I have my 7 year old son helping me cut parts and gluing some on my planes. He also gets to go with to the lake and watch. This summer he has a trainer to learn on and we built it too! I hope some of my making balsa dust rubs off on him but you never know. I never force him to do any thing ,if he knows i am not upstairs he finds me in my work shop and asks if he could do anything. Iam keeping my fingers crossed. joe