Explore your wild space and look for natural materials that could be lit with a match or a spark.
Before involving children, complete your own thorough risk assessment of the fire area and agree clear boundaries and signals with the group, such as a stop word or a raised hand for silence.
Get to know your folding handsaw's parts, including the blade, handle, locking button, hanging loop, blade teeth, spine of the blade and sides of the blade.
Hold the workpiece in your non dominant hand and the knife in your dominant hand, with the cutting edge facing towards your dominant thumb, which should be braced firmly against the spine of the blade
Observe the area around the tree for hazards, particularly anything high up, before starting.
Finely chop the onion and garlic, and peel and dice the potatoes into small cubes.
Using a mortar and pestle, or a hand sized rock, grind up charcoal until it is fine.
Choose a straight hazel stick, ten to twelve centimetres long and thick enough to provide a good grip.
To make the bowl blank, split the length of wood in half along its length.
Set a fire mixed with suitable rocks on a platform of poles laid over your fire pit.