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Southland Woodworkers Guild president Kevin Gerrard said members have spent hours putting together kitset toys the children can make when they attend Kidzone Festival.
Members of the Southland Woodworkers Guild have been busy preparing for this year’s Kidzone Festival.
President Kevin Gerrard said for the past six years guild members had been making kitset toys, that children attending the festival then put together.
Gerrard said members, who range in age from 20 to 93, had made 2000 kitset toys, with one member clocking up 120 hours of work on the toys, which include catapults, boats and birds.
The woodworkers would be on hand during the festival, which runs from July 5 to 10 at Southland Girls’ High School, to help the children put the toys together, Gerrard said.
As well as the kitset toys, the festival will be packed with hundreds of hands-on activities, rides and experiences for kids during the school holidays.