Activities
Typical Day for Teens and Adults |
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| 9:00am | Breakfast and chores done |
| 9:00-12:00pm | Specific project with instructors |
| 12:00-1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00-3:00pm | Walk in the woods – Go Shopping! |
| 3:00-5:00pm | Work on projects |
| 5:00-5:30pm | Group discussion, Q & A and critique |
| 5:30-7:00pm | Supper |
| 7:00-9:00pm | Work on whatever |
| 9:00pm | Put tools away – No More Work! |
Typical Day for Kids |
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| 9:00am | Breakfast and chores done |
| 9:00-11:00am | Specific project with instructor |
| 11:00-12:00pm | Lunch |
| 12:00-3:00pm | Explore with counselor (in most cases this will include an instructor
or assistant to keep things connected to goals) • Bikes for transport • Collect treasures for projects • Build fort – Whatever! |
| 3:00-4:30pm | Work on projects |
| 4:30-5:30pm | Supper (before adults) |
| 5:30-7:00pm | Explore with counselors |
| 7:00-9:00pm | Work on projects |
| 9:00pm | Tools away – no more work! |
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Guided Techniques/Projects
Tools and Sharpening*
- Every student is required to bring their own sloyd knife, hook knife and sharpening supplies.
- Discuss tool use, care and responsibility
- Begin the long process of learning how to sharpen
- As part of the first birch bark class, everyone will make a sheath for their sloyd knife and make an essential item that relates to tool care and safety
- Students will also have the opportunity to make their own knife with a birch bark handle and a more elaborate sheath to go with it.
Carving
- Simple and useful spoon*
--fairly simple project with rapid returns and satisfaction
--begin to learn the nature of wood grain
--begin to learn tool use and technique
--can use your spoon the rest of the week - More complex spoons leading to simple cups. Begin to make use of branches, crooks and other unusual treasures
- Kolrosing – a traditional decoration technique using your sloyd knife
- Roosters – a carving technique making use of shavings left attached
- Fan Carving – splitting,
bending and twisting thin feathers of wood while leaving
them attached at one end - Carve a water hauling yoke out of aspen
- Shrink Boxes – hollow out a green log, fit a dry wood bottom and let the greenwood shrink around the bottom yielding a potentially water-tight box
- Chip carving
Spruce root digging, peeling, splitting and what you can do with it.
Fiber and Spinning – make cord from inner bark of aspen and willow and experiment with lots of other fibers as well
Bark weaving and folding – woven birch bark mats and baskets; folded aspen bark basket; knife sheath, birch bark boxes with wood bottoms and lids
Birch Bark Knife Handle
Make Birch Tar
Twig Figures/Doll-making
Containers – using intact cylinders of birch bark that remain after log has rotted. Make wood bottom and use it for a tool pail
Post and Rung Construction – using mostly dry wood from standing dead spruce. Make a stool, chair, ladder or a sculpture
Greenwood Construction
- Riving and shaping
- Mortise and tennon joinery
- Use shrinking to your advantage
- Steam bending
Make a Mallet
Make a Bow Drill
Lashing
Spruce Branch Buttons or Medallions
* Projects everyone will participate in because of its relevance to everything else we do
Every student is required to have their own sloyd knife, hook knife and sharpening supplies. Return students should already have these tools and guardians are not required to purchase their own tools. The complete kit cost is $60 and will be available on site.