Woodwork & tools articles

How To Introduce Tools to Foster Independence

Nice article about toy vs 'real' tools and how to start incorporating tools into your preschool classroom or child's day. Natural Learning, 18 March 2021.

Risky Play With Tools In Schools

Looking at risky play with dangerous tools at home and at school, with examples including carving pumpkins, whittling and playing with hammers and nails. Benefits, including to fine motor skills. Megan Zeni.

10 Forest School Tools Activities

‘Tool play is so important for children, and develops many key skills and abilities. Using tools in forest school allows children to experience danger in the form of risky equipment. It helps them to manage risk, and become completely involved in the activity that they are doing…’ Early Impact, 2019.

Carpenters’ greatest hits: the craft of young woodworkers

“The next generation of craftsmen are putting traditional skills to new uses … Meet some of the carpenters and carvers who are changing the way we think about wood.” The Guardian, 18 February 2018.

How you can protect the future of craft

Explaining The Crafts Council’s manifesto: Our Future is in the Making: An Education Manifesto for Craft and Making, which sets out why craft and making is vital to our society, culture and economy, why craft education matters and why it is crucial that we secure it. Folksy, 17 April 2015.

Arts and Crafts Activities May Stave Off Dementia

"... people who engaged in craft activities such as woodworking or pottery were 45 percent less likely to develop mild cognitive impairment than those who did not participate in such activities, researchers found." Live Science (US), 8 April 2015.