Kids Workshops at Home Depot

If you are in search of a unique ‘field trip’ idea, pack up the kids and head to Home Depot. That’s right, Home Depot! These workshops or ‘how-to-clinics’ are held the first Saturday of every month, at all Home Depot locations, between 9am and noon.

Workshops are geared for children, ages 5 through 12. They must be accompanied by an adult, for the duration of their stay. Kid’s who attend will learn basic building skills and the importance of using tools responsibly.

Besides, coming away with their project, attendees will also receive a miniature, orange, Home Depot apron and an achievement pin.

Gatherings such as this play into the social aspects of homeschooling, as well. Your children will have the opportunity to interact with children, local to the area. Who knows, you may even meet other homeschooling families there.

The clinics have been held since 1997. An estimated 12 million projects have been built since that time. That’s a lot of bird houses… almost 600,000 in fact. Not to mention all of the step stools, tool boxes, bug houses, fire trucks, pencil boxes, mail organizers and picture frames and other educational products that have been created.

Depending how crafty your children are, building the project is just the beginning. They can be painted or stained and then embellished in any number of ways. Woodshop and arts and crafts curriculum, all rolled into one.

These workshops are quite popular. Class size can range from 10 to 200. Chain-wide the average number of children who attend each session is 75. If you belong to a local homeschool group, you might want to suggest that several families attend together.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us. ~ Jim Rohn

Home Depot also holds adult oriented workshops, which seem suitable for older children. There are several gardening-related subjects such as creating an organic garden and container gardening. Contact your local store, for further information.

Have you ever attended a Home Depot or any other type of crafty workshop with your child? If so, what did they like best about it? Is it something that they would enjoy doing again? Inquiring minds want to know… it’s time to spill the nails… I mean beans.

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