Easy Wood Carving for Children

Fun Whittling Projects for Adventurous Kids

FLORIS BOOKSISBN:9781782505150

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By Frank Egholm, Translated by Anna Cardwell
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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 childrens concentration, creativity and dexterity, its 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.

Contents


Introduction


Difficulty levels


Whittling guidelines


Getting started


Finding a whittling knife


Protective gear


Wood


Where to find fresh branches


Dry wood


Wood carving


techniques


Whittling away from the body


Whittling towards the body


Practical tips


Sharpening knives


Saws and garden shears


Splitting wood


Colouring wood


Sanding wood


Carving seat


Whittling and reading


 


Animal figures


Bird made from a single branch


Bird with a feathery tail


Bird made from the end of a branch


Lifelike bird


 


Pigs and dogs


Fence with string or rails


Dolphin


Seal


Snake


Games


Pig throwing


Game pieces


Tower of Hanoi


The four confounding squares


Toys


Racing car


Spinning tops


Spinning top with handle and pull string


Whittled top


 

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.


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