Wilderness Survival for Kids: A Complete Homeschool Curriculum Guide
- Samantha
- May 29
- 9 min read
Updated: 13 minutes ago
Empower your kids with knowledge this summer! Over the years, we have created an extensive collection of survival-themed units to help families prepare for uncertain times and to regain the vital skills and knowledge that have been lost over generations. Since summer is the perfect time to learn, review, and master these skills we have a HUGE SALE just for you!
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To make this collection accessible to as many families as possible, we are offering this entire Survival Bundle of 32 Units (a total value of $299) for just $25! This is your chance to get all of the units below for a fraction of the standard cost. Don't miss out on this opportunity to invest in your family’s preparedness and self-reliance while this offer lasts. ⏱️
*Please note: This is a digital curriculum collection and does not include books or manipulatives shown in advertising.
🧭 What You Will Master
Our Survival Bundle is a comprehensive guide to help you and your family build genuine self-reliance. By working through these units, your family will develop the critical competencies needed to thrive in any environment.
Here is the core skillset your children will master:
🚑 Emergency First Aid: Gain the vital, actionable knowledge needed to assess and manage medical emergencies in remote settings, keeping your family calm and safe when it matters most.
🔥 Firecraft Mastery: Learn the anatomy of a fire, site selection, safety protocols, and the technical art of starting and maintaining a flame in challenging conditions.
💧 Water Procurement: Gain the essential knowledge required to identify, source, and purify water to stay hydrated and healthy in the wilderness.
⛺ Wilderness Engineering: Move from theory to practice by learning how to construct durable, life-saving shelters that protect against the elements.
🗺️ Navigation & Topography: Develop the ability to read the land, understand topographical maps, and use a compass with confidence to find your way.
🐾 Wildlife Tracking: Hone your observational skills by learning to identify local fauna through footprints, patterns, and natural signs.
🍄 Foraging Basics: Learn to identify common edible plants and understand the principles of safe, responsible wild harvesting.
🔪 Whittling & Craftsmanship: Build hand-eye coordination, patience, and technical skill through traditional woodcraft and knife safety.
Plus so much more!
By turning these complex survival challenges into hands-on projects, you are giving your children the ultimate toolkit for confidence, grit, and long-term independence. 🛡️
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⛑️ Safety First: First Aid & Wildlife Protocols
Before heading into the wild, it is crucial to know how to stay safe. These units ensure your family is prepared for the unexpected.
🚑 Introduces safety basics through vibrant posters and flashcards. Just like the early learning pack, it covers the top 4 first aid skills, ambulance learning, creative prompts, and paramedic letter-writing. Price: $10.00 | Ages: All Ages
🩹 A safety-themed pack brimming with engaging activities! It features posters and flashcards on basic first aid, highlights the top 4 first aid skills to learn, and includes ambulance learning. It rounds out with creative thinking prompts and a heartwarming activity where kids write a letter to a paramedic. Price: $10.00 | Ages: 2-10
Wilderness Emergency Aid 🚑 A comprehensive resource designed to equip hikers, campers, and explorers with the essential knowledge needed to handle medical emergencies in remote settings. This unit focuses on preparedness, helping you move confidently into the wilderness knowing you have the skills to handle unexpected situations. Ages: All ages | Regular Price: $10.00
Nature 911 - Nature Signs & Survival 🌿 Help explorers respond to nature's emergencies with this set of 16 trail-ready cards! Designed to attach to a key ring for easy reference, this set covers tick checks and removal, poison ivy identification and treatment, and natural remedies using pine sap and activated charcoal. Ages: All Ages | Regular Price: $3
❄️ Highly practical! This is a set of 16 cards designed to be attached right to a key ring for easy trail reference. It covers tips for staying safe in winter, emergency preparedness, wilderness survival, and even how to build a car safety kit.
Price: $3.00 | Ages: All ages
🦌 Informational cards designed to teach kids both a deep respect for the natural world and the exact steps required to stay safe while exploring it.
Price: $7.00 | Ages: All Ages
🐻 A must-have for hiking in bear country! This unit teaches how to stay safe in bear territory with a themed booklist, Avoiding a Bear Encounter posters, safety gear posters, and flashcards. It goes deep into Black Bear and Grizzly behavior, habitat, anatomy, classification, and life cycles—and even includes bear-inspired recipes!
