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Handy Dad: 25 Awesome Projects for Dads and Kids

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Handy Dad: 25 Awesome Projects for Dads and Kids is a user-friendly compendium of construction projects that dads (or moms, uncles/aunts, grandparents, or anyone else!) can create to promote quality playtime activities with children. From a backyard rope swing, to a bird feeder, a tree house, a half-pipe, or even a tie-dye shirt, the ideas range from toys that promote physical activity to delightful personal keepsakes. (Not all of the projects involve woodworking, although many do.) Older children can even participate in the joy of building something with one's own hands, under close supervision of course. Each project listing spells out the needed tools and materials and where to find them, along with step-by-step instructions. Full color photographs illustrate this wonderful guide to tapping into one's creativity to spend quality time with children. The perfect antidote to a world oversaturated with television and video games, Handy Dad is highly recommended.

This is a detailed book! I guess I was expecting a picture book with IDEAS about things to do with kids. It's instructions, step-by-step, page by page for completing the projects. It's a good resource to keep around for the coming years. Our kids are 2 and 10 months, and most of the ideas are aimed at older kids, so I think it will get used more later.

Great projects with GREAT instructions. Can be built in a day or weekend. Great system for rating difficulty, skill levels, and time involved. Highly recommend.

My husband is so excited by this book! The kids gave it to him for Christmas and he has shown it to everyone who has come over. This is not like him, considering he is not ususally an overly excitable guy. He can't wait to try the zip line, he just hopes that he can make it strong enough to hold him!

This is a stocking Christmas gift for my son-in-law and two grandsons. I have thumbed through the book and think they will have some fun doing the simple projects together and making some memories along the way

Like others, I gave this to my husband for Father's Day. There are many projects ranging from simple to nearly expert. We are in the 'novice' category right now. My husband is just mastering the art of power tools and simple carpentry. (He is a computer geek!)

This book gives simple, direct instructions for lots of fun things to do with your kids. I recommend it for any loose ended weekends!

I bought this book for my husband and 6-year old son. They found 4 or 5 projects they could reasonably do together without too much cost or time. It will also come in handy for some of the school science projects this year!

I had my boys get my husband this for Father's Day. He loved it and him and the boys are excited to make some of the stuff. There are different projects at different levels of difficulty. Some really neat stuff that I don't think they would have thought of on their own.

Gave this to my son for fathers day. He was intrigued and was definetly going to try out some of the ideas with his 2 boys.

I wish that I had this book when my kids were young. There are a lot of projects that I would have loved to worked on. My four girls and I would have had lot of fun making the projects. My eldest would have loved to have made her own skateboard, and she did help a friend make a skateboard ramp in his back yard - some 15 years ago.

My only complaint is the title. The title of the book is rather sexist. My husband would not have touched this book. (I'm the one who fixes the recliner.)