Toy-Making at Home: How to Make a Hundred Toys from Odds and Ends

by Morley Adams

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ΤΟΥ-ΜΑKING
AT HOME

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HOW TO MAKE A HUNDRED ΤΟΥS
FROM ODDS AND ENDS

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BY MORLEY ADAMS

NEW YORK: FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

TOY-MAKING AT HOME

ΤΟΥ-ΜAKING
AT HOME

HOW TO MAKE A HUNDRED
TOYS FROM ODDS AND ENDS

 

by

MORLEY ADAMS

 

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Printed in Great Britain.

PREFACE

This work has been compiled with the assistance of Mr. Walter Higgins, the well-known instructor in woodwork.

The volume fulfils a long-felt want in that it supplies fascinating amusement for evenings at home. The making of toys is an engrossing pastime, and the home-made toy is invariably more novel than the shop-bought article and of superior quality, besides which there is always a satisfaction in “I made it myself.”

The purpose of the book is to give simple and easily understood instructions and plain diagrams and sketches for making toys from the odds and ends that are usually discarded as useless. Matches, Match Boxes, Cotton Reels, Cocoa Tins, Cigar Boxes, and even Egg Shells comprise the materials from which are evolved Shops, Working Models, Dolls’ Furniture, Boats, Steam Engines, Windmills, and scores of other toys dear to the hearts of boys and girls.

Perhaps the chief charm of the occupation is that literally dozens of toys can be made at a cost of less than a penny. Every toy described in this book is practicable, and can be easily made by anyone possessing the smallest amount of handicraft skill. At the same time the instructions are such as will prove of the utmost value to instructors of handicraft classes.

MORLEY ADAMS.

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Toy-Making at Home: Toys from Odds and Ends
• Paper Windmills
• Colour Wheel
• A Simple Counting Top
• Tents for Toy Soldiers
• The Helmet
• The Breastplate
• A War Game
• Toy Cannon
• Making Pictures with Matches and Models from Match Sticks
• Novel Match Striker
• Railway Truck
• Tram Car
• Model Stores
• A Red-Cross Cart and a Maxim Gun
• A Step Bridge
• A Doll’s Umbrella Stand
• A Doll’s Fender
• Chess Men
• Skittle Men
• A Catapult Game
• Ring-board through to The Windlass
• A Doll’s Cradle through to A Jack-in-the-Box
• The Jig-saw Puzzle
• Geometrical Puzzle
• The Reels and String Puzzle
• The Three-hole Puzzle
• A Model Signal
• Weather House
• The Marble Board
• A Wooden Wind Wheel and How to use the Wind Power Machine
• A Roundabout
• Fairy Light Wheel
• A Pair of Scales
• A Sand-power Engine
• A Rotating Snake
• A Tin-can Steam Roller
• A Working Motor Boat
• A Steamboat
• Another Working Steamboat
• Japanese Wind Bells
• A Musical Box
• A Fleet of Nutshell Boats
• The Jumping Frog
• An Egg-shell Yacht
• A Money Box
• A Pin-hole Camera
• A Doll’s Easy Chair