Chapter 8: Fix It

Lily: "Fix it together, with a grown-up close!"

Rangers love to mend and make: a torn sleeve, a wobbly cart, a sign for the water corner. Eli fixes carts and Amara mends clothes. Every fix is done with a grown-up, using safe things from camp.

What Rangers know

• Safe Scavenger rules. Rangers use only clean, safe things a grown-up has checked: cardboard, cloth scraps, string, tape, plastic bottles, bottle caps.
• Never take things from rubble, broken buildings or the ground outside camp. Never pick up unknown metal, wires or anything strange. See Chapter 4: stop, don't touch, go back, tell.
• Grown-up tools. Knives, scissors with points, saws, needles, glue guns, fire and batteries are a grown-up's job. Rangers hold, hand over and tidy up.
• Easy Ranger fixes:
• Tie a broken shoelace.
• Tape a torn map.
• Braid cloth strips into a soft cord.
• Make a picture sign.
• Decorate a clean bottle as your own water bottle.
• Balance a load. On a cart or bike, heavy things go low and in the middle, with both sides even.
• Wash hands after every fix.

• Fixing is sharing. Teach a friend what you learned, and trade skills fairly (Kenji draws, Amara mends).

• Helping hands for neighbours. With a grown-up, check on older or sick neighbours: carry water, fix a tent peg, bring a message (Chapter 15).

Ranger checklist

• ☐ I helped an older or sick neighbour with a grown-up.
• ☐ I use only things a grown-up has checked.
• ☐ I never take things from rubble or touch unknown metal.
• ☐ I hand tools to a grown-up; I don't use sharp ones.
• ☐ I did one easy fix with a grown-up.
• ☐ I washed my hands afterwards.

Earn your badge (Helping Hands, character · Power Out link)

Watch and learn

EP15 Road Treasure Hunt (#015) · Scavenger Hunt pilot, Glow Jar (#SH01; grown-up builds it, kids watch from one step back) · Planned: Bikes, Carts and Heavy Loads · Walking Staffs Are Tools · A Fair Trade · What Has Value?