The Guide to Woodworking With Kids

The Guide to Woodworking With Kids
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Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : 1951217233
ISBN-13 : 9781951217235
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Book Synopsis The Guide to Woodworking With Kids by : Doug Stowe

Download or read book The Guide to Woodworking With Kids written by Doug Stowe and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 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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