Children Toy-Making How to Teach Kids Make Toys Book CD

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315 Pages

The Art of Children's Toy-Making

This book is an introduction to the art of making toys by children, and of making the most of simple tools and simple materials. The purpose of the book is to encourage children not only to copy but also to create, or at any rate to copy not only from the book but from the world around them.

Dolls' houses and furniture, railways, boats and other vehicles offer endless possibilities of original and attractive design; and mechanical toys, whether driven by wind, water, elastic or the works of an old clock, offer an equally wide field for invention. At a later age girls will no doubt be ambitious to devise useful articles for the home, while boys may become interested in engineering and electrical models, optical toys, etc.; the deftness of hand, acquaintance with elementary principles, and self-confidence acquired through the simple work described in this book, should stand them in good stead.

"Self-reliance and ingenuity are valuable assets with which to start upon the more serious tasks of life, and if our-hints on toy-making contribute in any way to the development of these qualities, this book will not have been written in vain", said the author.

Please note: This excellent PDF Reprint is a high-quality, electronic facsimile version of the actual book published in 1910s.

Contents Covered

Introduction
Toys for Little Ones: Paper and Cardboard
Toy-making and its Educational Possibilities
General Principles and Materials
Paper Work for Infants
More Paper Toys
Match-box Toys
More Complicated Match-box and Cork Toys
Cork Animals Harnessed to Sledges, etc
More Core Toys
Cardboard and Paper Ships
Cardboard and Paper Toys
Simple Woodwork
Materials
Some Difficulties in Toy-making
Merry-go-round, Swinging Boats, and Great Wheel
Flying Airships, Gondolas, and Steam-roller
Fire-engine, Motor-lorry, and Steam-roller
Gipsy Caravan and Bathing Machine
A Train and Railway Station
Red Cross Motor and Taxi-cab
Swinging and Jointed Animals
Toys of Cardboard and Wood: Mechanical Toys
Additional Tools
Capstan, Dreadnought, Liner
Motor-car, Swinging Cradle, Deck-chair
A Tram-car
A Crane
Windmill, Water-wheel, Well
Drawbridge and Siege Tower
War Engines Past and Present
A Fire-escape
Castle, Tournament, and Fir
An Old Chariot and Some Quaint Dolls' Furniture
Railway Signal and Signal-box
Lighthouse, Transporter Bridge
Yachts and Boats: The Use of the Chisel
The Fret-saw
Little Gymnast, Dancing Clown, Rocking Animals
Moving Figures
Some Old-fashioned Toys
Little Swordsmen
Some More Fret-saw Toys
Toys Worked by Sand
Toys Worked by Wheels, etc
Kites, Gliders, and Aeroplanes
More Old-fashioned Toys
Lift, Pont Roulant, Tower Bridge
Soldering and Screw Steamer
Toys Worked by Wind and by Convection Currents
Buildings at Home and Abroad
A Theatre

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