Come on, kids: grab a hammer, step up to the workbench, and get ready to measure, saw, drill, and make cool things! Wood Shop is an exciting introduction for today's kids to an age-old tradition: building with wood.
With step-by-step photographs and clear instructions, aspiring woodworkers learn essential skills such as how to drive a nail, use a power drill, "measure twice, cut once," and saw correctly. Then the fun begins, with 17 cool and creative projects kids can build to furnish the wood shop, decorate their bedrooms and homes, and create their own play equipment. Favorite projects include Tic-Tac-Toe-To Go!, One-Board Birdhouse, a Tool Tote, and a hanging Twinkle Light. Wood Shop is the perfect gift for tinkerers, young makers, fans of LEGO toys, and aspiring carpenters and engineers.
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In this carpentry-camp-in-a-book, kids ages 8 to 12 learn the fun and creative pleasure of essential woodworking skills and build imaginative projects, from a Tool Tote to a Birdhouse and Sky-High Stilts. Margaret Larson is the co-owner of the New England School of Architectural Woodworking and The Workbench, a woodworking and craft school offering classes for kids and adults. She lives with her family in western Massachusetts. Introduction
Shop Skills
Chapter 1: Setting Up Shop
Chapter 2: Tool School
Projects
Chapter 3: Workshop & Storage
Sawing Jigs
Clever Compass
Tool Tote
Storage Pegboard
My Own Workbench
Chapter 4: Fun & Games
Easy-Up Tent
Tiny Tent
Tic-Tac-Toe – To Go!
One-Board Birdhouse
Sky-High Stilts
Chapter 5: My Room
String Thing
Twinkle Twinkle Star
Hanging Twinkle Board
DIY Pencil Holder
Chapter 6: House
Tea Light Candleholder
Clock Time
Mighty Message Board
Appendix
Makers' Market
Templates
Index
Metric Conversion Chart Build It Yourself!
Learn how to handle a handsaw, drive nails with a hammer, drill a clean hole, and more! Get woodworking basics under your (tool) belt, then use your skills to bring your creative ideas to life, with projects for woodshop, room, home – plus some just for fun! "Wood Shop by Margaret Larson should be required reading for all elementary-age children. From the gorgeous photos and illustrations to the detailed project plans and tool introductions, Wood Shop presents woodworking and making in a fun and informative way. These projects encourage building and bonding, which strengthen relationships and form self-reliance. Larson understands that children are extremely capable, and Wood Shop is the ideal book to introduce skills that will last a lifetime." - Timothy Dahl, cofounder of Built by Kids
"This thoroughly appealing and empowering starter course in woodworking skills is a first purchase for libraries serving young makers." - School Library Journal
