Young and old, makin' stuff together.
Picture this: a bunch of grandfathers and their grandkids doing woodwork together... Yep, and they had a ball, too! I recently had the pleasure of facilitating the "Intergenerational Creations" program at the Stirling Community Men's Shed. Over 5 consecutive Saturday mornings, a bunch of Grandfathers and grandkids came together to make stuff, at the wonderful facility, the Stirling Community Men's Shed . They have a fantastic woodworking workshop at the Shed, in regards to machinery and power tools - however it's not really set up for hand tool woodworking. We need to do some work on that front! The promotional flyer for the program. Getting started. Initially there was no plan, other than the grandads and grandkids would be making things together. As the facilitator, my task was to put the meat on the bones, so to speak, and to enable and guide the whole thing to a successful conclusion. So how to do this? The projects we would embark upon needed to be meaning...