Whether you are a wildlife lover who wants to showcase and strengthen their skills, or a complete newbie who just wants to start learning more, Northern Ireland is full of bushcraft experiences.
If you’re looking for something fun to do outdoors with kids, many experiences offer adult and children courses so they can start learning their skills early.
Here are eight bushcraft experiences that you should try throughout Northern Ireland.
5. Oakwood Bushcraft
Aimed at younger people, this bushcraft experience helps them engage with nature, learn new skills and become more independent. They learn how to overcome fears, develop new skills, and disciplines which can be transferred into areas of their everyday life. By taking them away from their comfortable environment, it enables them to learn how to exist and survive outdoors. Included in this experience are wild camping, fishing, canoeing, hiking, archery and boating. To find out more, go to https://oakwood-bushcraft.weeblysite.com/ Photo: pexels
6. Canoe Bushcraft at Strangford Lough
Canoe Bushcraft is a canoeing & survival skills experience. After learning the basics of canoeing, you then go on a journey through the Strangford Lough to showcase your new survival skills. All of the necessary equipment will be provided before undertaking a journey. On arrival you will trek through the forest to a clearing where you will learn different fire lighting techniques, how to build shelters (natural & man made). Enjoy some hot chocolate & s’mores over the fire before paddling back to base. To find out more, go to https://www.visitmournemountains.co.uk/things-to-do/strangford-lough-canoe-trail-p806151 Photo: pexels
7. Forest Living with Finnebrogue
Set in private woods just outside Downpatrick, the Finnebrogue School of Bushcraft offers beginner friendly workshops on outdoors skills. Suitable for ages 16+, this experience focuses on wild cooking. You will spend the day being guided through identifying and collecting seasonal wild vegetables, along with Designed to be both informative and relaxed, you will leave the woods feeling fresh faced and rejuvenated. To find out more, go to https://www.visitmournemountains.co.uk/things-to-do/finnebrogue-woods-gourmet-wild-food-and-foraging-p747481 Photo: pexels
8. Life Adventure Centre in Castlewellan
The Life Adventre Centre in Castlewellan provides participants with the chance to learn skills that are needed to thrive in the outdoors. From crafting fires and shelters, to using tools and making your own rope, you will learn everything that you need to know about life in the wild. Bushcraft experiences can be customised to suit your exact needs and interests. Suitable for all ages, group sizes and bushcraft levels. For more information, go to https://www.onegreatadventure.com/ Photo: pexels