I just came across an amazing collection of color photography from an era in American history when life was tougher, but in a lot of ways l...

Hands-on learning comes in many shapes and forms. Woodshop class and woodcarving are most certainly a powerful catalyst for extending a chil...

Today I had the opportunity to work with a group of kids in the woods who were experiencing some behavioral issues and they couldn't mak...

Pinewood Derby has been alive and well for over 50 years as a premium Boy Scouting event. Although the races are predominately for preteen ...

So many projects and so little time, but I did finally finish the totem pole pinewood derby car that I started in this post a while back. T...

Currently everyone is focused on the upcoming April Fool's 500 Pinewood Derby race next month so both woodshop and Scouting classes have...

For the adults category of this year's "April Fool's 500" pinewood derby race, I have begun carving my car. Seems like I...

The pinewood derby comes around these parts about spring time each year and April 1st is currently the official race day for the April Fool...

This is a quick one minute clip from one of my woodshop classes last week. We build, carve, and burn a variety of projects but, like today...

After a few more days, finding a minute here and a minute there, I have finally finished the paint job on the 2 X 4 jeep that I posted here...

One of the best parts of my job as a woodshop teacher is new project development and I make every effort possible to correlate our educatio...

Just when I thought that I was done with carving "Simple Simon" the penguin as presents for this years Christmas season I came up...

As you can see the annual Christmas critter's project has continued into it's last week and the last classes for this project was o...

The Christmas critters classes have continued and as usual the kids have come up with even more original and creative ideas. It amazes me e...

It's not very often that you come across a kid that's really into working wood and I mean REALLY into the hobby... so much into it...

During the Christmas holiday season I decided to make all of our scouting classes an additional "bonus" woodshop session where th...