Get the kids into wood work!

[joiner_sim]

Hi all,

Brought a wooden aeroplane kit from Sainsburys on the weekend for my girlfriend's little sister. It was faily simple to make, came with glue and paints. And instructions. Only a fiver.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colorific-11639-Wood-Worx-Aeroplane/dp/B0009GV5PE

From looking at this idea, I thought it wouldn't cost much at all to build the kit myself, just a couple of offcuts really. But keeps kids entertained for a few hours, and gets them into wood work!

Just thought I'd let you all know about this!
Simon.

 

[CroppyBoy1798]

Wow, I remember getting little kits like that when I was little, always for Christmas or something. You could make lots of different things...........in only I'd actually sit down and take my time at trying to make them :lol:

My progression to woodworking was first through Lego, then model airplanes/tanks and then I figured I wanted to create my own things from scratch

 

[The Shark]

I have 2 teenage boys. The eldest couldn't care less about woodwork or anything practical, but the youngest has shown an interest. I have bought him a little tool box and some tools from Aldi, and he has a go. The trouble is he does so much other stuff that it is hard to fit the woodworking in. Still, if the seed has been sown...........

Malc

 

[DaveL]

I have bought these kits for my grandchildren, they are great.

We spent the weekend making helicopters, the paint did get everywhere, even on Iona (the white dog). :roll:

 

[joiner_sim]

I have bought these kits for my grandchildren, they are great.

We spent the weekend making helicopters, the paint did get everywhere, even on Iona (the white dog). :roll:

Thankfully, the experience for me wasn't so messy! :lol:

 

[speed]

its a good idea to get them started, when i did woodwork at school it was one lesson cutting something out and 45 lessons sanding it, i suppose it puts plenty of people offf

 

[joiner_sim]

You're exactly right. I never did woodwork....."Resistant Materials" at GCSE level. But left school and went straight into my apprentiship! :roll:

 

[John. B]

Hated woodwork at school, they made us make things like a shoebrush box, or a flat bit of wood with a coat hanger on it.
Now metalwork :lol: That was great. I once made a hand beaten fancy handled pewter beer mug ccasion5: Much more useful.

John. B

 

[wizer]

No such thing as woodwork or metalwork when I was at school. It was CDT which was basically a small amount of exposure to lots of different 'crafts' but mainly centred around electronics.

 

[John. B]

Of course when I was at school the word 'Nerd' hadn't been invented

 

[frugal]

Hated woodwork at school, they made us make things like a shoebrush box, or a flat bit of wood with a coat hanger on it.
Now metalwork :lol: That was great. I once made a hand beaten fancy handled pewter beer mug ccasion5: Much more useful.

John. B

Strangely enough I had the opposite: Metal work was just making a coat hook with a flat back plate. Woodwork was making animals, presentation cases and those pull along toys that bend in the middle.

 

[woodyone]

Im actually doing the last year of my resistant materials GCSE at the moment. It is the only real lesson that i look forward to doing at school, as the other lessons are pretty boring. Even though this is not what got me into woodwork, these lessons and what i learn at home in my workshop is how i learn about woodworking. But to tell the truth i probably learn more at home.

Woody.