Skills Share 2025

Join Red Seal Carpenter Lindsay from Seedlings Forest School!! Participants will learn how to engage children at various development stages with creative learning through woodwork. 

Participants will learn how to use tools safely with children, the benefits of woodworking, and how to identify tools and materials that children can manage confidently, and experience using the tools and materials themselves.

Get ready to untangle your questions about knots with Steph from Seedlings Forest School! We’ll cover rope safety with children, learn basic knots and their uses, practice setting up tarps with adjustable and easy to untie knots, and share resources and games for teaching knots.

Join local artisan Nellie for a hands on experience creating a plant based ink from scratch. We will discuss the process, swatch a variety of colours on paper, and you will take home several dropper bottles of botanical inks to experiment with in your future artistic creations. 

Join Mel from Oro Medonte Forest School for an exciting combination of movement, storytelling, literacy, and self-regulation. Try a short kids yoga session featuring Eric Carl's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and learn more about implementing kids yoga as a Forest School practitioner. 

Coming together around a campfire, like meal-sharing, seems to connect us to some intrinsic human way of gathering… When we all bring something of ourselves, our own “spark,” we are able to create something wonderful and unique together in that shared space. 
Join Jennifer to gather up tinder and kindling from the Land to build collective fires while sharing collective discussion around sharing fire-building skills with youth.
Once our time together is complete, we will be left with functional campfires with which participants can sauté, roast, fry or reheat components of their brought food items for our Potluck Meal.”

Join PSFS’s own experienced educator Rose, to learn strategies and insights on how to bring together, strengthen and manage a community of learners in the forest.  Whether mixed aged groups, day programs and after school Rose will shared her tried and tested methods for group time, behaviour challenges and how a team of educators prepares and responds in the moment to ensure everyone enjoys and gets the most out their time at forest school.

Children and adults alike are fascinated by skulls and bones and animal furs. In this workshop join Diana to learn some techniques for collecting and cleaning skulls, skull identification and some of the amazing learning that can happen through skulls. If you have a skull to identify, bring it along!! We will also touch on skinning and hide tanning.

Join local artisan and shepherd Heather for a workshop that will focus on basic wet felting using soap, water & wool.  We will create colourful woollen beads of various sizes that can be made into whatever the children’s imagination leads to.

Maddie asks, beyond identification, who are these plants, rocks, animals, trees or fungi? How can we use our way of forming human-human relationship with the beyond-human world?

Maddie offers an introduction to understanding plants, trees, animals, rocks and fungi, with white pine as a focus, using connection, presence, senses, and intuition to create relationship with the non-human world.