Outdoor Skills for Kids. Confidence Through Action.
Danger Done Right.
Danger Done Right.
A lightly competitive, team-based outdoor challenge for kids in grades 1-4 who love the outdoors - Fire & Knives alumni and first-timers alike.
⛺️ Drop-off optional
Families welcome to stay for the opening & closing ceremonies - both are worth seeing. Beautiful trails on-site if you want to explore while the games run.
💵 $50 / participant - Drop-off optional - Includes lunch, t-shirt, s'mores & awards
Register Now →Rising anxiety, decreased independence, and over-protection are creating a generation unprepared for real-world challenges.
Expert-led, age-appropriate risk-taking activities that build confidence, skills, and resilience in a safe environment.
Kids who are confident, capable, and connected to the real world - ready to face life's challenges with courage.
Secure your spot for the inaugural Fire & Knives Games.
per participant -- includes t-shirt, lunch, s'mores & awards
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View full event details →We believe in kids.
Their natural curiosity is the spark that feeds the fire. They don't need hand-holding - just a little guidance, a safe circle, and the chance to take a risk and see the rewards.
Fire & Knives exists to return kids to the natural world: dirt under their nails, tools in their hands, pride in their eyes. To give them adventure with consequence, responsibility with freedom, and joy with just enough danger.
We channel the spirit of the cool uncle - the one who takes you camping, hands you the real knife, and says, \u201CI'll show you how to use it right.\u201D The one who shepherds curiosity into skill, and awe into respect.
Your kids are in good hands. They'll learn to lead, to respect the flame, to trust themselves and their team. We teach resilience, grit, and courage - the kind you can't download, only earn.
Never before has the need been so great for kids to simply be kids. To roam, to try, to fail, to try again - guided, not shielded.
We believe in calculated risks that challenge children within safe boundaries, fostering genuine confidence and resilience.
We're looking for skilled, confident outdoor educators
Teach outdoor skills 3 days/week. Confident with fire, knives, group management.
Support lead instructor, manage small groups, build skills with kids.
Lead winter program focused on cold-weather skills and bushcraft.
Support Andover program, work with ages 5-9.
Curriculum-focused role for designing lessons, testing new skills, scaling programs.
For college students interested in outdoor ed, early childhood, bushcraft.
These are the thinkers who shaped Fire & Knives - authors who saw the crisis coming:
too little freedom, too much fear, not enough nature.
Their work inspires our mission to give kids real tools, real challenge, and confidence you can't download.
Real outdoor skills - then a treasure hunt that uses them.
Kids learn age-appropriate outdoor skills from trained Fire & Knives instructors, then work together to complete a guided treasure hunt using what they just learned.
Structured. Adventurous. Confidence-building.
No screens. No bounce houses.
1.5 hours - Ages 5-9 - Year-round - Greater Boston
Short, hands-on stations where kids learn:
All instruction is supervised, age-appropriate, and designed for success.
Using those same skills, the group works together to solve clues, navigate the area, and find the final treasure.
Everyone participates. No spectators. No eliminations.
Less party. More story.
Stay up to date on our progress! Lots of events coming - stay in the know.
A behind-the-scenes journal of building Fire & Knives - a kids' outdoor skills program teaching courage, safety, and adventure - told with sparks of story, strategy, and smoke.
