Building wood toys is a classic hobby. This step-by-step wood and wire maze design builds easy wooden toys to make for gifts. Toward the end of the first year of life, a child climbs up on two feet ...

Looking for handmade toy ideas? Build homemade toddler toys using scrap wood to make simple toys for toddlers that last forever. Carefully crafted handmade toys can become family heirlooms passed from ...

Greg White and his daughter Tracey Nelson in their Watauga workshop where they build small decorative barns from reclaimed lumber, photographed November 28, 2012. The wood-planked barns reflect ...

Christmas may be a few months away, but there is one man in Gilbert working to build handmade, wooden toys by the holidays. “I still believe there is a place for heirloom toys,” said John Shepard, a ...

Discover how to build a CO2-powered wooden toy boat from scratch in this step-by-step guide. Learn about buoyancy and ...

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Skip the flimsy stuff. These DIY wooden ride-on toys are sturdy, fun to build, and your kids will actually enjoy playing with them. Free plans make it easy. I built this DIY Outdoor Riding Toy for ...

Ten years ago, when people came into the Toy Chest in Nashville, Indiana, they would often gravitate toward loud, bright toys and ignore the quieter ones. Back then, “I would get a lot more, ‘Oh, no, ...

Most plastics are based on petroleum. A bio-plastic that consists of one hundred percent renewable raw materials helps to conserve this resource. Researchers have now optimized the plastic in such a ...

Want to find common ground between a flag-waving American exceptionalist and a baby-wearing eco-conscious hipster? Take them to the toy store. They'll both rejoice at every "Made in the USA" label ...