Knot Another Challenge: Build your own Sedan Chair!
The Scouts have been learning how to tie six basic knots.
- Reef knot
- Bowline
- Clove Hitch
- Sheet Bend
- Round Turn and Two Half Hitches
- Timber Hitch
and how to tie two lashings,
- Square lashing
- Sheer lashing
To help reinforce some of this work, what better than to build a Sedan Chair and hold a competition. We know that when kids have to tie their own safety knots, it tends to focus the mind a little more. We thought the same might be true if they had to tie their own lashings and then be carried on the chair at speed!
I think the pictures say it all. (NB. Click on each image to get a larger picture)
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