Knife Safety

This activity is about teaching you respect and self confidence when using a cutting tool: the woodsman's first tool.

A knife is a most important tool and should be treated with respect: to a woodsman it is their first tool. This session introduces you to how to use a knife safely when whittling or carving wood.

It is a step-by-step session, held in a quieter part of the wood, for smaller groups with a higher adult/child ratio (1:2) for a great level of supervision and support for those participating.

I will explain and demonstrate: -

• how to sit or kneel whilst working with a knife
• how to hold a knife for safe working
• how to cut and carve keeping the cutting edge and point away from your body: so as to maximise safety.
• why your knife should be sharp

I will go step-by-step to show how to safely make 4 basic cuts with a knife. By the end of the session each child will have made their own wooden tent peg to keep!

This activity suits ages 10+ years.

Time span: 1 hour (usually): depending on what you wish. It could be combined with another activity: e.g. Shelter Buiding or Atlatl darts, to make an activity of 1.5 hours.

Group size: up to 10 children max . (With 1 adult for every 2 children: excludes Green School staff .) This activity has to be limited in numbers, so I can give maximum support & supervision to each participant.

Cost
£100 for a 1 hour activity; £150 for a 1.5 hour activity if combined with Atlatl darts for instance.

Please contact me if you have a query regarding this session.

Sessions Times are available as follows: -

• Weekdays - After School: 4pm till before last light (BST only)
  
• Saturdays:10am, 1.00pm and 3.30pm (BST only);
  10am, 12pm and 2.30pm (Winter only)
  
• Sundays: Afternoons 1.00pm and 3.30pm (BST only),
  12pm and 2.30pm (Winter only)
• Parties at other times by arrangement.