The Clubhouse Project: Impact on Childrens' Lives at Home

At Christmas time children requested tools for Christmas---hammers, saws, and tool belts. All children who did not have tools received them for Christmas. Birthday party presents became tools--different kinds of measuring tapes and hammers were most popular. Luke was first to receive work gloves. By spring, some of the other children brought batting gloves and gardening gloves to use while working. Jacob concluded that a batting glove would work well with a hammer because bats and hammers are both made of wood. The children developed 'tool preferences'-- hammers with wooden handles and large heads. They now knew the value and qualities of a good hammer. 

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Last revised: February 18, 1997