Woodwork

All the space in the Children’s Embassy is made of natural solid wood. A lot of toys are carved by hand, even there are wooden dishes. Therefore, from the age of 3.5 – 4 years, children learn to use a hammer, saw, pliers, nails of different sizes. Educating these skills is held through practical activities for the production of useful objects for the house.

Work with different tree species presents certain difficulties, much larger than, for example, working with paper or cardboard. It requires the child to make physical effort, but precisely because of this the child develops perseverance, concentration, endurance and will. This work is attractive by the fact that it looks like in the eyes of a child more than any other, in the present case; this is not the work of make-believe. The children understand that they are doing this, a solid thing you can use in the game, at home, give parents, friends, kids. Helping adults in the street to repair the equipment area and master new facilities, they see the reality of their work. This awareness gives them great satisfaction, motivates to do the work in good faith, carefully, to show their ingenuity, and design abilities.

In the Children’s Embassy it is equipped a special workshop with the small table to work, racks for materials and semi-finished products. Every adult child has a special box with a full set of individual tools. Working with wood is not organized with the entire group and in pairs, because the work often requires mutual (to hold the board, apply glue, and so on).

Through the work with wood children develop the ability to set a goal and to plan an elementary process of work, rationally to use the material and to choose reasonable methods of work. They have developed relative dexterity, accuracy and speed of action, accuracy of eye estimation, ability to adapt the material on their own, to find a way out of the predicament. All of this opens up new opportunities for the development of the beginnings of their further creative activities.