A Toy Jumping-Jack is always amusing, and the figure 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…
Homemade Boats for Kids – The toy motor-boat shown in Figs. 48 and 49 is propelled by a tin propeller run by a rubber-band motor. A handful of rubber-bands will cost only a few cents, and the rest of the…
The Eight-blade Windmill in Fig. 9 has a spool hub (Fig. 10), and blades made of cigar-box wood, shingles, tin, or cardboard (Fig. 11). Fig. 9.—An Eight-blade Windmill. You will see by Figs. 10 and 11 that the blades are…
The Four-blade Windmill shown in Fig. 6 has a hub 4 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick (Fig. 7).