Social Media

You can find me on the following social media platforms...

Muddy Faces

Forest School Training Company kit list

This useful Forest School kit list is divided into tool-work and non-tool-work items, depending on the age, competencies and size of your group and number of practitioners.

Outdoor Hub

Forest School Training Company

Website www.forestschooltraining.co.uk

Kit ideas for Forest School

Ensure you have got emergency bag, including First Aid kit, medical details, parental consent etc. Include nurture kit for cold weather / young children (hats, gloves, spare socks, fleeces, hand wipes, rubbish disposal bags). Water for drinking and a shelter sheet plus ropes is always good.

For non-tool work at Forest School

Exploring colours, using mud and enjoying mixing:

  • Containers to collect mud, leaves, berries in
  • Pestle and mortar or bowl and hazel sticks for grinding into paste
  • Brushes or elastic bands to make own brushes (sticks and moss/grass)
  • Canvas or card for painting on
  • Cotton and bashing sticks, to make get green
  • Small trowels to help with the digging

Enjoying bashing:

  • Small mallets
  • Wooden pegs ready for bashing
  • Twine or string to wind around the pegs

Games:

  • Rope (ex-climbing), may include strops/carabenas
  • Blindfolds or hats/scarves

General:

  • String
  • Trowels
  • Pens
  • Elastic bands
  • Spare forest friends
  • Small mallets

For tool work at Forest School:

  • Bow Saw – peg tooth and raker tooth
  • Sawing horse or wood and string to make one
  • Fixed blade knife for whittling (toasting stick, forest friend)
  • Mallet for bashing
  • Tarp for temporary shelter
  • Smaller tarps for mini dens
  • Sit-upons (cut up a roll mat)
  • Fire steels
  • Axe (for making pegs)

As to how many tools

– Suggest to start with two bow-saws (one peg toothed and one raker tooth). Only use one bow saw at a time, unless you feel confident with assisting staff and their competence with tools. Wouldn’t have more than two work stations.

– Suggest two fixed blade knives. No more than the number of competent staff and the space for working safely.

January 2010.

Return to top

Newsletter

Keep in touch

Register to receive our free email newsletter, full of outdoor inspiration, dates, deals and competitions.