Homeschool
The Homeschool Program is an extra curricular Primitive Skills educational experience. We run in eight week sessions, one in the Spring and one in the Fall. Students are invited to join us for one to three days a week as each day is a unique, stand alone experience. They learn traditional skills, play games, and practice nature awareness within the context of our supportive community environment.
Youth Homeschool Program
The Youth Homeschool Program, for ages 9-13, is a weekly program focusing on primitive and traditional skills, games, and immersion into nature. The skills we work on every year are diverse, with some core skills learned by everyone. Knife skills and safety, fire making and cordage form a foundation.
From there, we have worked on archery, atlatl, basketry, felting, spinning, friction fire, pottery, traps, slings, bolas, edible plants, primitive cooking, wildlife tracking, netting, earth pigments, bone and antler tools, cattail craft and more. Over the years students develop confidence, forge friendships, and find a connection to nature and the skills of our ancestors.
Teen Homeschool Program
The energy, questioning and growth of the teenage years are met perfectly by intensive earth skills with a strong social component, leadership opportunities and programs designed to expose teens to positive role models. The Laughing Coyote Project Teen Homeschool Program perfectly fills these needs.
This program meets one or two days per week for students ages 13-18. This is a profound program that will support your teen to forge a personal connection to the natural world and become a member of a close-knit modern tribe; learn to develop healthy personal relationships and work with strong role models; to become a vibrant member of a community passionate about living fully.
We believe in full process learning, from gathering raw materials to finished projects. We work on a variety of skills: knife skills and safety, fire making, archery, quickie bows and arrows, pottery, primitive traps, tracking, cordage, shelters, edible and medicinal plants, camouflage and stalking, throwing stick and primitive weapons, pitch and hide glue, coal-burned and gourd containers, bone tools, and whatever other skills our curiosity and enthusiasm uncover.