DIY Jack-in-the-Box Toy (For Kids) 🧒 Age Group 6–10 years (adult help recommended for cutting) 🧰 Materials Needed Empty tissue box or small cardboard box with a lid Paper cup or toilet paper roll Spring (from an old pen) or…
The metal furniture which you can buy is very pretty when it is new, but this new appearance does not last long after it has come into a youngster’s possession, for the pieces are very slender and delicate, and thus…
A Homemade Toy Stable – If you prefer a garage instead of this stable, you may omit the stalls, and make one or two large windows in the rear wall in place of the small high windows shown. Fig.…
How to Make a Wooden Doll House – There is nothing more interesting to build than a doll-house, and the construction is within the ability of the average girl. If brother is willing to lend a hand with the carpenter…
This interesting toy, with its funny animal targets, and a harmless pistol with which to shoot at them, will provide an endless amount of fun for a winter’s evening or stormy afternoon. Excerpt from: HOME-MADE TOYS FOR GIRLS AND…
A Cricket-rattle is about the liveliest form of rattle ever devised (Fig. 114). After constructing one for your sister or brother, you probably will decide to make one for yourself. Fig. 114.—Whirling the Cricket-rattle makes it chirp. For this…
A Toy Jumping-Jack is always amusing, and Fig. 110 shows a simply constructed home-made model. You will see by Fig. 113 how the figure is made. The peaked hat is half a spool tapered down from the end to the…
Wooden Toy Plans – The Clog-dancer (Fig. 109) is an easily made loose-jointed doll. His dancing-stage is a shingle or piece of stiff cardboard held on the edge of a chair beneath your knee. – – – HOME-MADE TOYS FOR…
How to Make a Whirligig – Excerpt from: HOME-MADE TOYS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS BOOKS BY A. NEELY HALL / LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO., BOSTON Published, August, 1915 – – – A Buzz-saw Whirligig is an interesting toy (Fig.…
The elevator shown in Fig. 96 is a unique mechanical toy well worth one’s making. Release the little car at the top floor, and it will descend to the ground floor, and then return to the starting point, without you…