Woodshop for Kids has you everything you ll need to know to get kids started using real tools to build real projects. Safety, tools, wood, measuring, hammering, nails and screws are discussed. Included are many tricks gleaned from Jack s 15 plus years of helping kids build with wood. Construction details for 52 projects are given. Projects range from the very simple like wood sanding, tops or puzzles for preschoolers to the more advanced like boxes, boats, yahoo stick or rope machine for older elementary age kids. Included are 75 illustrations by Rusty Keeler and over 100 photographs, many of kid created projects.
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.....WOODSHOP's 52 projects .....all designed to excite kids, not overwhelm them. Introdutory chapters give excellent advice on safety and tools. -- Asa Christiana, Editor, Fine Woodworking Magazine
"Woodshop for Kids" systematically and simply demonstrates how to help children use real tools to make useful objects. -- Deb Curtis, childcare teacher, author, and adult educator
....Safety covered at length.....the project instructions are well thought out....recommended. -- Library Journal
I highly recommend Woodshop for Kids. -- MaryAnnKohl, Award winning author and educational consulatant
I love this book. Woodshop for kids is a great guide to growing a new generation of creative kids. -- Roy Underhill, host of the PBS series the Woodwright's shop
"Woodshop for Kids" systematically and simply demonstrates how to help children use real tools to make useful objects. -- Deb Curtis, childcare teacher, author, and adult educator
....Safety covered at length.....the project instructions are well thought out....recommended. -- Library Journal
I highly recommend Woodshop for Kids. -- MaryAnnKohl, Award winning author and educational consulatant
I love this book. Woodshop for kids is a great guide to growing a new generation of creative kids. -- Roy Underhill, host of the PBS series the Woodwright's shop
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I am a second year pre-K teacher ...... Coincidentally, for Christmas last year, my son's uncle got him your book, "Workshop for Kids." I am just now looking through it for ideas for my class as I prepare for the next few weeks of instruction. I am struck by how well your book suits my needs as an educator of young children. I love to work with wood, and have fond memories of doing so as a young child, but I am no expert. Your advice and directions are clear and simple and give me the confidence that I can knowledgeably present this material to young children. I ESPECIALLY appreciate how you mention what your learned from your own experience with young children so I can anticipate and avoid the same pitfalls. Thank you for being by my side........ as I introduce my young students to the joys of working with wood. Laurie Franzino, Jr. K Teacher Waterside School
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Jack McKee is a builder, designer, teacher and writer. He has worked as a mechanic, remodeled houses, built small boats, designed (and built) equipment used by children's museums, schools and preschools and built an electric car. His design for Builder Boards and for a marble roll are used in children's museums around the country. Plans for a solar hot dog cooker, a marble roll and a fun house mirror (called the mirror steeror) are available free on his website: woodshop4kids.com.
He worked at a Montessori school teaching "shop" to preschoolers, taught woodworking and science for the local parks department, had a traveling science exhibit, worked with autistic children, taught "Woodworking for Kids," a workshop for teachers, and helped kids build boats and cardboard domes.
His articles have appeared in Home Education, Tech Directions, Early Childhood Today and Wooden Boat and on various internet sites. He has written two books, Woodshop For Kids and Builder Boards.
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49 of 50 people found the following review helpful
By K. Jones
Format:Paperback
As the director of a hands-on museum in Bellingham, Washington, and being the one responsible for selecting books to put on the shelves of our library area, I was immediately attracted to this offering by Jack McKee. I'm always on the lookout for this sort of material, since I like to include information in our library that's in keeping with one of our missions, fostering closer relationships between youngsters and adults. Not only does this book fit well with that aim, but it's a highly useful guide to getting started on building entertaining and useful things out of wood and other common household materials.
*Woodshop for Kids* contains information that any parent who understands the importance of teaching manual skills to youngsters will find essential, especially if unaccustomed to teaching. As an adult, it's easy to assume that certain aspects of building things out of wood are intuitively obvious. For example, if you've done a little woodworking yourself, you probably believe that using a saw or pounding a nail is such an obvious act that a child, or even an uninitiated adult, should be able to do it without instruction. Such is rarely the case, especially nowadays when kids start their lives immersed in television and computers, and schools have eliminated such "unnecessary" subjects as "shop" from their curriculums. In America, the old "do-it-yourself" days have vanished in the mists of time. We buy everything, including toys for our children, and we are much the poorer for it.
Whether you're an experienced craftsman who wants to teach youngsters how to use tools, or a rank beginner desiring to learn something useful yourself while having some fun with your kids, this is a great book. I've actually recommended that my own staff members read it as a guide to mentoring youngsters or non mechanically-handy adults in workshop practices. The initial four chapters provide an unusually clear discussion of simple woodworking tools, materials, and skills. Simultaneously, it sets a fine example regarding how to present this sort of material to a student, whether child or inexperienced adult.
