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Can you teach by telling, or by doing, or both?
Here are some examples we thought you might enjoy -finger knitting, cordage making, making a saw horse and making a super simple shave horse.
Finger knitting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3BEgP5s9Pg
Nettle Cordage:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UGOEn_4g18
Saw Horse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFuTBNtaS6w
Shave horse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrwERnyXtqE
Do you have ideas for making that you would like to share? Photograph the result or film the lesson and share it with us.
Parents of students from Ashburton Primary School, Devon UK share their experiences of outdoors education from the Old Skills New Ways craft camp.
Read moreStudents from Year 5 Ashburton Primary School, Devon UK share their experiences of outdoors education from the Old Skills New Ways craft camp.
Read moreMichelle Horton - Secondary Design and Technology teacher from Coombeshead Academy, Newton Abbot, UK - shares her thoughts on educating outdoors and her experience of working in the Old Skills New Ways craft camp.
Read moreWe're helping children become an active part of their local community and helping to tackle climate change at the same time.
Learn about the details of our teaching programmes developed through our close partnerships with Devon schools.