Our friend Olga, an ex-Waldorf parent, gave us this beautiful wooden fort with 24 wooden soldiers that had been used by her now grown up children. That was 8 years ago and it has been a favorite plaything with our kindergarten-age children. It has recently been showing signs of wear and tear from the vigorous play of the children and attacks from voracious wood-eating termites here in the Amazon jungle region of Peru. I repaired one of the damaged towers and the rotten floor, but what to do about the garrison of soldiers that had mysteriously been reduced from 24 to 5?
I decided to make new soldiers on my wood-lathe.
Here I am turning the bodies of the new personnel:
I also turned shields on the lathe, made arms and a carved sword. Here are the first soldiers of the emerging battalion:
