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Tag: Carving

Fire Breathing Dragons

  • By Richard
  • March 7, 2017
  • 3 Comments

  I can’t remember where I first heard firesteels (Ferrocerium rods) described as ‘Dragon Sneezes’ but I always like the mental picture of baby dragons with colds surprising themselves with … Continue Reading →

15 Things To Make With Elder at Forest School

  • By Richard
  • January 11, 2017
  • 3 Comments

THE ELDER TREE I hold it needless to write any description of this, since every boy that plays with a pop-gun will not mistake another tree instead of elder: Culpepers … Continue Reading →

spiral gypsy flower

Make a Gypsy Flower Pony

  • By Richard
  • July 27, 2016
  • 5 Comments

                  This is a rudimentary jig that I made to ease the process of making Gypsy Flowers with a knife or shave … Continue Reading →

Mushrooms #2 – the minizine

  • By Richard
  • December 12, 2014
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Here is the follow up to last week’s stop motion mushroom carving film. It’s a book and its free to download (but it is very small and you have to … Continue Reading →

Make Room for the Mushrooms

  • By Richard
  • December 6, 2014
  • 9 Comments

  I’ve been making these little wooden mushrooms for quite a while now and they are a really good project to introduce people to whittling.I finally got round to setting up … Continue Reading →

Course Review by natureworkshops.co.uk

  • By Richard
  • July 2, 2012
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Jane and Jennie from Nature Workshops drove all the way up from the far end of Cornwall in May to attend a course called ‘Whittling Thingamajigs and Whatsits’ in the … Continue Reading →

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Whittling Hens and Roosters

  • By Richard
  • May 17, 2012
  • 1 Comment

On Monday, Tom B on the Forest Education Initiative facebook page asked for a bit of help with his growing stick and twig collection: Help! since becoming a FS practitioner … Continue Reading →

Kiwi Spoons bound for Oz

  • By Richard
  • December 14, 2011
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I was asked by a customer to make a couple of my kiwi spoons which are specially designed (by the kiwi marketing board of New Zealand) for the eating of … Continue Reading →

Vicky’s case of spoons

  • By Richard
  • October 27, 2011
  • 2 Comments

Vicky was a participant on a Forest School Training Course at the end of September and we discovered we shared a similar obsession for the shaping of green wood with … Continue Reading →

Spoon Carving Course 16th October

  • By Richard
  • September 22, 2011
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An Introduction to Spoon Carving. Sunday 16th October 10.00am to 4.00pm Learn how to safely use a minimum of hand tools to carve your own practical and beautiful kitchen utensils … Continue Reading →

Outdoor Education and Training

I enable staff and pupils to get the most from outdoor experiences. Through training adults, leading one-off sessions or running bespoke programmes, the genuine cross-curricular potential of learning outside the classroom can be unlocked. Promoting child-initiated learning is central to what I do, based on 20 years of teaching, management and training.

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