{"id":15728,"date":"2016-08-27T13:16:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kidscraftroom.com\/?p=15728"},"modified":"2023-08-05T14:44:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T13:44:42","slug":"coastal-foraging-for-food-survival-skills-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidscraftroom.com\/coastal-foraging-for-food-survival-skills-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Foraging For Food-Survival Skills For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent seaside holiday gave me the perfect opportunity to introduce my kids to coastal foraging for food<\/strong>. As an introduction to seaside edibles we stuck to learning to identify, gather and cook limpets and winkles. \u00a0We all had a blast and it was certainly a meal we won\u2019t forget! Do you fancy giving it a try?<\/p>\n

\"Coastal<\/p>\n

Regular readers will know that my kids are LOVING learning survival skills. As they\u2019ve already mastered fire making<\/a>\u00a0with a flint fire striker<\/a> and\u00a0I wanted to challenge them a step further to actually forage for their own wild food and then cook it. We have a fabulous Food For Free Book which makes identifying wild edibles really easy , it\u2019s pocket sized and really simple for the kids to use.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s always something very satisfying about foraging for food. We\u2019ve all been blackberry picking and enjoyed getting outside and connecting with nature haven\u2019t we? We made some fabulous no cook blackberry play dough<\/a> with ours.<\/p>\n

Coastal foraging for food was the next step for us and an exciting survival skills challenge that my kids loved. The thrill of food for free and the idea that they could survive in the wild proved to be so appealing!<\/p>\n

\"Coastal<\/p>\n

Coastal Foraging For Food \u2013 Kids Survival Challenge<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are loads of different seashore edibles both plants and animals that can be foraged for free but as a starter I set my kids the challenge of finding and cooking limpets and winkles.<\/p>\n

I chose limpets and winkles because they are both easy to identify with the help of our Food For Free book<\/a> and I knew they were in abundance on the beach we were visiting on the Yorkshire Coast.<\/p>\n

Once the tide was out we set off across the freshly exposed rocks and my kids quickly found what they were looking for!<\/p>\n

\"Winkles-<\/p>\n

Winkles are often found in large groups and are really easy to just pluck from the rocks by hand.<\/p>\n

\"winkles-Coastal<\/p>\n

Limpets are easy to spot but far trickier to get off the rocks. They suction themselves to the rocks really tightly if they feel the vibrations of you approaching so it\u2019s good to creep up if you can! My kids found the idea of stalking a limpet hilarious!<\/p>\n

You can lever limpets from the rocks with a knife but I didn\u2019t want my kids scrambling about on wet rocks with a knife in their hands so we went for the sharp tap on the side of the shell with a rock option.<\/p>\n

\"limpets-Coastal<\/p>\n

Coastal Foraging \u2013 How To Cook Limpets And Winkles<\/span><\/h2>\n

To help the kids succeed with their coastal foraging survival challenge we took a few supplies with us.<\/p>\n