The Guide to Woodworking with Kids

The Guide to Woodworking with Kids: Craft Projects to Develop the Lifelong Skills of Young Makers By Doug Stowe Introduce children to the craft of woodworking and watch their executive function skills thrive. The Guide to Woodworking with Kids 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. This comprehensive guide is the 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. 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 inventiven