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Perth City Farm is a great place. It was a pleasure to be involved once again in their April school holiday program for kids aged 6 - 12 years. Over five days, a heap of kids did cooking, woodwork, circus skills, garden sculpture, art & craft, and tasks around the farm and gardens. I ran the woodwork activities each day. As well as free creative play with hammers, nails, saws, and lots of wood,  I offered different projects for the kids each day. These included kitchen spatulas, cheeseboards, message boards, garden planter beds, and Cajun drums. Talking to some kids about the wood we are using. Photo courtesy Perth City Farm. All the material we used was recycled timber, rescued from the waste stream - predominantly from packing crates and other packaging materials, etc. Much of this I had previously docked up ready for the kids to use.   Benches and space set up at the start of the program, with the "sawing station" on the front right. Tool use. The kids...

A recent weekend I had was pretty hectic. Unusually, I was doing woodwork with kids in 3 different events over 3 days. Keeping an eye on 25 kids at a time using hammers, nails and saws is hectic enough, but the setting up, cleaning up, packing up, and moving it all to the next location is physically hard yakka. Yeah, but the looks of delight on the faces of the kids as they created their masterpieces was worth all the sweat and tiredness... Friday 30 March - Bentley Primary School Harmony Day Fair. The School Fair was an event under Harmony Week. So appropriate for such a wonderfully multicultural school. Heaps of kids had a wonderful time making stuff with hammers, nails and saws.  Here I'm mostly set up and ready for the arrival of the kids. My small kids benches. Parents love seeing their kids creating things with wood. Being a Harmony Week event, many kids were wearing their national dress. Kids quickly learn to use the bench vices to help hold t...