Each year, with a little magical sawdust, Laurie Howard’s shop class at Hoquiam High School transforms into Santa’s Workshop.
Starting at 3 p.m Tuesday, Dec 16, until 9 p.m. that night students wore Santa hats, ate pizza and filled the shop class with gifting merriment.
“I get to build cool and pretty creations,” says Karen Mudd, a senior who was getting ready to put a piece of purple heart wood through the sander. “This makes me a little nervous because it is expensive wood,” she said while preparing the background for a scroll saw cut giraffe and an old fashioned car for her sister and her grandmother.
“So many kids wanted to make Christmas gifts and (each year) they would run out of time. I would be here Saturday and Sundays so kids could finish their projects.” said Howard who has been doing the once-before-Christmas break, late-night event for about 7-8 years, she said.
Devin Burns, a 9th grader, who was turning a pen out of red heart wood for his mom, on a lathe, said the best thing about the workshop is “the teacher.” And what he likes best about shop class is, “her attitude.”
Ryan Asbury, a junior who was painting a pink Holstein toy box for his one-year-old niece said about shop class, “it’s not really school. You get to build stuff you want and Ms. Howard always says, ’you can do it if you can,’” he said.
Howard says her goal is to experiment with stuff, “when it is done, I want the students to ask, ‘How’d you make that?’ It’s all fun stuff.”
Camden Anderson, a senior says he enjoys, “the creativity that stays within.” and says the biggest project they have done was the set for Zombie Prom.
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