Educon.
Education in Construction - Carpentry & Joinery
Workshop Fun!
In this section you can find Competition activity packs for those days when you need a lesson!
They are designed to incorporate all the skills learned thus far and go great with prizes!.
4 Joint Relay Frame.
The aim of the 4‑Joint Frame Relay is to push learners beyond routine workshop tasks and challenge them to apply their developing carpentry and joinery skills in a coordinated, high‑accuracy team project. This activity is designed to strengthen precision, confidence, and craftsmanship by requiring each learner to take full responsibility for producing one high‑quality joint that must integrate seamlessly into a shared frame.
The Japanese Art of Tsugite.
The aim of this activity is to challenge learners to apply precision, patience, and advanced hand‑tool skills by constructing a traditional Japanese tsugite joint. This task pushes learners beyond standard UK joinery joints, encouraging them to explore global craftsmanship, develop fine motor accuracy, and demonstrate professional behaviours under controlled time pressure.
T or Tee?
The aim of this activity is to challenge learners to correctly identify, name, and construct two commonly confused wood joints — one familiar and one unfamiliar — while developing precision, accuracy, and deeper technical understanding. The competition highlights the importance of correct terminology in joinery and encourages learners to refine their practical skills through hands‑on construction.
Leg-endary Battle of the Reduced Haunch!
The Leg‑endary Joinery Challenge throws learners into the world of high‑precision furniture making, where only the sharpest minds and sharpest chisels survive. This isn’t your everyday mortise and tenon — this is the reduced haunched, mitred, shoulder‑stacked, geometry‑loving, brain‑twisting table‑leg joint that separates the apprentices from the artisans.