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

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Doug Stowe

The Guide to Woodworking with Kids

Craft Projects to Develop the Lifelong Skills of Young Makers

Doug Stowe

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Blue Hills Press
01 November 2020

Art & Architecture; Furniture design; Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts; Toys: making & decorating; DIY: carpentry & woodworking; Handicrafts (Children's&YA)

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.

By: Doug Stowe
Imprint: Blue Hills Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm,
ISBN: 9781951217235
ISBN 10: 1951217233
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 01 November 2020
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Doug Stowe began his woodworking career in 1976 and was reminded of the importance of hands-on learning by teaching his own daughter in the wood shop. In 2001 he launched the Wisdom of the Hands Program at the Clear Spring School to prove the value of hands-on learning in a school wood shop. He is the author of 13 other woodworking books, over 100 articles in woodworking magazines and educational journals, and publishes a blog dedicated to promoting the value of hands-on learning, Wisdomofhands.blogspot.com. The son of a kindergarten teacher, Stowe has become a respected authority on learning for all ages. In addition to teaching at the Clear Spring School, Stowe teaches adults the fine art of woodworking at schools and clubs throughout the United States.