Easy - to - Make Old - Fashioned Toys
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Phantascopes, periscopes, and pinwheels — all intriguing novelties that captured the imagination of children in America and Europe several generations ago. Now with this well-illustrated how-to book, young and old alike can easily make any one of these and 35 other popular playthings that date back to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or earlier. In addition to fascinating background information on each toy, historians Eugene and Asterie Provenzo provide easy-to-follow directions and nearly 300 illustrations. Some objects are simple enough for a 6-year-old to make. Others will challenge older children and adults. You'll be able to turn ordinary soda straws into Pandea Pipes — an ancient musical toy. Perhaps you'll want to construct one of the earliest-known flying toys, the Helicopter-Parachute. With a flashlight, shoebox, and magnifying glass, you can build the fascinating Magic Lantern — used by showmen in an earlier era to conjure up ghosts. Or re-create any of these time-honored educational and entertaining playthings: Thaumatrope, Kite-Ferry, Tumbling Acrobat, Marble Maze, Boomerang, Buzz Saw, Floating Ball, Chromatrope Toys, Flip-Book, Balancing Man, Skyhook, Zoetrope, Moving Slides, Tumbler, Revolving Serpent, Microscope, Paper-Wrestlers, Bullroarer, and many more! Toys can be made with inexpensive materials found in most homes and schools: cardboard, string, tape, straws, scissors, hammer, pins, flashlight, etc. Handy and affordable, this volume is a marvelous book of fun projects — and a delight for anyone interested in toys from the past. Review: Favorite book! - I hope they keep printing this book. This is one of my favorite books for old time toys. This book is great for any parent who wants to make things with their kids. The instructions are great and easy to follow. Limited supplies are needed to make the contents in this book. Review: Good book, poor condition - I have no complaint about the quality of the book, but although I knew it was used, I didn’t realize it was so used. I was a little disappointed.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 14 Reviews |
M**R
Favorite book!
I hope they keep printing this book. This is one of my favorite books for old time toys. This book is great for any parent who wants to make things with their kids. The instructions are great and easy to follow. Limited supplies are needed to make the contents in this book.
H**M
Good book, poor condition
I have no complaint about the quality of the book, but although I knew it was used, I didn’t realize it was so used. I was a little disappointed.
B**L
Great book
This book has all kinds of good ideas. it also shows you how to make them. you can take from it what you what and leave the rest.
A**R
If only the people (kids) of the worls would slow down and do this instead of facebook.
If only the people (kids) of the worls would slow down and do this instead of facebook.
R**R
Very cool!
This book is really cool! It tells how to make a lot of stuff that kids love, out of simple things you have around the house. Many of them just need paper and scissors; patterns are included but you need to trace them. Scanning them and enlarging would work better but it's hard to lay the book flat enough to get a good copy. I hope if it ever gets reprinted they do so in a spiral-bound form! My son's favorite is the helicopter-parachute made from two strips of paper. You can make it in a jiffy and it works quite well.
A**L
recommended
fun, useful, suitable for both skilled handicraft workers, and novices..have tried some simple toys, will attempt the trickier ones over vacation...grandkids love it
M**E
Five Stars
love this book some good ideas
S**T
Five Stars
exerlent
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