This half term we are working on developing knot skills, to use in our woodlands as the year progresses. Over the first few weeks of term I will be introducing the children to techniques for hanking cord and ropes, the clove hitch knot (rollercoaster knot) and a square lashing.

If you find yourself at home and missing your Forest school session, here are some ways you can still join in…

Practise hanking ropes/ string/ headphones/ the cord for the hoover…

Here are two children demonstrating how to do it…

 

Click here to find out how to complete a square lashing

 

Have another go at a clove hitch knot…

Clove hitch knots can be created in two ways; to begin with we are looking at making a clove hitch by creating two loops in the string (as below) and passing them over a stick or pole. Later in the year we will introduce the wraparound method too…

How to start a clove hitch knot…

       Hanking ropes