The Ludoland Experience
Exemples of projects made by kids
Our Program
The Ludoland Experience is a woodworking journey offered to children aged 6 to 14.
The program is especially designed for young students. We only use hand tools and traditional techniques, for a safe and calm environment, and we take the necessary time to walk every participant through safety measures and to accomplish tasks and projects.
Even thought the Ludoland Experience is about woodworking, the impact we strive to get on participants goes far beyond it. As we like to say, we are not training future carpenters or cabinet makers. While building their project, participants will also build their character, during that important time of life childhood is. We are focusing both on craftsmanship and personal growth.
We highly encourage parents of participants to embrace that philosophy. Do not focus too much on the final result when your child comes back home with a project, but instead, reinforce your child self esteem and pride of accomplishing something, and ask question about the process, about what they did well, the mistakes, how they solved it …
We truly believe our experience can change children lives.
WHAT's IMPORTANT IN OUR PROGRAM
SAFETY
Safety is the most important aspect of our experience. It's the key for children to feel confident in using the tools and enjoy their time in the shop. For this reason, we only use hand tools and each participant is walked thru safety rules before using them.
CREATIVITY
Whether working on a pre designed project or a custom one, we always allow students to bring modifications to make it unique. Woodworking is all about being creative and developing an artistic feeling!
PROBLEM SOLVING
One of the most important skills! Woodworking is full of problems and difficulties. With the experience, kids have the keys to solve problems. We let them think by themselves to find the solutions.
Learn, PraCTICE, DO IT YOURSELF
We emphasize the experience on those 3 axis.
- Learning the techniques of the tools we will use.
- Practicing the techniques on scrap pieces of wood. We want participants to feel comfortable with the techniques before starting their project! It takes time and patience, which is amazing virtue.
- DIY! Pride comes with what you do, so we don’t do cuts for kids. It does not matter if the project is perfect or not, the most important is that everything was made from your child’s hands!
CHARACTER BUILDING
Without even realizing it, with that experience, children will build a newer version of themselves. They will build self confidence, self esteem, and will believe more and more in their potential. Pride and positive reinforcement is essential!
MISTAKES
Mistakes are important. We do believe that making mistakes and learning go together. This is misconception of our society that mistakes are bad. They are for us essential, it means you are going out of your comfort zone, trying new things and learning. This is why we encourage kids to try tools, techniques ... and will never shame them for their mistakes
PEACEFUL ATMOSPHERE
Peaceful atmosphere is the key to enjoy the experience. This is why we only work with small group of motivated participants. We also highly encourage participants to help each other. Woodworking is very relaxing and participants can really get into a calm and focusing zone where time is just flying.
OUR CLASSES
GENERAL WOODWORKING
6 to 8 years old
Saturday 9 to 9:45 and/or Tuesday 4:45 to 5:30
$45 + taxes per class (all material included)
9+ years old
Saturday 11 to 12 and/or Tuesday 5:45 to 6:45
$50 + taxes per class (all material included)
Possibility to purchase a 3 months session at a discount price
Or pay per class and get a free class after 10 paid classes
This program is designed for kids to learn skills and techniques to build various projects like shelves, toys, boxes, …
Participants start with easy projects from our bank of project. As they grow skills, they may move to more complex projects and eventually start designing their own.
It usually takes between 4 and 6 classes to complete the first project, but this is just an estimate based on our experience. We encourage kids to work at their rhythm.
We keep work in progress in boxes, no commitment to attend every week! Our program is flexible, you can only pay for the classes attended.
WOODCARVING 101
7+ years old
Saturday 10 to 10:45
$40 + taxes per class (all material included)
Possibility to purchase a 3 months session at a discount price
Or pay per class and get a free class after 10 paid classes
This program is designed for kids to learn how to whittle and carve in a safely manner. Using knives, we can make things like little trees, mushrooms, gnomes, flowers … Participants are also introduced at proper sharpening techniques.
It usually takes 3 to 6 weeks to complete a first carving, but this is just an estimate based on our experience. We encourage kids to work at their rhythm.
We keep work in progress in boxes, no commitment to attend every week! Our program is flexible, you can only pay for the classes attended.
FULL WEEK CAMPS
All ages (Starting at 6)
Christmas break – Winter break – Easter break – Summer holidays
Hours and prices may vary with each break. We usually do 1.5 hours per day.
See our registration schedule for details about each session.
Our camps are intensive classes for kids with the intend to start and finish a project within the week. These classes can be 1.5 or 2 hours per day. This limit is set to keep kids safe as concentration usually drops past 2 hours.
During camps, we have all ages together. As we try to make a project within a limited time frame, it has proven to be beneficial to have older students helping younger ones, especially on the last day. This “community spirit” is very important for us.
Ludoland offers a free trial class if you have a referral.
Any of our clients, whether coming to our classes or purchasing product can be a referral.
Click the link below and fill out the form!
REFUND POLICY
1 – More than 14 days before the booked class or session, a full refund of the registration fee will be issued.
2 – More than 7 days before the booked class or session, a 50% refund of the registration fee will be issued.
3 – Less than 7 days before the booked class or session, refunds are not available.
MISSED CLASS
In the event of student absence, please try to notify us by email.
Ludoland Regina does not offer compensatory classes for absences and/or missed classes that occur due to schedule conflicts, travels, illness etc …
In the event that a class has to be cancelled by Ludoland, either a refund or free make up class will be offered.