Drawknife With the Children

We haven't yet moved on to our next project since making the shave horse, but I have found my drawknife and decided it would be a good tool they could use safely. 

We went into our coppice and picked a willow to take a branch from. Quite nice as the girls helped plant these trees five years ago. 

 We used a Froe to cleave the wood into two halves. 

I had to make an alteration to the shave horse to account for shorter legs with some higher pegs for them to push their feet against. 

Both girls really enjoyed it, although not sure they ever dress for the job in hand! 

It was good to let them just play with the bit of wood and get experience using the tool, I hope that once they get to grips with it we'll be able to do a bit more, maybe some gypsy flowers or other simple projects. 

They could do with a smaller drawknife though and this is something I might invest in for them. 

What project do you think I should get them making?