Blue Mountains Spring Holiday Bushcraft Adventure Program
Description
Come spend a spring day outdoors learning, making, playing and sharing skills together.
A family adventure
This is a family event, rather than a drop-off holiday program. Parents and carers stay and share the day with their children and remain responsible for their supervision.
The activities are especially suited to children around 6–13 years, but younger children and older siblings are very welcome. Some activities involve fire, carving tools and other practical skills, so children will participate according to their age, readiness and the supervision of their parent or carer.
We’ll begin each morning together around the fire, then move into a changing collection of hands-on activities throughout the day.
Depending on the day, these may include:
☘ Fire skills & fire starting
☘ Wood carving & simple bushcraft
☘ Clay and earth-based making
☘ Weaving, cordage & natural materials
☘ Animal tracking & learning to read signs in the landscape
☘ Plant, place & seasonal awareness
☘ Shelter building with natural materials
☘ Bush games, cooperative games & outdoor play
☘ Making, tinkering and practical survival skills
☘ A story shared together each day with harp music
There’ll be plenty of room for curiosity, conversation, experimenting and simply being outdoors together. You don’t need to already know anything about bushcraft or survival skills — come as you are.
We are equipped to go ahead in wet or hot weather - just bring suitable clothing!
BYO a packed lunch, water bottle and clothes for getting a little dirty.
LOCATION is in Katoomba. Exact details will be given on booking.
DATES ARE:
WEDNESDAY 30/9 11.00 - 2.30
FRIDAY 2/10 1.00 - 4.30
WEDNESDAY 7/10 11.00 - 2.30
FRIDAY 9/10 1.00 - 4.30
SATURDAY 10/10 11.00 - 2.30
Come for one day, two days, or join us across all three gatherings and let the skills build from one day to the next. We have discounted multi-day tickets available.
The Saturday session also gives families who work during the week a chance to come along.
COST:
$45 per child per day.
Discount multi-day passes (any available dates) per child:
2 days - $80
3 days - $110
4 days - $150
5 days - $175
Please get in touch if cost is a barrier. We’d love to make the days accessible for local families where possible.
Lineup
Eleanor Pilko
Eleanor has over a decade of experience across outdoor education, nature guiding, therapeutic practice, arts and community food growing. Her work brings together head, heart and hands through food growing, art and craft, dance and movement, bush skills, storytelling and shared time in relationship with place. She is interested in how these practices can support wellbeing, community connection and care for the living world.
Alasdair Taylor
Alasdair brings 25 years' experience as an environmental educator to this program. He has worked with thousands of children and adults from diverse backgrounds, both in his own business and for government agencies such as National Parks and National Trust NSW. Alasdair invites all who attend his programs to consider their experience as an adventure, where they will come away having learned something about nature - and themselves, that they never knew before!
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