Bush Kids

Woodland Shelter Building

Learn how to make your own woodland shelter! Make a shelter out of sticks and branches you find in the woods, and cover it with leaves or tarpaulin to keep the rain out!

Safe Knife Use

Safely introduce your children to using knives for woodcarving. This is a fantastic hobby, and a wonderful lesson that knives should be respected as a tool and not treated as a weapon. There will be a number of supervised classes in which your children can have a go!

Story Telling

Enchanting children (and adults!) with stories, songs and music. These will include history, mystery, and lessons about nature.

Each evening there will be a bedtime stories session with hot chocolate and cookies!

Firelighting

Have-a-go at lighting a fire with a firesteel. This simple technique is a perfect introduction to the world of fire-lighting and is always extremely popular with children!

There will also be opportunities to learn, and perhaps try, other forms of firelighting!

Tin Can 'Hobo' Stove Making

Justin and his dad ‘Mick the Hat’ will be running a session for kids to make their own stoves out of recycled tin cans.

During this 45 minute session, we will show the youngsters how to light and keep a fire going and how to craft and make a hobo stove using a pre-used catering sized tin can.

At the of end of this fun and friendly session the children will have their own stove which, under the supervision of their parents, they can then light and use in the evening to cook a sumptuous banquet for their parents – or at a minimum they can (get it?!) cook a sausage and beans supper!

The class will run twice a day, costs a nominal £2 (donated to charity), and will be available to book under ‘Wild Workshops’.

Children’s Lantern Making

Enchanted Woodland Walk by Candle Light

Join us at dusk with your candle lit lanterns ready for a magical walk in the woods where stories grow, before returning to base camp for story time, hot chocolate and cookies courtesy of our wonderful friends at Preppers Paradise.

This lovely event is held in conjunction with the Children’s Lantern Making Class With Prepper’s Paradise being staged on Sat 28th @ 0930 – 1030 and Sun 29th @ 0930 – 1030 – please see separate listing for booking details.

Meet at Prepper’s Paradise stand in the Main Arena @ 1930 as the sun starts to descend. We’ll have a number of helpers to guide your child on a mini adventure through the beautiful mixed woodlands before returning them safely to base where they will be reunited with friends and family (who we would ask to be waiting for them by the bar @ approximately 2100hrs).

As with the vast majority of our other kids activities, this is a free session, subject to a £1.50/child booking fee which we shall donate to our nominated charity SSAFA, and will be available to book under ‘Wild Workshops’.

Weave a Twoodle

Specially for kids (with a bit of help from their parents!), this is a short fun session for kids to have a go at weaving, creating a tapestry weaving doodle – the twoodle –  a tiny sampler to take away. It’s all about weaving in nature, about nature, so we’ll see what there is around us that inspires us for colour, and we might even include some bits of nature in the twoodle.

Maximum 10 children. Suitable for children aged 6 upwards (younger siblings are welcome and can join in). All children must be accompanied by an adult.

It is a free session which incurs a nominal booking fee of £1.50/child. This fee shall be donated to our nominated charity SSAFA, and will be available to book under ‘Wild Workshops’.

Children’s Water Safety Brief & Life Jacket Trial – Kids

Miniature Raft Building – Kids