How to Make a Crossbow Out of Wood
How to Make a Crossbow Out of Wood – In making of this crossbow it is best to use maple for the stock, but if this wood cannot be procured, good straight-grained pine will do. The material must be 1-1/2…
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How to Make a Water Bike
How to Make a Water Bike - Water bicycles afford fine sport, and, like many another device boys make, can be made of material often cast off by their...
How to Make a Miniature Windmill
The following description is how a miniature windmill was made, which gave considerable power for its size, even in a light breeze. Its smaller parts, such as blades and pulleys, were constructed of 1-in. sugar pine on account of its…
How to Make a Gymnastics Bar – Parallel Bars
Parallel bars hold a high place in the affection of those who frequent gymnasiums as the best apparatus for development of the back and shoulder muscles, as well as a promoter of ease and grace of movement. The outdoor “gym”…
How to Make a Gymnastics Bar – The Horizontal Bar
How to Make a Gymnastics Bar – Gymnastic apparatus costs money and needs to be housed, because it will not stand the weather. Gymnasiums are not always available for the average boy who likes exercise and who would like to…
Humane Rat Trap – How to Make a Rat Trap
How to Make a Rat Trap – A boy, while playing in the yard close to a grain house, dug a hole and buried an old-fashioned fruit jug or jar that his mother had thrown away, says the Iowa Homestead.…
How to Set a Sundial
The sundial is an instrument for measuring time by using the shadow of the sun. Sundials were quite common in ancient times before clocks and watches were invented.
Caning Chairs – How to Cane a Chair
How to Cane a Chair – There are but few households that do not have at least one or two chairs without a seat or back. The same households may have some one who would enjoy re-caning the chairs if…
How to Make a Rabbit Trap
A good serviceable rabbit trap can be made by sinking a common dry goods box in the ground to within 6 in. of its top. A hole 6 or 7 in. square is cut in each end level with the…
How to Make a Paper Balloon – Easy Science Projects
Balloons made spherical, or designed after the regular aeronaut’s hot-air balloon, are the best kind to make. Those having an odd or unusual shape will not make good ascensions, and in most cases the paper will catch fire from the…