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The art of tying knots is well known in small circles of fisherman, sailors, hikers, and paddlers, and can sometimes make little sense to the rest of us; like any craft or science, there's plenty of knot jargon to learn. On this page we’ll try to give you some ideas of ways to make it a little more fascinating. We’ll include some games and maybe a few nots (I mean knots) that you may knot (I mean not) have heard of before. When guiding your Pathfinders in making their knot boards
for the honors or class work requirements, try to come up with creative ways
to put together their boards. Make it look nice, something they could
be proud of. For example purchase inexpensive picture frames to be
used with or without the glass, to use as the knot board. Use a nice color
of mat board as the backing to adhere the knots to.
The size of frame needed would depend on the number
of knots needed to be tied. So what is a knot? A knot is any loop or entanglement of flexible material that is intentionally or unintentionally created; securing two ends of the same material. So when one of the Pathfinders accidentally (or on purpose) makes a mess of all your neatly stored ropes, they really have "tied" a knot. Rope Pyramid - This
is a friendly competition that can help your Pathfinders Here's several links that may help you learn more about knots.
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