The long fifth chapter of McKee's book devotes itself to a whole list of projects that kids can build or you can build with (or without!) them. They include puzzles, musical instruments, toys, simple scientific demonstrations, and many other interesting things. An appendix includes a tool list, possible sources for them, and how to build a couple useful tools yourself.
Instead of buying plastic gadgets that run on batteries for your kids, consider using this book as a guide for working with them to help them learn how they can delight themselves with what they can create with their own two hands. McKee has taught woodworking to youngsters, including his own, for many years. His book is a compilation of his own long experience in the field, and you won't find a better guide to the subject than this one.
*Woodshop for Kids* contains information that any parent who understands the importance of teaching manual skills to youngsters will find essential, especially if unaccustomed to teaching. As an adult, it's easy to assume that certain aspects of building things out of wood are intuitively obvious. For example, if you've done a little woodworking yourself, you probably believe that using a saw or pounding a nail is such an obvious act that a child, or even an uninitiated adult, should be able to do it without instruction. Such is rarely the case, especially nowadays when kids start their lives immersed in television and computers, and schools have eliminated such "unnecessary" subjects as "shop" from their curriculums. In America, the old "do-it-yourself" days have vanished in the mists of time. We buy everything, including toys for our children, and we are much the poorer for it.
Whether you're an experienced craftsman who wants to teach youngsters how to use tools, or a rank beginner desiring to learn something useful yourself while having some fun with your kids, this is a great book. I've actually recommended that my own staff members read it as a guide to mentoring youngsters or non mechanically-handy adults in workshop practices. The initial four chapters provide an unusually clear discussion of simple woodworking tools, materials, and skills. Simultaneously, it sets a fine example regarding how to present this sort of material to a student, whether child or inexperienced adult.
The long fifth chapter of McKee's book devotes itself to a whole list of projects that kids can build or you can build with (or without!) them. They include puzzles, musical instruments, toys, simple scientific demonstrations, and many other interesting things. An appendix includes a tool list, possible sources for them, and how to build a couple useful tools yourself.
Instead of buying plastic gadgets that run on batteries for your kids, consider using this book as a guide for working with them to help them learn how they can delight themselves with what they can create with their own two hands. McKee has taught woodworking to youngsters, including his own, for many years. His book is a compilation of his own long experience in the field, and you won't find a better guide to the subject than this one.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A guidebook of creative and entertaining woodworking projects that young people can create
December 14, 2005
Format:Paperback
Written by Jack McKee and illustrated by Rusty Keeler, Woodshop For Kids: 52 Woodworking Projects Kids Can Build is a thoroughly "user friendly" guidebook of creative and entertaining woodworking projects that young people can create, given age-appropriate adult supervision and guidance. Individual chapters include detailed instructions for 52 different projects, from a marble roll to a sailboat letter holder to a step stool; tips on how to find free wood and use woodworking tools safely; advice on acquiring and woodworking tools appropriate for kids; and much more. 179 black-and-white photos and illustrations round out this helpful and constructive guide to a stimulating, family-friendly activity.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By C. Custer
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This book has laid out a plan of activities to make it fun to work/play with your kids in the workshop. Great book. My 8 and 9 year olds really liked it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A great guide for introducing young children to the joys of wood...
Dear Mr. McKee,
I am a second year pre-K teacher who is teaching a class/grade that is just as new to the school as I am. Read more
I am a second year pre-K teacher who is teaching a class/grade that is just as new to the school as I am. Read more
Published 2 months ago by A Pre-k Teacher
4.0 out of 5 stars
Easy to follow instructions
This book is great for a parent who is also a beginner at woodworking. Clear instructions and helpful suggestions throughout the book!
Published on April 13, 2011 by Theresa Daigle
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dissapointing
The projects in this book are dull and provide little interet to (my) kids.
It also lacks drawing and illustrtations. However, it is well written
It also lacks drawing and illustrtations. However, it is well written
Published on December 22, 2010 by Assaf Matia
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic
This book has provided hours of fun for both my eight year old son and myself. Very clear and simple directions for how to be creative with wood in a safe manner. Read more
Published on September 13, 2010 by Ms. Ohana
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is a book to help kids through kinesthetic learning.
There are three major learning modalities or styles: visual (through seeing), auditory (through hearing), and kinesthetic (through doing with the hands and body). Read more
Published on March 11, 2009 by Fran Roberson
5.0 out of 5 stars
More than just woodworking here. A parent's way to empower kids
Jack McKee has written two nonfiction books about ways to teach manual skills to children through building projects: Woodshop for Kids and Builderboards. Read more
Published on January 21, 2008 by Janey Bennett
5.0 out of 5 stars
Woodshop for Kids an excellent choice
I would highly recommend Woodshop for Kids. It not only gives projects that children can do, some with the help of an adult, but it covers what the tools are, what they do and how... Read more
Published on March 26, 2007 by Susan Rene Harris
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