Whittling

This Forest School trainee is whittling a stick; something that we all used to do as children but nowadays the skill has been lost and knives are classed as unsafe. Forest School trainees learn the basics of safety so that they can pass the skills onto children. It doesn't happen straight away though, most groups of children would need many sessions before they moved onto using knives. They would work their way up via handling sticks without any tools, then potato-peelers.
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