Themed collection · For you, family or group

Wild Crafts

Make things from what nature offers: natural art, cordage, wooden tools, dyes, decorations and keepsakes.

52 Wilding activity guidesAll 52 for £12.00 · coming soon

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🃏 Includes a printable card set: every Wilding activity guide as an A6 card (four to an A4 sheet) to spread out, plan with or use for a lucky dip. See a sample

See the whole collection at once. Plan a programme, pick tonight’s activity, or let the lucky dip choose for you. Tap any card to open its Wilding activity guide.

Making a sycamore whistle

Making & using a bullroarer

Splitting wood along it’s grain with a knife in reversed grip

Making a candle holder

Making tongs

Making a kazoo

Thumb push & pivot techniques

Wrist push technique

Thumb pull technique

Reinforced pull technique

Carving with a crook knife

Making a wooden spoon

Making a butter spreader

Making a spatula

Plaiting fibres to make cordage

Making beads

Making a bracelet from natural cordage

Making a holly touchwood

Making a dream catcher

Making a hanging mobile

Making clay pots

Making a fat lamp

Making an incense bundle

Making an improvised bow saw

Shin pull technique

Making a depression with a sheath knife

Making a hole with a sheath knife

Cutting line with a sheath knife

Making a bow drill friction fire lighting set

Making a hand drill friction fire lighting set

Making an ember blower

Making a clothes peg

Making a wooden mallet

Splitting wood with a small camp axe & mallet

Carving with a small camp axe

Making a large peg

Making a chopping board

Sharpening & caring for a sheath knife

Sharpening & caring for a small camp axe

Sharpening & caring for a crook knife

Making an elder pencil

Making a paintbrush

Making natural ink

Making a feather quill pen

Making & using a palm drill

Making a crook knife case

Safety, and where the Wilding activity guides come from

Look after yourself and others. Outdoor activities carry real risks: fire, tools, water, weather, heights, plants, fungi, animals and getting lost. Every Wilding activity guide includes safety notes, but you are responsible for your own safety and for anyone in your care. Supervise children closely, get the landowner's permission, follow the Countryside Code, never eat anything you cannot identify with complete certainty, and only light fires where it is allowed and safe. If in doubt, leave it out.

With gratitude to the lineage. Wilding and its Practice Keys are inspired by the work of Jon Young and colleagues: the core routines of nature connection in the 8 Shields approach, also known as Coyote Mentoring, shared in Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature (Young, Haas & McGown). Many of the Wilding activity guides grew from those routines.

These ways of noticing and belonging are far older than any book. They grow from the knowledge of Indigenous and land-based peoples around the world, who have lived in close relationship with the land for thousands of years and have kept that knowledge alive, often in the face of great loss. Jon Young describes 8 Shields as built on patterns of nature connection he found in Indigenous cultures around the world, and on what his mentors taught him, including the teachings passed down through Tom Brown Jr. from Grandfather Stalking Wolf. Our own ancestors in these islands once knew the land in this way too.

I offer Wilding with deep respect and thanks to all of them. It does not claim or copy any culture's ceremonies or sacred practices. It is a UK way of carrying forward simple, shared human ways of paying attention, giving thanks and belonging to a place. — Jay