Wild Camping with 8 + 5 Year Olds || Learning Bushcraft Survival Skills in the Woods

Finn, Matt and Ada from the Woodland Trimps YouTube channel. Yeah, and we're back in the woods camping It's been raining constantly for days, but we've got a little break in the weather. It's bright. It's sunny So we decided to chuck the stuff in the car. The kids are still on the Christmas holidays And so we're in the woods and we're gonna camp. We've got four hours or maximum four hours before it'll be pitch black So we've got a lot to do. Set the tent up, make the fire, curry for dinner. So right then kids, let's crack on So first job is tent and this is a new tent to us, the Helm Compact 3. Kids, we won't film this bit So do you want to one of you sort of do a before and after? No tent Tent. Ta-da! We have the Helm 3. Good stuff Ada. Right, that's already down to dirt there, isn't it? Wow, that's good placement there Ada Well, it's a cold night, isn't it Ada? It's winter Okay, right then. So we'll get a bed sorted now We need to process some firewood and the fact it's been so wet. What do we need to do Finn? We need to find a dead tree that's standing upright. Yeah, so it's got little as little water on it as possible Let's go and do that. So Finn, this is dead standing beach Okay, so it's near enough vertical It forks off quite low down so there's gonna be pretty damp in that region there These vertical sections the outer bit will be wet But the inner bit should be pretty dry all this bark is going to be really wet But that will soon burn off in the in the fire. So direction wise first of all, check the crown It hasn't really got a crown anymore Because it's long since what rotted away which means the top bit may be a little bit punky But which way you gonna fell it do you think? Okay, brilliant, so we're going to go down through that gap through there, okay Excellent. Perfect Okay Finish off that there Okay, and that is not a bad little notch there. Okay. Are you happy that it meets in both corners? You need to move right over here Ada right out the way of that tree just in case it doesn't go to plan This will probably break off because it's Soaring a little bit more Wow, what a shot perfect thin Get that and here look look here. We see Finn So you go into the stump you can see that was your face cut there That was the hinge and this was your back cut so you can see it attacked It is a bit it's not a straight back cut, but you'd worked it from both sides But you can see it didn't splinter like a fresh tree would it's just snapped, but that was excellent really good work Finn and there's the Remains of the tree Oh Ada. Are you asleep? You look like a little woodland fairy there chilling against the tree Lovely, right. Come on in got work to do Okay, yeah, let's put it on there then Maybe come around this side and do it from above now. Remember this is a pull saw so it cuts on the pull stroke Brilliant separated that one Fantastic. Right. Do you want to do a couple each? Want me to do a couple? You can do this side. Oh the thick side Love your style Finn Less cuts, isn't it? Do you want to do some? That's it. You just hear the saw behaves differently when you're doing it. Well What are you doing Ada? That's amazing Look at that. Finn's out of breath breathing heavily from chopping all that wood. We're lighting the fire tonight with fatwood So we're gonna go and harvest our own fatwood from over there from a downed pine. Okay, you happy here? So this Finn is what? What was this tree? It was a pine tree and you can see here. So this is where a branch came off Can you see that all the trunk rots away? But it leaves a centerpiece But particularly all the knuckles where the branches came off are left in situ and we've done a short on how to harvest fatwood So we'll put a link to that down below, but we're going to do that Here so we're going to scrape off this and we can see that right in there It's most likely going to be fatwood. Okay, so easy. It just pulls away doesn't it? It's another knuckle there But this is the one that we're after For the fatwood. Do you want the saw or the axe? Okay, right. So you've got a new axe to show everyone haven't you? This is Husqvarna's relatively new small hatchet Tiny little one. Finn's been using my normal sort of hatchet, which is also a Husqvarna one But it was just too too heavy for him So this little one is something you're now going to practice with but because it's lighter You've got to be even more careful with it. Okay, the key here is is axe safety Okay, so if you're if you were here and just swinging the axe miss that it's in you, isn't it? So what you're gonna have to do is stand side on and so if you missed there's nothing there, is there? Okay, and you're gonna hack down Into there and open that up That's it. That was a good one So again, you're swinging away from you, aren't you? So that's fine. If I miss. Yeah, exactly. So you got to really hit What I'll do is I'll put a little bit of pressure on here It's going it's going perfect Okay now sniff test Fatwood Stacks of fatwood this stump will be just fine. So into that position just trimming down Well, even if you can't do it first time you just got to practice haven't you That's it. Perfect. Okay, so we don't want to move too much that because that's the