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 that children can make and enjoy hours of play with afterward. Projects include: . A kazoo . Mini furniture . A duck call . Whimmy diddle . 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. AGES: 7 to 11 AUTHOR: Richard Irvine is a qualified teacher with a love of the outdoors and over 20 years' experience in the field of outdoor learning. An accomplished greenwood carver, he brings woodcraft into his work wherever possible through progressing children's skills at Forest School and running professional development workshops and recreational carving days for adults. His books include the award-winning Forest Craft, and he lives in Devon.