Price: $20.00 | Ages: All Ages
🏕️ The Core Essentials: Shelter, Water, Fire, and Emergency Kits
True survival hinges on the basics: hydration, protection from the elements, staying warm, and being prepared.
Lost in the Wild: A Nature Survival Adventure 🧭 This comprehensive, four-week learning pack turns survival training into an exciting educational journey! Designed to foster responsibility, self-reliance, and critical thinking, it equips students with essential wilderness skills. Week One covers survival priorities (the "Rule of Threes"), the S.T.O.P. method, hazard identification, and packing the 10 C's of Survival. Week Two dives into shelter site selection, building a Debris Hut, and fire safety and maintenance. Week Three focuses on finding and purifying water, basic fishing, and foraging techniques. Finally, Week Four wraps up with compass navigation, mapping, finding direction through natural design, and signaling for rescue. Ages: 6-14 | Regular Price: $8
🎒 This essential resource teaches families and students how to prepare for emergencies by assembling a 72-hour survival kit. Going beyond a simple checklist, it combines practical theory with hands-on activities to emphasize the "Rule of Threes" (Air, Shelter, Water, Food) and tackle immediate threats like exposure, hydration, and first aid.
Price: $5.00 | Ages: All Ages
Survival Skills Trail Guide Clip Cards 🧭 This printable, in-depth set of essential survival skills is designed to keep your family prepared for any emergency. Structured as a compact and portable Trail Guide, it is the ideal companion for outdoor education, hiking, and wilderness preparedness. Ages: All ages | Regular Price: $7.00
Explore survival skills with this informative unit featuring campfire construction and maintenance! Anatomy of fire, fire starting techniques and how-tos, fire starting documentary watching and notetaking, fire starters STEM, campfire safety learning, and even more are included in this wonderful unit! Price: $10.00 | Ages: All ages
⛺ Explores the fascinating art of shelter building. It includes anatomy posters of shelters, flashcards, and step-by-step how-tos on building lean-to and fallen tree shelters. It also covers crucial planning for both summer and winter construction.
Price: $10.00 | Ages: All ages
💧 Highlights the absolute necessity of water in nature. Kids will love the hands-on STEM activities, including building a hand-powered water pump, exploring safe-drinking water techniques, and learning transpiration water collection, alongside educational flashcards and posters. Price: $10.00 | Ages: All Ages
Embrace the Outdoors: Winter Survival ❄️ Prepare your explorers for the coldest months with this essential unit study! It teaches the foundational skills needed to stay safe, warm, and resilient while enjoying nature in winter conditions. Ages: 3-13 | Regular Price: $8.00
Reading Maps & Topography 🗺️ This interactive unit is a wonderful addition to any geography curriculum! It takes your explorers into a world of map making, map type discovery, compass reliance, topography, and continent learning. Ages: 3-13 | Regular Price: $10.00
Whittling Mini Unit 🪚 An introductory unit perfect for explorers eager to learn the art of whittling! It features informative posters, a curated booklist, a practice project on Inuit Soap Carving, and various whittling project ideas to help your student build confidence and skill in no time. Ages: 6-13 | Regular Price: $6.00
🎒 An engaging early learning pack that engages your youngest learner & weaves vital survival themes into foundational alphabet learning from A to Z. Price: $10.00 | Ages: 2-8
🍄 Nature’s Bounty: Foraging, Tracking & Campfire Cooking
Turn a simple hike into a thrilling scavenger hunt with these tracking and foraging guides, then cook up a feast!
🐾 A printable field guide for tracking and identifying footprints of large and small mammals, birds, and amphibians. Learn to spot the difference between Black Bear and Grizzly claws, tell a dog's wandering trail from a fox's direct register trot, and identify unique signs like a field mouse's tail drag line or a beaver's tail mark.
