Beginner Woodworking Projects

The Guide to Woodworking- 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 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.