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Greg,
You’re not wrong about competing with X-box etc. My son is always on the blasted thing. The funny thing is he mostly plays Minecraft which I reckon is just digital Lego. 😉
I got him to do some woodwork by first doing a Pepakura project with him (http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/download/viewer.html). We made a Halo character helmet for him – there’s lots of projects you can download and make. I snuck in all sorts of extra learning for him to do: moulding, casting, working with resins and of course, the final product needed a stand to go on which we made out of Wood. This lead on to making a model Viking ship and a replica Roman dagger. He’s now researching so we can draw up plans for a Luigi Poltergeist 5000 (a sort of Mario version of Ghostbusters). This is leading to him starting to take an interest in what I do in the workshop at the weekends. Maybe there’s something similar that might spark your boys interest.