Fun & Educational Youth Classes

** 2020 **

Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Snowmass Village, Colorado

Introduction to Building Furniture! - June 22-26

Come join in on a fun week of exploring ideas of assemblage; thinking and talking about how things are made. Design and build your own piece of furniture using glue and clamps, dowel rods and wooden slats. Learn lots of fun facts about trees and the role they plan in your environment.

Registration will open in early 2020. To find out more about the Children's Workshops just click here.

** 2019 **

John C. Campbell Folk School

Little Folk School June 16-22

This will be a fun week of exploring ideas of assemblage; thinking and talking about how things are made. With glue and clamps, we will design and build our own piece of furniture.

Class is Full - for waiting list see more here 

Penland Kids Camp

Intro to Wood Turning - July 1-5

In this class we'll learn the fundamentals of woodturning: creating mallets, learning the basic shapes, and building small projects in preparation for designing and creating legs for a stool, which will include learning how to make a wedged mortis-and-tenon joint.

Let's Make Furniture - July 22-26

Join us for a fun week of exploring and talking about how things are made. Campers will create their own piece of furniture - a bench, chair or table - from dowel rods and wooden slats, adding a unique finishing touch with paint. Campers will also learn fun facts about trees and the role of trees in our environment.

Registration is open - find out more here 

Classes are FULL - check about getting on the waiting list!

Summer Youth Work Shops
Murray Art Guild, Murray, KY

June 18 - 20, 2018

Learn the fundamentals of wood turning using a lathe creating mallets for basic shapes and techniques, then onto making projects of your own design to take home.

Ages 8 to 18

Class times - 11:00-12:30 & 1:00-2:30 & 3:00-4:30

Registration now FULL at Murray Art Guild

Penland Kids Camp
Penland School of Crafts

July 2 - 6, 2018

Kids can learn the fundamentals of wood turning. Creating mallets to learn the basic shapes and techniques, then onto making projects of their own design to take home.

Two classes each day - ages 8 to 12 and 13 to 16

 SIGN Up at Penland School of Crafts

Classes are both FULL but you can still sign up for the waiting list

Summer Camp @ Sprocket

Makerspace, Coke Plant

July 9 - 11, 2018   9:00 - 12:00 & 1:00 - 4:00

In this class, we will learn the fundamentals of woodturning by creating mallets to learn basic shapes. Each camper will get to design their own project and practice turning legs, including wedging through mortise & tenon joints to make their very own stool.

Registration FULL with Sprocket

Ages 7 - 12  Woodturning morning

Ages 13 - 18  Woodturning afternoon

For more information about Sprocket goto Sprocket, Inc., Paducah, KY