The Guide to Woodworking with Kids: Craft Projects to Develop the Lifelong Skills of Young Makers

Age range 6 to 14. 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 twenty years of working with K-12 students in his Wisdom of the Hands woodworking class in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. This comprehensive guide offers step-by-step instruction for teachers, parents and grandparents to offer safe woodworking opportunities to their students and kids 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 insight needed to safely engage children in life-enhancing creative arts. — ISBN13: 9781951217235