If you was to run a weekend for around 200 children(13-17) with a bushcraft/ survival theme what sort of activities would you use?
Last years event was basically dump them in a field in groups of four to six; give them some plastic sheeting and bamboo canes for their shelter. Some wood for a fire and some vegetables with a pot to cook them in. Within the field staff ran challenges like spiders web and other team games to earn tokens for extra fire wood, food etc. Not really very bushcrafty.
So how would you do things differently?
It looks like I might have the chance to run the event this year and am trying to sort out what activities to use. Each activity needs to be quite short in time as to get all the groups through plus most of the staff wont be to bushcrafty. Friction fire lighting always goes down well. Possibly archery/ atlatl throwing if I have enough space. I was thinking of maybe instead of making them cook individually I might do a big pit cooker.
What do you think? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Last years event was basically dump them in a field in groups of four to six; give them some plastic sheeting and bamboo canes for their shelter. Some wood for a fire and some vegetables with a pot to cook them in. Within the field staff ran challenges like spiders web and other team games to earn tokens for extra fire wood, food etc. Not really very bushcrafty.
So how would you do things differently?
It looks like I might have the chance to run the event this year and am trying to sort out what activities to use. Each activity needs to be quite short in time as to get all the groups through plus most of the staff wont be to bushcrafty. Friction fire lighting always goes down well. Possibly archery/ atlatl throwing if I have enough space. I was thinking of maybe instead of making them cook individually I might do a big pit cooker.
What do you think? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.