[Woodcarver] Teaching Children to Carve - get a carver

[Bill Smith]

Have u thought about meetin half way from each of u
sometimes there is a park or some place else that u
can go to teach the kid that is an hour away from the
two of you..

WhatI have found that helps me when I am workin with
kids in teaching them the art of woodcarving I have
the first two weeks jst the two of us. As the new
student learns the way to do it then move him into a
group setting this way he or she is not tryin to meet
the other young carver in the group, as I found on
tries to do what the other is doin..

I was teachin my late girlfriend's son to carve and
his sister was learning to sew she keep watching the
two of us carving, had her brother all confussed so
the next time I had him over  by himself n  his sister
come over lator...

Seems to have been the missin clue to what he was
tring to learn and being able to see what I was
doing.. Others  students I have taught have also learn
faster this way..

Bill


--- Merrilee Johnson <merrihat at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> >  So I thought I would post both the question and
> >my reply for feedback from those of you on the
> digest that do teach
> >kids.  Any ideas or suggestions would be fantastic.
> >>>
> 
> 
> Great response to the mother, Susan.
> The only thing I could add is to find a local
> carving club and someone 
> interested to help get her started.  As you said the
> books are geared to the 
> older carver and getting the knife in the right
> postition to "bite" into the 
> wood is hard to see in a printed form.
> 
> I have 3 kids I am working with.  One girl (16) has
> been carving with me for 
> 3 years, 1 boy(now 12) started last year and a new
> boy (probably 11 or 12 
> but both boys are in 7th grade).  The last one is
> having problems seeing how 
> to hold the knives and gouges that the other two
> didn't have.  So the muscel 
> control  and hand eye coordination is something an
> experienced carver could 
> help work with her on how to and talk to her to get
> her to "see" what she 
> want to do that a book couldn't do.  There is also a
> 10 year old that wants 
> to carve about an hour away from me that I want to
> help get started too but 
> the drive for either of us is long so that one may
> not work or may will 
> happen this summer. (fingers crossed)   Getting the
> kids interested in 
> creative outlets is the best thing for them - as
> we've talked about before!  
> ANd us adults that can help need too - even if it is
> time consuming and 
> frustrating for us.  (the new boy is more
> frustrating than the other 2 were 
> but I think he's beginning to "get it"  This week he
> finished a small 
> project he's been working on for about 5 weeks and
> the other boy finished in 
> 2).  So now he's on his way to becoming a woodcarver
> too!  That makes me 
> feel great that I could help!
> 
> Anyways back to your question - find an experienced
> carver to help one on 
> one.  That's my suggestion.
> Merrilee
> 
>
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