How to Make Wooden Craft Projects
Woodworking crafts can be as simple or as elaborate as you want to make them. Leaning the basics of woodworking allows a beginner to step up from simple decorative crafts into actual wood carving, burning or building. When making a woodworking craft project, you need to establish who will be doing the craft and the skill level involved.
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Instructions
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Developing the Project
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Establish the target age and skill level of those the craft is intended for. You can design simple crafts for young children with limited skills or more advanced crafts for those who already have a good understanding of woodworking.
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Review the tools and materials needed for the craft. Children doing a popsicle stick wood frame would need the popsicle sticks, white glue, paints and other items to decorate the craft. Someone learning to carve details into a wood log will need etching tools.
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Create a list of steps in the order needed to make the craft. For simple projects, this might start with collecting the materials, choosing the wood and drawing a design. For more elaborate projects, you may need to discuss how to choose different types of wood to achieve different types of results. For example, balsa is a softer wood that is malleable for beginner carvers.
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Practice the craft before you give it to your crafters. Go through step by step to make sure you aren't missing anything.
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Explain the craft project to the students and show them the final product, giving them an idea of the end-goal.
Sample Project: Popsicle Stick Frame
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Establish the age and skill: preschoolers making a picture frame as a Mother's Day present. Skill level: easy.
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Gather the materials: 13 popsicle sticks, white glue, paint, picture, scissors.
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Establish the steps to make the frame: First, lay 11 popsicle sticks side-by-side horizontally on the table in front of you. Next, place a line of glue across the edge of the sticks so the line goes across vertically. There should be a glue line on the right and left edge of the frame. Then, place a popsicle stick over the glue adhering the sticks on the table to the top stick, securing the sticks together. Allow to dry. Next, paint the frame to decorate it. Then, measure and cut the picture. Finally, glue the picture to the center of the frame.
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Build a popsicle stick frame. Check your steps. For example, the paint brush was excluded from the materials needed. Make the adjustments to your project plan.
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Present the craft to your students, showing them your frame.
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Tips & Warnings
Many woodworkers start with simple crafts of painting pre-cut pieces and work up to more elaborate projects. Establish proficiency in one area before moving into a new, more advanced level of woodworking.
