toy making

"Explores all aspects of toy creation, using many types of materials. Mold, glue, and design as you create moveable clay action figures, a Barbie adventure case, creative found-object creatures, and more."--Back cover.

Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.

Provides illustrated step-by-step instructions for five devices to use for target shooting.

This title provides children with a fun introduction to making models using origami and papercraft. The book offers easy projects as well as open-ended questions to allow paper-folders to continue their skill building in new directions. Clear instructions and step-by-step illustrated instructions are included to ensure success for young artists.

Readers learn about the process of manufacturing toys and the materials that are used. Environmental issues and working conditions are revealed, shedding new light on where today’s children’s favorite toys come from. Readers will also learn about new efforts companies are making to provide their workers with fair wages and safe working conditions.

Tired of living in his brother Spencer's shadow, twelve-year-old Cameron Schein considers taking an unfair advantage to win the second Golly Toy and Game Company's Gollywhopper Games, in which the brothers and other children compete by solving puzzles, answering riddles, and doing stunts.

Provides step-by-step instructions for needle felting and wet felting of wool fibers to shape them into toys and small figures suitable for display.

Provides clear, simple instructions for making thirty wooden toys along with complete patterns.

Describes how to take ordinary discarded objects and fashion them into toys and games. Thirty activities include step-by-step instructions.