Ultimate List of Prepper DIY Projects
DIY and prepper should be synonymous. We always love to figure out how to do things ourselves.
In general, I believe people should be more interested in learning how to do things for themselves. Even if you won’t be doing it all the time, simply trying to understand the concept and how things work by doing it yourself can be an eye opener, as well as get the creative juices flowing.
I’m sure this isn’t a complete list, but here are some ideas to get you started! Feel free to leave a comment below if you see anything missing.
Let me know your DIY project ideas in the comments below and I’ll add them to the list!
Here’s the ultimate list of prepper DIY projects
Water
- Rain Water
- Water Filter
- Swale for garden
- DIY water well
- Make your own olla
- Solar still
- Make your own electrolyte drink
Shelter
Food
- Homemade MRE
- Hardtack
- Pemmican
- Bannock
- Make your own backyard fish farming pond
- Make your own chicken coop
- Chicken water system
- Greenhouse
- Grow sprouts
- Grow microgreens
- Solar dehydrator
- Solar oven
- Plant propagation
- Save seeds
- How to dehydrate food
Hygiene
- Make your own bar soap
- Make your own shampoo bar
- Make your own lye
- Laundry
- Make your own castile soap
- DIY toothpaste
- Baby wipes
- Cleaning wipes
- Hand sanitizer
Paracord
Home
- Make an outhouse
- Setup solar system
- Natural cement
- DIY swamp cooler
- DIY wood mill
- Make a battery
- Make a bat habitat
- Make your own wind turbine
- Solar water heater
- Underground root cellar
- Underground bunker
- DIY wood stove
- Distiller
- Pallet DIY ideas
- Make a solar charger kit out of an altoid tin
- Here are some fun 5 gallon bucket DIYs
Personal
- Essential oils
- Learn to sew
- Learn to knit
- Snowshoes
- Make your own altoids kit
- Survival kit
- Important document folder
- Make a bug out bag
- Fix’n Wax
- Learn to water bath can
- How to pressure can
- DIY salve
- How to sterilize items
- How to make shoes
- How to make a hat
- Duct tape DIY ideas
Fire
- Buddy burner
- Rocket stove
- Self-igniting fire starter
- Candles
- Make your own wick
- Fire starters
- Make a fire pit
Hunting/Fishing/Shooting/Primitive
- PVC Bow
- Wood bow
- Flintknapping
- Make your own arrow
- Traps
- Snares
- Fishing net
- Make your own fishing lures
- Meat smoker
- How to cast bullets
- Make your own primers
- Reloading ammo
- Make a knife
- Primitive tools
- Primitive stone tools
- Primitive pottery
- How to basket weave
- Make natural cordage
- Make your own targets
- Blacksmithing
- Leather working
- Butchering animals
- Skinning and cleaning animals
- Find wild edibles
- Make your own arrow target
- Throwing knife target
- Make a sling shot
Let me know your prepper DIY project ideas in the comments below and I’ll add them to the list!
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Howdy! My name is Morgan I’ve been prepping for over 10 years and teach others to be prepared for emergencies and disasters. Learn more!
Home Security Idea- Recently had a security situation /of concern. Cant really afford the materials for fencing w/ my amt of road frontage. Then it occurred to me. I have this agave plant growing @ the base of my kitchen window(live in the Southern US.) It puts out a massive # of Pups/ it’s offspring, in season. Now, I’ve done practically nothing in regards to its care other than dig up & separate its Pups from the Mother plant since we moved here. It was 3.5-4 ft tall @ that point. It is now? More than 5.5-to -6 ft tall, and extremely prickly sharp! If spaced properly, it could easily grow together and provide the security I want & need… May also prove to be potential income??? Haven’t given it much thought @ this point beyond security. I have to wonder, if done as a group effort/arrangement w/ perks w/ friends & family(for those w/ road frontage- to prevent people frome stealing them) if planned & cared for properly, if their growth rate might actually be better??? The reading I’ve done suggests there’s a great many other uses for this plant.. besides Security/ live fencing( like mescale- tequila from its roots, a healthy sugar alternative, fiber for rope & creating paper, etc) Just a thought. At least that part of my problem is solved.
– Paige
Hi Paige,
Yes any time of prickly plant such as rose, cactus, blackberry, and even agave, can work great to plant around your home to help deter people.