FOREST CRAFT HANDBOOK

This convenient handbook showcases 20 simple outdoor whittling projects that children can make.

With an emphasis on safety and adult supervision, this book presents simple and fun projects for children to make and enjoy hours of play with afterward. Projects include:

• A kazoo
• Mini furniture
• A duck call
• Rhythm sticks
• Elder wand 

The author, Richard Irvine, extols the virtues of exploring woodland, getting to know the trees in your local area and learning about their characteristics and suitability for whittling. He provides a thorough guide to the essential tools and equipment that are required, the timber he recommends and would advise against for beginners, and the techniques that will be used in the projects.

Following this are twenty projects with simple step-by-step instructions, photographs, and useful tips. Dotted throughout are exciting nuggets of information about woodland folklore. Plenty of inspirational photographs show how much fun it is to get out into the woodland with friends and family and share in this relaxing, rewarding pastime. For ages 7 to 11 years.

ISBN: 9781784946951
Imprint: GMC Publications
Publication Date: September 2024
Dimensions: 148mm x 210mm
Weight: 410g
No. Of Pages: 168