Eden Prairie Community Education

Every {YEL!} class and summer camp has these three elements in it: Teach It! Practice It! Play It! In the {YEL!} Woodworking Summer Camp they are:

Teach It! – Our instructors show students the proper way to measure, mark, cut and fix the wood.

Practice It! – Students are often given extra pieces of wood to practice hammering, screwing, cutting, or painting. They can practice before they actually cut or paint their own project.

Play It! – In woodworking, we consider the building portion of class to be the Play It! portion of the camp. The students get to be woodsmiths, personalizing each project, and showcasing their projects at home.

In addition to making projects with our guided instructions, accelerated woodsmiths have opportunities to make their project their own by: adding extra pegs to the baseball holder, designing their own topper for the keepsake box, painting their baseball and bat holder their favorite team colors, or any creative way to personalize their projects they can come up. What will they come up with this year?
Safety is of prime importance in our woodworking summer camps. All students wear protective eyewear when cutting, hammering or painting. All students wear gloves when handling the wood. All students learn the proper way to hold a saw, hammer a nail or handle a hand-operated screw gun. Students do not use power tools in our woodworking classes.