fatwood there, isn't it? Okay So just finish off the last little bit There we go, so you can really see the difference there between the orange fatwood and where it goes to much lower concentrated resin It's just essentially just normal wood. So that isn't fatwood. That is fatwood So hold like that There you go Hey Wow one shot rather than twist the axe You now keep the axe steady and move that and that will open up that you see There you go. Perfect And now split it So tap the tap the axe into there Perfect and then split break it open show strong you are Perfect sniff Great, and that is what we're gonna light our fire with in a bit. Okay, right. Let's go and find your sister We're almost ready to go. I think firewise If you enjoyed this video Hit that like button down below Then YouTube will promote this show and we'll watch our channel grow How are things here? Going well Wow So this is what you were doing while I was chatting to Rob We've got a pop down because we've got to do those test holes Where the ponds gonna be? You do because it's two levels down in the woodland, so I don't want to leave you up here on your own It's definitely not gonna fall on anything because that's quite big. Do you pick that up by yourself it? Yeah Wow Or what's that there Finn? Not candle fluff candle snuff fungus brilliant Come on Ada Look at this any ideas what they are Yeah It is lords and ladies was that a guess or was that do you know do you know how to tell by that leaf how It is but there's other stuff in the shape of a heart if you look at this Yeah, the veins don't go right to the edge They actually stop just short of the edge. That's a toxic plant That's the same plant in our last video had the berries So that was almost the end of its life cycle for last year. And this is this earliest was winter growth, isn't it? It's always one of the first plants poke up through the leaves right then. This is the new proposed area for the pond Okay, Finn, you've got loads of debris on your chin There you go. The previous area that we talked about in our last video was about 50 60 meters to the south of it But it had a couple of mature beach that we'd have had to bring down because it compromised the light now ponds need light And so this area this new proposed area has younger trees so we can take a few out to allow more light into the pond however we've got to do what we did on the last one and Test the ground because what we wouldn't want to do is fell the ring of trees and a couple of extra trees to allow more Light in and then start digging the pond and realize that it's it's really rocky underneath or we can't get the depth that we need Okay, so who's going to start digging the first test heart hole you dig it together. We bought two I know these spades are a bit big for you Ada, but at least we'll give it a go This is approximately going to be the middle of the pond so So go I need you now Get that dirt out of that hole. Just put it next to the hole Well Finn hasn't dug much of a hole has he Ada? See how heavy it is see August gets stuck to the way Don't chuck it too far away because what we're not going to do is leave these holes open You don't want someone walking past or an animal dog or whatever walking past and falling in it So we just test hole in it and then we'll just fill it back in Great stuff kids right So what we can do that's now 30 centimeters down. We can now use Ada. Ada. Can I borrow that? that He's not hitting anything. Is it? other than solid dirt We know that that's yeah So that's already How high do you reckon that is? It's got to be 50 60 centimeters and it's not hitting anything So this is the center of it. This will be the deepest part of the pond and we probably only want to take it to ideally 80 80 centimeters unless we've been really unlucky and hit the only soil area But I think the rest of it is gonna be okay. What do you think Finn deep enough? Okay, go for it right kids, I think that's enough I think we need to get back to the camp now Okay, yeah, do you want to start filling it in That's it. Tread it down a little bit and then add the next board a bit more on That's it. Very good There you go holes filled in for the moment leave no traces ever right then kids Let's get back up get that fire lit. Okay What are these mushrooms Finn? Scarlet Elf cups. Yeah, they are a little tiny one there So we can like put that onto there then perfect right excellent, right, so this is a fat wood we harvested earlier Okay, I'll do some shavings And this will take off like a tree. So yeah, we can see look at that resin there The material we're gonna be lighting it with was We have bought a little bit of kindling from home just because we sort of thought well, we knew the woods would be that damp But we want this flame to burn a little bit longer, don't we? We would like to give a big shout out to Lottie and Sebby because they have really been supporting our channel and watching all of our Videos this fires for you Lottie and Sebby. Right then Finn. So we've harvested the fat wood from earlier So over to you to light that Okay, so this is slightly damp Okay, still got plenty there But what you don't want to do is drive the knife down and squash the fat wood. Okay, let's have another go That's better, there you go go go go excellent work How you doing, have you seen the sunset? Look over there It is isn't it? What are we having for tea? Chicken curry exactly. So let's start prepping for that. Okay Curry and we've even got It's not a bottle what's that a can it's curry in a can Yeah, so it's all tikka masala our favorite months and on and we've got That's for the rice, okay, and we're gonna have to just try and drape the naan Yes We get the butter and then we it always needs to kind of melt and then we put like all of the ingredients on Yep, we do Good chopping dad. Well, thank you. Yeah, I appreciate the compliment I just went like this daddy. What do you do? Who to All the camera I see Brilliant where's it thumbs up cuz you have a good time Okay, we'll just move it to one side now good stuff in so these are These my beautiful Just after we told it to what do you just sort of whisper a magic spell or something did you Can you go on Yeah instance Oh Smells better than a wet poo would smell like though, wouldn't it? All right thin Wet poo was efficient information. Okay Karina can What's tikka masala, I think this is gonna the whole lids gonna come up there off this bad boy Slop it out Don't know but we've got to sort the rice out now do we think one or two rice Got quite big no, I'm thinking one Little bit of water Which steams it almost so the So the water will turn to steam with the heat You're gonna mix it in your mouth aren't you in your bowl Gonna be flame-grilled Why you got water on it just to make it like No, just make it Steams it again I think this I think this might be my favorite dinner. I've ever had in the woods. I think it might be Oh Ada Chicken curry in the woods with crispy naan What's the verdict Cinnamon How's jelly You just eat it with a spoon Ada, okay Well, that's all done for today and we will see you tomorrow morning see ya bye Good morning. Good morning How you doing Feeling already on the iPad. Hey, did you sleep? Well? It's not raining at the moment, but we've got a couple of hours where it might be light rain So we've got to get this tent all squared away. So get dressed and then we'll get all this packed away Well, it's next morning and as you can hear from the noise on the top, it's raining Saying that though it is a little bit. It's blue that way and it's gray that way So it depends which way the weather's moving. It is forecast to rain this morning So we knew it was going to come which is why we've packed everything away And all we've got to do now is make breakfast. And so what is for breakfast? Pancakes, which is gonna make from scratch. So the fires away already because it rained last night. It got wet I thought there's no point trying to restart that so we've got the bush box and that's what we're gonna cook the pancakes on all The dry ingredients are already mixed So we've just got add the wet ones and then mix it all together and then get it cooking So the plan is first job bush box. Okay. So what we think in fat wood fat wood We've got a little bit of birch bark left So we'll get the bush box go in and bring you back That that sort of stuff is perfect then That'll catch This is wetter stuff And we would ideally use we should have put the fat wood last night by the fire And the trouble is this this birch bark is paper birch bark, so it's not as It's not as good as the full on But you've batten this wood really well Finn it's tiny So we need some melted butter to go into the mix, can you hold that a second Ada? Yes, that's the stuff that's going in the mix and the other butter is what we're gonna cook Pancakes with okay, put that on there. No, we don't want it to burn We just want to get it melted in the meantime Right, can you see that's lovely and melted there well on the way One egg now when you mix it lightly, okay There goes the Melted butter the dry mix goes in there. So I'm gonna put a bit in Can you keep it going because that butter is gonna start to solidify with me. So just gently stir it Yeah Now I'm gonna put a bit of milk in Can you pour a bit of milk in there just a little bit? Try and keep it in the bowl Yeah This is starting to look a lot like pancake batter There we go, that's what that's looking like so he's supposed to be a thick mix Apparently lumps of little lumps of flour and stuff in there It's flat and it's cakey and it's in a pan so that that's pretty pan cakey, isn't it really if you think about it Hey do your pancakes ready? That is not Cool for a second while I get things started a day Pretty good honey over that Yeah What's the verdict then very good you tried any you just eating everything except the pancake yet That is a breakfast of champions do you think Yeah, well, yeah equally That's the question I'm not really put much thought into before him Depends whether you're you're popping hair will grow back Always gonna grow back. I Don't know this is a hypothetical thing Head you've probably destroyed all the hair follicles. So no your hair probably won't go back Not destroyed the hair roots, I think you'll be fine. I don't know why we put so much effort into this Have you got any crazy questions to ask Ada? We need to get some proper camping cutlery your old baby plastic stuff Ada is Okay, then so that's us done left. No traces ever Fire was there tent was there. 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