Looking for an outdoor hobby to engage your children and encourage them to be crafty and creative? Wood carving is not only easy to learn and fun to do, but almost everything you need to get started can be found for free – right outside your door!
Together you can craft a tumbling tower game, a racing car toy, a dolphin necklace or even a handy coat hook! With more than fifty activities at levels for beginners and up, children can create something useful, beautiful or fun (often all three!) out of wood.
Learning wood carving not only helps to improve children's concentration, creativity and dexterity, it's also invaluable in teaching them how to handle knives safely.
Adventurous children will be thrilled to learn woodland skills, while nature-loving parents will enjoy rediscovering the lost art of whittling with their kids.
Packed with ideas to fuel your child's creative energy and help them find a new outdoor hobby this season
Wood carving can help improve concentration, creativity and dexterity
Help parents share hygge and lagom values with their kids with this on-trend hobby
Includes 180 colour illustrations and easy to follow step-by-step instructions
Wood carving is the perfect outdoor hobby for adventurous children. Teach them how to make toys, games and even jewellery with more than fifty fun whittling and wood carving projects, each fully illustrated with easy-to-follow instructions.
Format: paperback
Size: 195 x 178 mm
Publisher: Floris Books
Illustrations: 180 colour illustrations
Age Range: From 6 to 12 years
Extent: 128 pages
Author
Frank Egholm is a lecturer, author and former woodwork teacher who worked for many years at the Rudolf Steiner School in Vordingborg, Denmark. Frank also designs and develops his own wooden toys and games, and is married to the illustrator Lillian Egholm.
Anna Cardwell is a translator who lives in Edinburgh, UK.
