Saint Exupéry's plane - DIY kit

Manufacture en famille

Summary

Saint Exupéry airplane - build it yourself

We've fallen in love with this ultra-retro biplane, created in collaboration with the Succession Antoine de Saint Exupéry. This do-it-yourself kit will introduce your child to woodworking, just like a budding craftsman! It's a wonderful introduction to work well done, to real DIY, to organizing your work and to the immense satisfaction you feel when the object takes shape. Once assembled, the airplane can be painted to suit the whims of its new owner :)

Thanks to this DIY kit, your child will learn how to saw, sand, glue, screw, peg, plane, join and key!

Description

Age :

From age 6

Plane length :

27cm approx.

Time to complete (excluding painting) :

1 hour approx.

Material :

Birch plywood

Components supplied:

pictorial instructions for building the plane
Two pre-cut wooden boards with each part of the plane to detach
Threaded rod for axle
Wheels, nuts - cap nuts to secure them
Wooden ball for pilot's head
Dowels
Screw to secure propeller
Wooden axles to secure the wings
Pictorial instructions for building the saw
Saw blade - to be used in the presence of an adult
Colored cord for saw handle (2m)
A sheet of sandpaper
A pot of child-friendly wood glue
Two small wrenches

Safety instructions:

Not suitable for children under three - Use under adult supervision - Small parts. Choking hazard - Long rope. Strangulation hazard - Presence of functional cutting edges. Risk of injury.