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Nothing beats a handmade gift, and these books show how to create the kinds of toys that have delighted children for generations. They also feature simple projects for introducing kids to the pleasures of woodworking.
Recommendations... Making Wooden Toys: 12 Easy-to-Do Projects with Full-Size Templates
by James T. Stasio
Diagrams, photos, and templates for 12 simple, sturdy wooden toys. Freight train, doll cradle, cargo ships, helicopter, biplane, circus animals and acrobats, and more. Full-size templates, diagrams, and photographs. No power tools needed.
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| |  Easy Carpentry Projects for Children
by Jerome E. Leavitt
Teaches boys and girls age 7 and up basic carpentry skills through easy-to-make projects: bird feeder, sailboat, tie rack, flower box, and 11 more. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations.
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Products in Toys and Other Projects | | |  | 25 Kites That Fly
by Leslie Hunt
Detailed instructions for creating standard two-stick kites, six-point stars, figural kites, balloon kites, tetrahedral kites, box kites, and many other varieties. Includes directions for making tails, reeling and stringing, and much more. 70 illustrations.
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|  | Boomerangs: How to Make and Throw Them
by Bernard S. Mason
Outstanding primer combines native methods and author's new designs — all safe and easy to make and throw. Includes cross-stick boomerangs from 14 inches to 3 feet, pinwheel boomerangs, bird- and airplane-shaped boomerangs, and more.
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|  | Build Your Own Inexpensive Dollhouse
by E. J. Tangerman
With 1 sheet of 4 x 8 plywood, home tools, and this book, you can build a 6-room, 36 x 13 x 26 dollhouse. No great skill needed. Over 40 diagrams and photographs.
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| | Easy Carpentry Projects for Children
by Jerome E. Leavitt
Teaches boys and girls age 7 and up basic carpentry skills through easy-to-make projects: bird feeder, sailboat, tie rack, flower box, and 11 more. Over 100 black-and-white illustrations.
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| |  | Easy-to-Make Old-Fashioned Toys
by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.
Clear instructions and illustrations show youngsters and adults how to create 38 delightful novelties: jumping jack, kaleidoscope, boomerang, pinwheel, parachute, bubble blowers, and much more.
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|  | Kites for Everyone: How to Make and Fly Them
by Margaret Greger
Easy-to-follow illustrated instructions show how to create more than 50 awesome, airborne objects — everything from simple bag kites to Vietnamese, Snake, Dutch, Dragon, Bullet, Delta, and Flowform flyers.
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| | Making Wooden Toys: 12 Easy-to-Do Projects with Full-Size Templates
by James T. Stasio
Diagrams, photos, and templates for 12 simple, sturdy wooden toys. Freight train, doll cradle, cargo ships, helicopter, biplane, circus animals and acrobats, and more. Full-size templates, diagrams, and photographs. No power tools needed.
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