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Home-made Toys for Girls and Boys : Wooden and Cardboard Toys, Mechanical and Electric Toys
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hall, A. Neely (Albert Neely), 1883-
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : multiple file formats
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,
- Summary:
- "Home-made Toys for Girls and Boys" by A. Neely Hall is a practical craft book written in the early 20th century. The publication focuses on guiding children in creating their own toys, using commonly available materials like wood and cardboard. It presents a range of projects, from simple pinwheels and kites to more complex structures like dollhouses and toy motorboats, encouraging creativity and resourcefulness. The opening of the book introduces its purpose and highlights the benefits of making toys at home, such as fostering creativity, prolonging engagement with playthings, and instilling a sense of accomplishment. Hall provides a motivational framework, asserting that the joy in toy-making lies as much in the creation process as in the resulting item. He aims to inspire children and their guardians to recognize that high-value toys can be handmade from inexpensive materials found around the home, setting the stage for the detailed, step-by-step instructions that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
- Contents:
- Home-made windmills
- Home-made kites
- A home-made model aeroplane
- A home-made toy motor-boat
- Home-made toy water-motors
- A home-made toy railway
- Home-made toy elevators
- Home-made mechanical toys
- Home-made tops
- Home-made clockwork toys
- Home-made electrical toy
- A home-made toy shooting gallery
- A home-made doll-house
- Furnishing the home-made doll-house
- A home-made doll apartment building
- Home-made doll furniture
- Home-made cigar-box toy
- Home-made spool and cardboard toys
- A home-made toy mail-box
- A home-made reflectoscope.
- Credits:
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Matthias Grammel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Notes:
- Reading ease score: 79.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
- Release date is 2012-12-20
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