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Welcome to Lowe’s series, Family Fun Projects. These are instructional videos that will help your children learn through building on projects that they can enjoy. Build a super-easy, sturdy tree swing with your child using hardwood and rope available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: tying knots, sanding, clamping, cutting with a Japanese-style hand saw. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
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Build a super-easy, sturdy tree swing with your child using hardwood and rope available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: tying knots, sanding, clamping, cutting with a Japanese-style hand saw. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Make an old-fashioned tree swing with your children
Build an extremely sturdy, kid-sized workbench with your child, complete with a storage shelf for tools and supplies! Basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: using a cordless drill to drive screws, sanding, finishing, clamping, cutting with a Japanese-style hand saw. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Make a junior-sized workbench with your children
Build an easy message centre for the whole family to use! This magnetic note surface is also a bulletin board and a chalkboard. Build it with your kids using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: using a cordless drill to drive screws, clamping, gluing, sanding, painting, cutting trim with a Japanese-style hand saw and a mitre box. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Make a family message board with your children
Build a simple, beautiful birdfeeder and customize it with your kids using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: clamping, painting, drilling and driving, gluing, cutting with a Japanese-style pull saw. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build an easy bird feeder with your children
Craft a very quick, simple loom using a single board and screws. Your kids will love weaving colourful projects with scraps of cloth or yarn! Use basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: measuring, marking, driving screws with a small cordless drill, cutting wood with a Japanese-style hand saw - and, of course, weaving!. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Make a kid's loom with your children
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Build an easy, vintage-style chalkboard with your child! Use paint and unsanded grout powder to create chalkboard paint in any colour you like, then complete this classic chalkboard with basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a chalkboard with your children
Build an easy mirror and decorate it with decoupaged fabric squares using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Make a decoupage mirror with your children
An easy, customizable do-it-yourself growth chart made from a single pine board. Lots of fun to make with sandy beaches, miniature rock walls and magnetized toy cars that measure height by sliding on a metal measuring tape! Use basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a growth chart with your children
Build an easy, classic puppet theatre with your child, complete with marquee and lighting! Use basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a puppet theatre with your children
Build a lightning-fast step stool in your choice of heights using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's! Skills kids learn: 3D assembly, using a cordless drill. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a step stool with your children
Make colourful blocks with your child using favourite photos and basic tools available at Lowe's. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Make colourful blocks with your children photos
Build an indoor/outdoor beanbag toss game with your child using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a beanbag toss game with your children
Make a decoupaged lap desk with your child using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Make a lap desk with your children
Build a quick, easy junior-size (52"x36") net for hockey or soccer practice using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: 3D assembly, using a cordless drill. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a hockey net out of PVC pipe with your children
Make a decoupaged lap desk with your child using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Make bedroom door signs with your children
Store favourite books in this easy-to-make book sling built with basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: fabric printing, using a cordless drill, clamping. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a book sling with your children
Build a beautiful indoor/outdoor fort for kids using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: 3D assembly, painting, gluing. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a princess castle with your children
If you've got a budding artist in your family, build this easy, fast art table with an endless supply of paper, built in drawers and a great design that converts easily to a study desk when needed. Skills kids learn: using a cordless drill, sanding, gluing, edge-banding, furniture assembly. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build an art table with your children
Make quick, portable camp stools using basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Skills kids learn: 3D assembly, fastening. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a PVC Camp Stool with your children
Build a chalkboard table with your child! Use leftover paint and unsanded grout powder to create chalkboard paint in any colour you like, then complete this table with basic tools and materials available at Lowe's. Enjoy the videos then download our free plans.
Build a chalkboard table with your children
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