Every kid needs a hobby or two, and woodworking is a about as rewarding a hobby as they come.
Completing a woodworking project - no matter how simple, requires steps from start, middle, to finished end product. A finished project rewards the builder with a sense of accomplishment.
And it doesn't even have to be a complicated or challenging project. You can buy ready to assemble and paint wooden toys for a few bucks at local craft stores - simple as can be, just put the parts together done in an hour or two - no sharp tools are even required.
Perhaps a ready to assemble wood toy is a little tame compared to the plastic or electronic toys available today, but they're a very low cost, way of seeing if your kid has the patients and aptitude for woodworking, not to mention a little father son quality time.
As your child's manual dexterity improves he will become ready for something a little more involved. Maybe a birdhouse kit or a table lamp kit is the next project to undertake.
Better still, you can help jump start your child's creative problem solving skills by designing and building a birdhouse from scratch. That will really challenge them to think about how to do use the skills they've learned - how to lay out the patterns to cut from a sheet of wood, and how join the pieces together to go from inanimate pieces to a functioning thing of value.
When your child can think through a design and build it, he or she will have made real progress in their ability to think through and solve problems.
Completing a woodworking project - no matter how simple, requires steps from start, middle, to finished end product. A finished project rewards the builder with a sense of accomplishment.
And it doesn't even have to be a complicated or challenging project. You can buy ready to assemble and paint wooden toys for a few bucks at local craft stores - simple as can be, just put the parts together done in an hour or two - no sharp tools are even required.
Perhaps a ready to assemble wood toy is a little tame compared to the plastic or electronic toys available today, but they're a very low cost, way of seeing if your kid has the patients and aptitude for woodworking, not to mention a little father son quality time.
As your child's manual dexterity improves he will become ready for something a little more involved. Maybe a birdhouse kit or a table lamp kit is the next project to undertake.
Better still, you can help jump start your child's creative problem solving skills by designing and building a birdhouse from scratch. That will really challenge them to think about how to do use the skills they've learned - how to lay out the patterns to cut from a sheet of wood, and how join the pieces together to go from inanimate pieces to a functioning thing of value.
When your child can think through a design and build it, he or she will have made real progress in their ability to think through and solve problems.
No comments:
Post a Comment