The Guide to Woodworking- This comprehensive guide offers step by step instruction for teachers, parents and grandparents to offer safe woodworking opportunities to their students and kiddos as a way of developing a wide range of valuable life-skills. Based in part on the philosophies of Froebel's Kindergarten and Educational Sloyd, this book illustrates the importance of doing real, hands-on activities in school and at home that enable students to: - Think things through for themselves - Develop skill, originality and inventiveness - Explore their own self-interests - Plan, organize and execute meaningful work - Prepare to profitably employ leisure time - Be handy and resourceful - Develop both character and intellect - Create useful beauty to benefit family, community and self The Guide to Woodworking is more than a woodworking book, it's gives parents, grandparents and teachers the confidence, encouragement, and the insight needed to safely engage children in life-enhancing creative arts.