Preschool woodworking center

This open ended woodworking station gives the children the opportunity to use real tools and work on motor skills

Modarri's Mix-and-Match Building System allows you to design your own custom car. Put your finger in the driver's seat and just point where you want to go!

The Woodworking Center is ready to go. We are beginning our Tools We Use week in Scholastic's Imagine It, Make It theme and the children will be making and creating things using real tools. I look forward to this center every year, but there are safety rules and when it is open, a teacher is always close by.

Self Portraits using Loose Parts ~ made with scrap wood, old washers, nuts and bolts

If there is one thing I have come to know, it's awesome activities for preschoolers. Benjamin visits a wonderful preschool two mornings a week and this lovely place is FULL of amazing activities for preschoolers. The two lovely people who run this preschool have allowed me to share their classroom activities with you - and

Today we have a really awesome guest post from Jen at The Science Mommy! She has a GREAT hands-on science blog with ideas for kids of all ages to enjoy! I saw this post for

Setting Up your home the Montessori way from the start with handmade materials.

Did I just type those three words into the title for this post? Does "preschooler woodworking fun" sound like an oxymoron to you, too? I feel a thrum of anxiety each time I pull out wood working tools, so the idea of adding an exuberant preschooler to the mix is definitely not my idea of fun. There are those intrepid and fearless folk among us who have high tolerance for such things, and maybe even enjoy woodworking with preschoolers (my friend Faith, for example). However, I am not one of…