Building with your kids

The Home Depot and Lowes both have fun and FREE building workshops that you can do with your kids.

The Home Depot does theirs on the First Saturday of every month from 9am to Noon. If you want to see what they're doing ahead of time got to Homedepot.com and search for "kids workshops". We've gotten there as late as 11:30 and still got to make something, but the later you go the more chance that they'll have run out of the original project, but they usually have older ones that you can do. They also give out an apron (you may have to ask for it) and pins (specific to the project) that the kids can collect and display on their aprons. No registration needed.

Lowes does theirs on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays - usually a slightly smaller project than Home Depots but always lots of fun. They only run from 10am until 11am. They too give out aprons, (and goggles - which they get to keep) and when they're done they get a patch (specific to the project) which can be sewn onto the apron. Go to www.lowesbuildandgrow.com to see what's coming up. You can register online but you don't need to but if you do they will send you a reminder a couple of days before the event.