Easy Woodworking Project to Make with Kids // Beginner Woodworking Projects

Since a lot of us are stuck at home with our kids now, I figured I would show you guys a few quick and simple woodworking projects you can make with your kids.

DISCLAIMER: Woodworking is VERY dangerous. I demonstrate things in this video, like using power tools, as the prep work that should be done for these projects. I am in NO WAY suggesting you should let your children use these tools. Be smart! Decide whether or not your child is capable of focusing and listening to instructions before you let them touch any sort of tool.

Be SMART! Be SAFE! Have FUN!

Huge thank you to Woodcraft for sponsoring what I do! A great way to get your kids involved in woodworking is to let them use hand tools. The spokeshave is one of the safest handtools to use and kids love using them!

Here are the timestamped links to all the different projects:

0:00 Start
0:18 Important Points About Woodworking with Kids
2:13 Toothbrush Holders
3:32 Banana Holder
7:18 Piggy Banks
10:26 Backgammon or Checkers in a Bag
12:17 Acoustic Speaker with Funnel
17:48 Acoustic Speaker with Toy Bugle
21:36 Sounds Test for Acoustic Speakers
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WOODCRAFT LINKS

Powermatic 14" Bandsaw:

Forstner Bits:

Dowels:

Wood Handscrew Clamps:

Mini Dozuki Saw:

Coping Saw:

Incra Miter Gauge:

Chisels:

AMAZON (affiliate) LINKS

Dowel Plate:

Acrylic Sheets:

Small Screws for Piggy Banks:

Canvas Backpack:

Funnel:

Toy Bugle:

Mini Block Plane:

Safe Furniture Finish:

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My Recording Equipment

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[jackfrost]

Tamar, I love how you marked the sections/projects within the video timeline and scrubber. These details don't go unnoticed and are appreciated! Thank you!

[afpwebworks]

You are a great mum for involving your kids in this kind of activity. I know they are going to remember these moments for the rest of their lives. My son and I had a great time with my 7 year old granddaughter when we were making her a big toybox to store all her soft toys - teddy bears etc. We were in his workshop sanding and cutting and painting, and she was in her pretty pink princess tutu helping us. If her mother had known (she was out for the day) she would have had a blue fit!! She would have exploded if she'd been able to see her daughter playing in the piles of sawdust on the floor, or using the drill to make holes in the box for the handles, or using our orbital sander, all while wearing her pretty pink princess dress. But my granddaughter just loved the afternoon.

[sanjdale]

Thanks! You have just won me so many points with the wife. We have a week off together and I suggested making the mobile phone speaker together for her 86 year old grandmother. She's very excited.

[karenchamberlain]

Awesome! As a high school shop teacher, I wholeheartedly agree with your comments about some kids are able to be trusted to use machines before other kids.

[djf]

These are great ideas. Annnnd, while watching the speaker contraption build, I immediately realized this is something I can build with both of my kids to hold their MP3 players when they are listening to music at night in their rooms. Specifically when they are going to bed and do not want to wear headphones. BRILLIANT!

[DonaldSmith]

What a great mom! Reminds me the projects my mom and I did. I still have them in my office at 67 years old. My girls are older but once life becomes normal again I will start a project with my granddaughter. Love your channel, keep up the good work.

[jeffsimpson]

These are wonderful. I'm an elementary school music teacher and woodworker, and my principal has been asking me about doing woodworking classes, but I couldn't conceive of how to even approach it. These are great ideas!

[robmyers]

Love this. Constantly looking for ideas to make things with my twin grandaughters. Their first project (at 3) was "hammering" in dowels in the outside edge to a circle I cut out, and painting it yellow like the sun, and of course drawing a smile face on it... I think the banana stand may be in their future... :) Keep up the great work!

[Troy-Echo]

That dowel making jig was cool, and while looking at these I found another that you cut a piece of square stock and put into a drill jig, then the dowel holes have little teeth to shave off a little wood as you go through the dowel jig. This is a great way to have dowels to cover screw holes and perfectly match the wood. I learned something new today!

[stellabelikiewicz]

These projects are brilliant, and your kids’ creativity is so inspiring! That foot toothbrush holder made me smile so very much 😁

I feel like kids are so good at reminding us of one of my favorite aphorisms: “perfection is the enemy of getting shit done”! Also, often imperfect but wonderfully imaginative things live in our hearts so strongly.

[ausbennett]

MY KID WANTED TO MAKE SOMETHING AND THIS VIDEO REALLY HELPED ME

[KevnAle]

This is so awesome. Thank you for making this video! I have a 6 and 4 year-old who both love "helping" with projects around the house and I've been looking for projects exactly like these.

[biedawo]

Dowels are great for kids to work with. I'd recommend making a v-block and clamping them in that when cutting to length. This helps stabilize them a bit more than clamping directly to a flat surface. Nice video.

[raemunroe]

The bag as the board is brilliant! Also, the backgammon board looks like a piece of modern art :)

[xcusetools]

Have watched many of your videos in past and just found this one today, I was looking for projects to work with the Grandkids and believe that any of these projects will be great. Looking forward to trying them out.. Appreciate you sharing these ideas.

[geodesicmonkey]

As an Architect and perfectionist, Rule #2 is hard! but the most important for my daughters artistic development and enjoyment!!

[seanloughran]

I love the intro. Assess your own kids and do what you're comfortable with. You know your kids way more than anyone else. Great ideas!!

[kendavis]

LOL - now all you need for the next project is a subwoofer made from hardwood scraps! :-) Good stuff. My children are grown, but one of these days, maybe I will have grand kids to share these ideas with. Thumbs up! (And now I feel the need to go find some wood and make a backgammon board.)

[aoguchi]

I love this. So good! The glimpse of your kids building at the end is so sweet 🥰

[robertevans]

Your kids have one of the best teachers math, science, shop....very cool video, a way to make learning fun, if it is fun, they will learn....well done Tamar
You get hundreds of gold stars....