The aim of this project was to build the capacity of DCU/IOE staff across early childhood and primary education to use woodwork as a sustainable STEAM practice. Woodworking with young children has an illustrious past but has fallen out of favour in recent times. Its adoption can counteract the current culture of “consume and dispose” by developing an understanding of the value of making and repairing. The project enabled DCU staff, students and wider community to understand the benefits of woodworking, the safety considerations and equipment requirements and how to source suitable free materials that would otherwise be discarded. In addition, the project aimed to support DCU staff and students to gain a practical understanding of woodworking; provide students the opportunity to apply their woodwork skills in placement, further disseminating ideas pertaining to woodwork for sustainability; and adopt woodworking practices across modules in undergraduate programmes in the IOE