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Description

Teach some knots, attach to a board and let the young people take it home to remind them how to tie the knots.

Resources

Garden canes
Rope (thin)
String
Cardboard
Glue
A5 board 15 x 21cm (e.g. white foam board)
Cord (e.g. 550 Para cord) in various lengths:

Knots
- Reef knot 2 x 13cm lengths in different colours
- Figure of Eight: 1 x 19cm length

Bends
- Sheet bend 1 x 12cm length, 1 x 14 cm length in different colours
- Fisherman's bend: 2 x 14 cm length in different colours

Hitches
- Clove hitch 1 x 19cm length
- Round turn and two half hitches 1 x 23cm length
- Sticks 13cm long (e.g. twigs from the garden).

Instructions

Teach the young people a knot, then tie it with the chosen cord.

Knots (tied in rope)
- Reef knot: use the two colours of cord the show the form of the knot - https://www.animatedknots.com/square-knot
- Extension: Figure of Eight: use one colour of cord - https://www.animatedknots.com/figure-8-knot

Bends (connecting two ropes)
- Sheet bend: make the loop with the shorter length, then tie the knot with the longer piece - https://www.animatedknots.com/sheet-bend-knot
- Extension: Fisherman's bend: join to ropes

Hitches (attaching to post)
Tie both of these around the stick, one at either end.
- Clove hitch - https://www.animatedknots.com/clove-hitch-knot-rope-end
- Round turn and two half hitches - https://www.animatedknots.com/round-turn-two-half-hitches-knot

When the knots have been tied attach them to the board (a hot glue gun it dries quickly)
You could either do this with a small group doing each knot in turn, or rotate around bases doing a knot at each.

Tags

• #knots
• Basic Nautical Skills: Knots

Badge Links

• Pioneer - Three knots