Price: $7.00 | Ages: All Ages
📓 An interactive journal for kids and adults to document discoveries! Includes observation pages for specific plants (Echinacea, wild strawberries, Chicken of the Woods), survival elements (water, heat, food, shelter), and shelter types (A-Frame, Tarp). It also features a Seasonal Survival Color Palette and inspiring quotes. Price: $5.00 | Ages: All Ages
Foraged Recipes Cookbook 🍽️ Unlock the delicious potential of the wilderness with the Foraged Recipes Cookbook by For The Love Of Homeschooling. This is more than just a cookbook—it's a guide to transforming your family's foraging finds into 25 fun and delicious, unique meals. Ages: All ages | Regular Price: $15.00
Let’s learn about foraging in this unit that includes book list, foraging poster, flashcards for wild blueberries, chamomile, dandelion & wild garlic, Teacher’s Manual readings and activities for Day 13 of our Nature Signs & Survival Unit, student workbook activities for all age groups, and a bonus Cattail Art Project! Price: $8.00 | Ages: All Ages
🍄 A safe, educational dive into foraging wild mushrooms while learning which poisonous varieties to avoid. Includes a book list, identification posters, an original "Exploring Puffballs" game, information cards, and student notebook activities.
Price: $8.00 | Ages: All Ages
Wild Edible & Medicinal Botanical Cards 🌿 The Botanicals: Wild Edible & Medicinal Cards is an educational and reference tool designed for those interested in foraging and herbalism, providing detailed information on over 20 common wild plants. Ages: All ages | Regular Price: $7.00
Wild Edible & Medicinal Fungi Cards 🍄 An educational and portable reference guide designed for students, foragers, and homeschoolers interested in identifying and learning about the common edible and medicinal mushrooms found in the wild. Ages: All ages | Regular Price: $7.00
Who says foraging is just for the spring and summer months? This unique unit features activities that help your family identify plants that can be safely foraged even when there is snow on the ground, making it a perfect addition to your cold-weather nature studies. Price: $8.00 | Ages: 5-14
🌪️ Weathering the Storm: Natural Disasters
Empower your children with knowledge about extreme weather events and how to prepare for them safely.
🌋 An educational unit focused entirely on survival learning surrounding extreme heat events. It explores the science and safety protocols for droughts, extreme heat waves, and even volcanoes, ensuring your kids understand both the geological concepts and the emergency preparedness needed. Ages: 5-14 | Regular Price: $15.00
🌊 This unit details critical survival learning and emergency preparedness for powerful, water-related natural disasters. Students will dive into the science behind massive events such as tsunamis and hurricanes, learning how to stay safe and aware. Ages: 5-14 | Regular Price: $15.00
Natural Disasters: Winter 🌨️ A dedicated unit for survival learning during extreme winter weather. It covers the science and safety procedures for severe winter storms, blizzards, and avalanches, making it an essential study for families living in or traveling to snowy climates. Ages: 5-14 | Regular Price: $15.00
📚 Inspiring Tales: Biographies & Heroic Stories
Nothing brings survival skills to life quite like the true stories of those who braved the elements and survived against all odds.
🐕 A brilliant five-day, multi-subject study to accompany any book about Balto and the 1925 Serum Run to Nome. It includes geography mapping of the 675-mile route, a sled dog science/insulation experiment, character analysis, comic strip design, and a recipe for Arctic Balto Bites! Price: $6.00 | Ages: 5-12
Ernest Shackleton Biography 🚢 An in-depth, fascinating study of the legendary polar explorer, Ernest Shackleton. It features a detailed historical timeline, Venn diagram activities, acrostic poem creation, and creative writing prompts. It also includes rich Antarctica-focused learning, diving into the native birds, mammals, and mapping of the icy continent. Ages: 5-14 | Regular Price: $10
🧗♂️ A comprehensive educational pack designed to explore the life, wild adventures, and resilient mindset of modern survivalist Edward "Bear" Grylls. It is an excellent way to inspire students with contemporary stories of grit, problem-solving, and wilderness exploration. Ages: 5-14 | Regular Price: $10
📖 An inspiring and comprehensive educational resource that collects 10 incredible, true stories of real-life heroism and survival. It is perfect for reading aloud together, prompting thoughtful discussions about courage, quick thinking, and human endurance in the face of nature's biggest challenges. Ages: 6-13 | Regular Price: $10.00
🌲 The Ultimate Guide to Kids' Survival Skills for Your Homeschool
From mastering fundamental first aid to understanding the science behind safe drinking water, these units are designed to put vital life skills right at your children's fingertips. Let us know what survival skill you are most excited to learn in the comments below!
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