Last weekend, Luke and Atticus put together our craft board – a board that allows kids to clip items (such as yarn, branches, ribbon) to it and work with them without the board moving. Sort of like a really, really heavy clipboard. We based ours on this post by another Enki family. Basically, we bought two boards at Lowe’s – some 1×12 pine and some 1xslightlymorethan12 MDF. Luke cut two pieces of the MDF and one piece of the pine into 18″ lengths. Then Luke and Atticus glued one piece of the MDF and one piece of the pine together:
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They then added four countersunk screws
and repeated the process with the second piece of MDF. After letting the glue dry for a few hours, Luke sawed the MDF (mysteriously larger than the Pine) to the right size, smoothed the edges and sanded.
Atticus loved loved loved making the board and has been begging to do some more woodworking projects ever since.
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Maybe we should try to make the sample blocks tomorrow.
Yay! This looks like fun. Reminds me of woodworking with mom on our womens trip! And now I get a good idea of what Atticus’s haircut looks like. He really looks like a grown up little boy. sniff sniff!
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