Off-Grid and Wilderness Survival for Kids: How to Build a Fire, Perform First Aid, Build Shelter, Find Water, and Gain All the Skills You Need to Be Safe and Have Fun in the Wild

Most kids today can find their way around a phone faster than the woods behind the house.

You’d like them outside more. But when you get them there, they’re bored in ten minutes, or nervous, or asking to go back in. And if you’re honest, you’re not sure you could show them how to build a fire or find the trail again without your phone either.

Off-Grid and Wilderness Survival for Kids gives you both something real to do out there.

It teaches the old outdoor skills one step at a time: fire, shelter, water, knots, weather, navigation, tracking, and first aid. It’s written for kids to read and for parents to follow along, with no survival experience needed. More than 40 QR codes open video demonstrations, so you can watch a knot tied or a shelter built before you try it together. Every chapter ends with an Adventure Hack, a “Did You Know?” section, and a quiz. A companion quick-reference guide, The Wild Explorer’s Guidebook, comes with it.

The book is plain about safety. Fire, plants, and water each come with clear rules, and every activity is done with a grown-up. The goal is a kid who knows what to do, and what not to do.

What’s inside:

• Building a fire three ways, and putting it out completely
• Building a sturdy shelter from branches, leaves, and what’s on the ground
• Finding water, and three ways to make it safe to drink
• First aid for scrapes, stings, sprains, and nosebleeds
• Tick checks and Lyme disease safety, new in this edition
• Five essential knots, and what each one is good for
• Reading the weather from clouds, wind, and animals
• Finding direction with a shadow compass and the night sky
• Telling edible plants from poisonous ones, and why you never eat anything without an adult
• Reading animal tracks and signs, plus real-life scenarios and quizzes to check what stuck

The skills matter, but what kids bring home is the confidence. A child who has built a shelter that kept the rain off, or found the way back to the trail, stands a little differently afterward. That carries over into school, friendships, and the next hard thing.

Get this book, pick a Saturday, and start with the first chapter together. Your kids will remember the first fire they build.