Does your child want to learn woodworking? Let the Woodworking Bus teach them how! On-site Fall 2010 classes registering now, to be held at Side Street Projects’ mobile headquarters (730 North Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena).
6 Week Sessions, $195 Per Child
All Materials Included
To register, please call Side Street at 626-798-7774
(M – F, 10am – 5pm)
These are solar-powered contraptions designed and built by 3rd grade students in Los Angeles aboard Side Street Projects’ Woodworking Bus. Students were shown examples of historical & contemporary kinetic/contraption art, including Jean Tinguley, Alexander Calder, Tim Hawkinson, and Martin Kersels. The following footage is from the “group show” the students put on for their families and classmates.
The following are examples of student-designed projects built aboard Side Street Project’s Woodworking Buses — mobile wood shops aboard renovated transit buses where kids age 5-11 learn about art & design using only hand tools, raw materials, and their imagination. These are not “woodworking kits” mind you, these are unique designs that kids envisioned and fabricated by themselves from raw pine stock.
Still can’t get over that this is even possible… we just milled this semester’s worth of lumber for the Woodworking Bus courtesy of that big yellow thing in the sky (and 12 panels and 4 batteries). For those of you not in the Pasadena area today… it be hot, like really hot. Somehow, we managed to run the AC and the table saw simultaneously. I think we’re breaking some laws of physics here or something. All in a day’s work @ Side Street Projects. See for yourself:
