Building a Shelter
Lighting a Fire
The stalks of dead stinging-nettles make very good starter-kindling, and we have used them on this video. The kids did the fire-lighting here since I have been out with them since they were young and tried to encourage them to learn survival and camp-craft. They are all grown up now but will remember these things and find them useful in later life (or maybe sooner than later as things are today).
The next two videos feature a winter day on the South Downs where we did some survival training by putting up a shelter and lighting a fire. Here we used the stalks of dead stinging-nettles.
Winter Survival - 1
Winter Survival - 2
The site we used at the bottom of the South Downs was an area where someone had dumped two plastic garden chairs; not good for the environment but we used them to create a camp. This shows how so many things are thrown away but can be used for useful purposes.
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