For the past two months, like many others our family has been staying close to home. Both my wife and I have been working from home. The schools are closed, so we’ve also been trying to homeschool our kids. Despite my career choice, I would rather learn by doing, and work with my hands, so I can’t blame my kids when video classes and homework assignments for Dad don’t hold much of their attention. But we have been trying to do some of our own projects as well, ones that let my kids learn and practice new skills and connect us to nature in different ways. Three of the projects that we did were to build a compost bin, make wooden mallets, and build a bench for the neighborhood.
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