Thread: Kits for young kids?

I wonder if there are any courses in your area for kids.

There are courses for boys aged between 8 & 12 in Mansfield which are very well attended. They are 1 1/2 hours each Monday night and go for 8 weeks.

The kids make 4 projects in that time including a key holder, a gum boot remover, a box and a tray.

Last Monday 2 blokes from this forum took the kids for the course.

You are probably a little too far but see if you can get something similar closer to home.

http://www.americanwoodworker.com/us...oolCabinet.pdf

kids toys to make click on the text link for full plans not n the images

Ray

I just bought a tool kit from Bunnings for a 4yo's birthday present. It was $20 and contained belt, gloves, plastic play hat, 2 screwdrivers, square, 1m rule (foldable), hammer and a ***** sharp saw. After getting home I noticed on the back it said ages 5+ but after checking with the child's parents (neighbours) they said it was ok. I took everything out of the packaging to wrap it but kept the hammer and saw separate and gave them to the parents when Mr 4yo was not around.

Would be interested to hear if you find any kits for kids because my daughter will be 4 next March and was drooling over the present we bought for her little friend. At present she has a small timber mallet and some offcuts of pine and enjoys "building" things like decks with them.

Steph

Mel you could start with a small drill and some paddlepop sticks.

A windtwister is a stack of paddlepop sticks with a hole drilled in the middle.
Put a threaded rod through all the sticks and a nut on each end.

Just reading through while looking for something else, and noticed this thread !!!
I have recently been asked to do some inventing in this regard for littlies.
Already have an extensive range of Toy plans for the woodies, and am always getting asked for all sorts of interesting stuff, which are occasionally totally out of my league,- which is why I am looking for something,.............................
Anyway,amongst my Plans collection there are a few simple Toy plan designs, which I think I can set up as Wooden Toy Kits, designed to be easily assembled at home by Mum, Dad, & the kids, then decorated by whoever.
If there's one Mum / Dad, with this problem of trying to find something suitable for Junior to make,- there's bound to be many more parents about with the same problem,- and not only for parents of boys either, as personally know of at least one young girl in this town who is not girlie, and prefers Dad's workshop to being with her friends, or doing girlie things, therefore like I said there's bound to be a few thousand more parents around with a similar problem.
Now give me a week or two, and shall see what I can come up with.
Happy woodworking,
Roger