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Excellent series T.Y.! Thanks for putting this together. I’ll be merging these into a single document and sending it to my kids who have kids. I’m sure they will enjoy it and be able to put some of these things into practice.
Fish Sticks. This was the most common way my kids and I fished and it’s a lot of fun! I spent three summers working, walking trails in the mountains six days a week. I carried 10′ of fishing line and two hooks in my wallet so I was always prepared to fish, always with a “fish stick.” I ate a lot of trout those summers. Some of my kids still talk about how much fun it was fishing with a stick, and I’m sure the memory has stuck in their minds so much better because we had to find the “perfect” stick, whittle it down just right, hook the line on, and then find some bait. It was hunting, problem solving, carving, knot tying, getting a meal, and then fire making, all rolled into one activity. Since we always traveled light (no frying pan), we cooked the fish right on the coals. If we could find a piece of old bailing wire on a fence somewhere, we’d make an eyelet for the tip of the pole and then tie the end of the string to the base of the pole where the handle was. Then we could pull on the line between the handle and the tip of the pole, thus giving us a little more control over things. Those were some good times and great memories. 🙂
Tracking. Believe it or not, one of my 4-year old granddaughters loves to analyze scat. She knows deer scat (nothing identifable in it but distinctive shape), skunk scat (lots of striped lower abdomens of wasps), owl (gray with lots of cool little bones), and raccoon scat (lots of whatver’s in season). Lots of critters leave scat on the deck and in the yard so we’d let them dry out for a few days, then slowly dissect them. She got pretty good at that too. Don’t hesitate to try this with the little ones.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! My daughter is the same as your granddaughter. She loves investigating whatever animals leave behind 🙂
Thanks for a great series.
It’s simple PUT YOUR DAMN PHONE DOWN AND PULL OUT YOUR EARBUDS!