environmental Issues & Bushcraft Lessons
for Schools, Scouts & Youth Groups
1 hour (or more depending on group size)
Teaching children about the environment and bushcraft cultivates a strong bond with nature and imparts vital survival skills. Through hands-on experiences like shelter-building and basic fire lighting, they learn resourcefulness, resilience, and respect for the environment. This fosters confidence, self-reliance, and a lifelong appreciation for nature's wonders, nurturing stewardship for their planet and teamwork.
Lesson Includes:
• Warm-up activity and get to know you.
• Bespoke lessons can be designed around your class curriculum. Examples of lessons I offer include; Habitat Loss, Shelter Building, Fire Lighting Skills, Life Around Us, Pond Dipping, Life Beneath Our Feet (Mini Beast Safari), Life Cycles, Primitive Structures, Sensory Experiences and many more!
• All children receive a certificate of achievement.
Private Groups
for Adults, Families, Parties & Events
1 hour to a 1 day - All group sizes welcome
Learning bushcraft skills offers practical outdoor knowledge and fosters a deeper connection with nature. Mastering techniques like fire-building and shelter construction enhances self-sufficiency and confidence outdoors. It also promotes problem-solving abilities, resilience, and mental well-being, providing a rejuvenating escape from modern life's stresses. Overall, bushcraft enriches lives with valuable survival skills and a profound appreciation for the natural world.
Sessions can be fully catered to your requirements. I have a variety of planned lessons that you can chose from or tailor to your group size and available time.
Skills & Lessons Available
My wealth of experience covers a range of environmental topics, which can be tailored to your needs, providing a one-to-one experience in a welcoming and friendly atmosphere.
Fire Lighting
Try out various fire lighting methods and learn how to start and manage a fire safely.
Plant Identification
Learn to identify common UK woodland plants and their uses.
Survival Skills
Practice building woodland shelters and develop your survival skills.
Animal Tracking
Discover how to look for tracks, droppings, gnawings, and other signs of wildlife presence.
Navigation
Practice outdoor navigation
using a map and compass.
Camoflague & Concealment
Learn how to make effective camouflage gear using simple materials around you.
Aquatic Identification
Collect samples and identify the invertebrates and plants in the pond.
Bird Song
Train your ears to identify the mnemonics and rhymes of common bird calls.
Water Purification
Understand the risks, contaminants and how to remove them to avoid dehydration.
Gardening Skills
Learn how to grow seedlings and look after plants.
Noises at Night
Identify the the sounds of common nocturnal mammals.
Environmental Games
Learn about environmental issues with fun group parachute games.
Clay Moulding
Get your hands dirty and imprint leaves into a clay mould.
Sticky Window Art
Create beautiful art by sticking leaves and flowers to a sticky window frame.
Bespoke Lesson
If you can't find the lesson you want, we can create one just for you!