Elementary woodworking projects

This book is intended for use in the upper grammar grades where bench work in wood is first introduced to the pupils. The aim has been to present a collection of working drawings of useful projects that are suitable for beginners of the age found in these grades. Not all of the projects can be called "new," but all have been successfully worked out at the bench by grammar grade pupils. The writer wishes this to be recognized as a collection of drawings, not a course or series.
 

No effort has been made to present a sequence of projects or exercises. That is the job of the individual teacher. He should be the best judge of what will lead his pupils to do their best work. He should be capable of selecting the project that involves such exercises in woodworking as his pupils are prepared to do in a
 
workmanlike manner.

It is not the intention that the notes that accompany each working drawing are to be substituted for the usual demonstration and instruction by the teacher. While in most cases the notes outline the steps to be taken, their purpose is to be helpful, to clinch the teacher's demonstration and instruction, and to stimulate the pupil to do a little planning and thinking for himself. Nearly every project even those most simple in character offer possibilities for modification by the pupil without upsetting the teacher's plan of presentation of the technical part of the work.