The Guide to Woodworking with Kids: Craft Projects to Develop the Lifelong Skills of Young Makers
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Introduce children to the craft of woodworking and watch their executive function skills thrive.
The Guide to Woodworking with Kids is a culmination of craftsman Doug Stowe’s four-decade career in woodworking and nearly twenty years of working with students K-12 in his Wisdom of the Hands woodworking class at the Clear Spring School in his hometown of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This comprehensive guide offers step by step instruction for teachers, parents and grandparents to offer safe woodworking opportunities to their students and kiddos as a way of developing a wide range of valuable life-skills. Based in part on the philosophies of Froebel’s Kindergarten and Educational Sloyd, this book illustrates the importance of doing real, hands-on activities in school and at home that enable students to:
- Think things through for themselves
- Develop skill, originality and inventiveness
- Explore their own self-interests
- Plan, organize and execute meaningful work
- Prepare to profitably employ leisure time
- Be handy and resourceful
- Develop both character and intellect
- Create useful beauty to benefit family, community and self
The Guide to Woodworking with Kids is more than a woodworking book, it’s gives parents, grandparents and teachers the confidence, encouragement, and the insight needed to safely engage children in life-enhancing creative arts.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Blue Hills Press (9 July 2020) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 168 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1951217233 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1951217235 |
| Dimensions | 20.32 x 1.27 x 25.4 cm |
by pete moorhouse
I have no hesitation in recommending this book. The wealth of knowledge of the author shines through. This is a timely publication as it’s so important young people can access rich hands-on learning that woodwork offers. The book is packed full of advice and great ideas. It has an in-depth look at all the tools and lots of suggestions for projects. This is a book for hands, minds and hearts. It would be great if every child could get to experience working with wood.
by BNLP
Useful book to read if you’re going to start woodworking with kids. Some very useful tips and info for keeping kids safe when using sharp tools. Good ideas for some projects too.
by MR K.
The projects in this are VERY basic, I bought it for my 10yo son and it was not suitable at all. The projects in it look very messy, and are far to simple for him, he likes woodwork but found this very boring