CUBS wood work challange

For anyone part of a cubs group and want a DIY challenge , I would suggest a set of bookends. There are a couple of pre-requisites like ensure the sharp and dangerous things are supervised and can only be accessed by one cub at a time. We had a lot of extra help when we did this. One of the helpers did a great health and safety briefing which I think really ensured no one got hurt.

 Suggested tools for making project are :-

1. Workbench 4 cubs per bench
2. Cordless drill with screw driver bit
3. Screws
4. Wood preferably cut to provide two bookends to then be cut by the cub
5. Protection gloves and goggles
6. Saws
7. Carpenters square
8. Ruler or measure tape
9. Wood glue
10. Mitree box but be prepared for it not to last after the session
11. Table for marking out
12. Sand paper
13. Pencil
14. Quick Grips Really good to hold things down
15. Old bit of wood to drill into instead of work bench or floor
16. Print multiple copies of plan(below) and have a built one for the cubs to see

We structured the session with :-

1. Safety briefing
2. What were going to make
3. Marking out the wood
4. Cuts .
5. Suggest smaller saws like silky pocket boy or a mitre box
6. Markings out the holes
7. Drill
8. Assemble

I also suggest you split the pack so that some are going through what each tool does otherwise you will be swamped.  Your probably wondering what size wood, well it depends on what you can get most. I didn't put measuresments so you can adjust accordingly we did 130 mm for each segment so each cub got two planks of 390 mm  (22mm thick x 100 mm wide x 390 mm long) to then divide into three sections. Here are the plans below have fun.