It's been on my mind for a while to start Chanel with woodworking activities. Finally, during the School holidays we gathered a few tools to create some woodworking projects to encourage her imagination and creativity. Here are some ideas of how to do it at home!
Above and below Chanel is creating a star pattern after hammering nails across.
Here are a few tools we found for our woodworking projects:
- A Workbench
- Wooden Slice
- Screw driver
- Nails
- Small Hammer
- Hand saw
- screw driver
- cross head
- flat head
- chisel
- spanner
- hex key
- set square
- electric screw drivers
- heads flat head, cross head and hex
- vice
We used this box to storage the materials and we found this store useful for the others materials.
The woodworking bench provides the potential to help children develop important skills in science, engineering, and mathematics and gain a sense of power, satisfaction and accomplishment so that they can shout, “I made this happen!”
There are many woodworking set in the market, however, I feel making our own kit was meaningful. We choose child-size but real tools and quality materials that really give us a sense of purpose.
Woodworking activities include constructions, putting two blocks together using bolts, washers and wing nuts, using a screw driver to join two blocks of wood, building ladders, cars and many more.
At five years of age Chanel wants to experiment and create, and I would love to get to the point where she can plan, perhaps her own bookshelf design!.
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