If you want to learn how to light a fire as a survival method you could always try a bow drill! I tried this once at a festival workshop.

This can be a match, lighter, or tinder sticks. You need five things before you start a fire: Ignition Always check the rules on the festival website before you go. Not many festivals allow open fires, but most will allow you to make one in a fire pit. Of course close supervision is still necessary but leaving a child ‘in charge’ of keeping the fire going can be great for their confidence too. Managing it and helping keeping it lit gives them a respect for fire.

They appreciate the responsibility at being allowed to help light the fire. My children enjoy collecting tinder, kindling and firewood among the trees. In this one I have provided a simple step by step guide to building and lighting one.īuilding a fire is an essential survival skill and is great fun for kids too. In my previous post I went through the equipment that is useful to have to cook on a fire. Children love to toast marshmallows and poke the flames with sticks, and it helps them to learn about fire safety. Jacket potatoes taste amazing when cooked in a real wood fire. One of my favourite things about festivals is sitting round a campfire on a cold evening watching the flames.

Rules of survival tinder