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Product Description
This unique woodworking primer teaches boys and girls age 7 and up basic carpentry skills through easy-to-make projects: bird feeder, sailboat, tie rack, flower box and 11 more. Young carpenters will beam with pride at having constructed useful objects to keep or give as presents to parents or friends. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations.
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Easy Carpentry Projects for Children
November 1, 2009 at 5:21 pm
This little book looks good so far although we’ll still have to saee how the kids cope on their own & if they’ll be able to successfully plan each project – unfortunately it’s all in inches & feet & I’m not keen to teach my kids all that stuff so we are going to have to do conversions.I feel this could have been highlighted prior to purchase.
Rating: 3 / 5
November 1, 2009 at 6:01 pm
I ordered this book to ahve some projects to work on with my kids. Although the projects themselves are not so difficult, it shouldn’t take so much work to figure out what the project is and how to do it. I have seen better productions that were easy for both adult and child to follow.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 1, 2009 at 7:57 pm
and the bird feeder has worked wonderfully! He wanted to make some projects with his tools, and it was a great bonding experience working with his grandpa. It was one of his Christmas gifts he was excited about!
Rating: 4 / 5
November 1, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I bought this for my son to go with a set of “grown up” hand tools he received as a Christmas gift. The book is well written with just enough illustrations…not cluttered with too much information. It’s like the author is standing next to you, talking you through the entire project. Every project seems to be laid out in logical order.
A caution I’d mention is that the reading level suggested with the book is Ages 4-8…which is accurate…but reading level and carpentry skill are not the same. My son is 6, and this is fun with LOTS of adult supervision. I think he will enjoy this book more when he is in the 8-10 age range.
One other caution I would mention is that this book was written in 1959. Some of the projects – like the shoeshine kit – are a bit dated.
So, all in all, I would recommend the book, but for an older age-range and don’t expect anything high-tech here.
Rating: 5 / 5
November 1, 2009 at 11:56 pm
I’m not a child (60) but I wanted some simple woodworking projects to get started with. This is a great resource
Rating: 4 / 5