Outdoor skills for kids

Grades K–5

An enrichment program where kids build real outdoor skills in small groups, with close guidance, and discover how capable they are.

What kids learn

Real skills, taught in the right order.

Fire safety and fire making
Safe carving and tool skills
Shelter building
Knots
Plant identification
Outdoor cooking
Navigation
Water
Teamwork

Yes, that means children make fire with a ferro rod and carve with a fixed-blade, rounded-tip knife. Every skill is sequenced: kids first learn safety and how to use a tool, then move on to the next stage, and nobody touches a tool until they have shown they are ready for it.

A session

1Arrival and a warm-up game.
2Opening circle and the safety code.
3A short introduction to the day's skill.
4Hands-on practice, with an instructor within reach.
5A team challenge.
6Closing circle, skill cards and the field journal.

Three kids study a map together in the woods.

Small hands carve a stick with a fixed-blade knife, shavings curling off the wood.

For your school

How it works, practically.

Format: After-school enrichment. Vacation weeks and summer programming on request.
Term: Six to eight week blocks, once a week.
Session: Sixty to ninety minutes at the end of the school day.
Group: Up to fourteen children with two instructors, seven to one.
Grades: K through 5, grouped by grade where numbers allow.
Space: An outdoor area on or near campus. A playground works; woods are better. An indoor room for dangerous weather.
Weather: We run in weather. High wind, lightning or dangerous cold moves the class inside.
Enrollment and billing: You list the program in your enrichment catalog and enroll families. We invoice the school per enrolled child.
Paperwork: We bring the waiver, the certificate of insurance naming your school, and the parent communication. You provide the roster and one contact.
Where: Greater Boston today, and new schools as we expand.

How we keep it safe

Two background-checked instructors for every group of up to fourteen children. Every lead instructor is first aid and CPR certified. Skills are staged and gated. Every tool is counted out and counted back in, and nothing goes home. We are fully insured, and your school has the certificate before the first class.

What families say

+92

Net Promoter Score, from 65 families (nearly every family would recommend us to a friend)

“This was by far Ava's favorite enrichment course this year, and it had a genuinely meaningful impact on her.”

Ava's family

Let's talk

Request the program overview.

Tell us who you are and where. We reply with a one-page overview you can forward to your head of school or your director, and a time to talk.