Category: Life Skills
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Woodwork Class: Created A Star
One of my voluntary interests has been helping to establish a wood workshop for the Gallatown community in Kirkcaldy. My first project to get warmed up was the creation of a star which is fairly simple but enough to test our setup and think about the fundamentals of leading woodwork classes with children in mind. […]
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Greenhouse for Pathhead Primary School
Pathhead Primary were awarded funds from the ASDA Foundation Grants. They intended to invest the money in their courtyard type area by adding a greenhouse and raised beds for planting in. My name was raised in the early discussions and I was approached as a volunteer to choose and build the greenhouse. This was done […]
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Fence turned into planters
Storm Ryan took a six foot fence down! The fence was becoming an eyesore for our space in the Gallatown, Kirkcaldy. Over about ten hours, the fence was taken down, every second post cut to make space for planters, all of it was dismantled used a pallet tool and five planters built. I built them […]
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Washing Machine Fault – An excuse to remove screws from something!
The average person has never seen inside their household electrical’s and unless they are like me, they never will. In a way that’s a shame because we are surrounded by technology…so why not understand it a little more by removing some screws?! When I begin removing screws from an appliance (that should be unplugged…hint) I […]